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Things fall apart, Patton: or Phill Plays a Lot of Mortal Kombat

April 21, 2011 phillUncategorized

A while back I read an essay by one of my favorite comics, Patton Oswalt, in Wired, one of my favorite publications. In it, Oswalt laments the death of the geek and the emergence of[…]

Did you think they weren't Skynet already? or Apple tracks your movement with the iPhone/iPad/iWhatever

April 21, 2011 phillUncategorized

I had a political science professor who used to say, about the separation of public and private life, “your privacy ends at my nose.” I love you, Dr. K, and I miss you, but I[…]

The 2011 AT&T Faculty Award for Exemplary Uses of Technology in Teaching and Learning: or: "My Award, plz to look?"

April 19, 2011 phillUncategorized

Today I officially received my 2011 AT&T Faculty Award for exemplary uses of technology in teaching and learning for the CMS I designed for my WRA 210 class (and my WRA 110 from the fall[…]

Black Swan: I wanted it to be better than it was.

April 17, 2011 phillUncategorized

So I just did what grad students do on Sunday afternoons– I ordered pizza and PPVed Black Swan. I’d like to thank Comcast for putting the ability to see a movie right at my lazy[…]

Imitation of Life

April 17, 2011 phillUncategorized

One day, I say, today, we live like a…

April 16, 2011 phillUncategorized

Why the world needs us: Or "Did You See That?"

April 15, 2011 phillUncategorized

If anyone has actually become a regular reader, I’m sorry for the delay in posting today– it’s actually tomorrow, and I’ll end up doing two Friday posts, but Wednesday and Thursday of this week didn’t[…]

"Metal Effin' Arms, like Tang," or Let My Machine Talk For Me

April 13, 2011 phillUncategorized

There’s this silly/creepy scene in the god awful Teminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles series that is probably ALL the series did right. Here it is: Out of context, the scene probably makes no sense at[…]

We Make Everything — Though I hate "theory of everything" theories…

April 4, 2011 phillUncategorized

Today I was in the kitchen, cleaning up after having made some bread. My mother was making a pitcher of iced tea. I noticed that unlike usual, she added something. So I asked her “what’s[…]

On Wrestlemania Sunday– I try to defend professional wrestling

April 3, 2011 phillUncategorized

As academics, I think many of us face a struggle I have faced for a while now; it’s hard to stay “normal’ in the eyes of the working class people you grew up with. It’s[…]