I just watched Shut Up and Sing, and I’m blogging to recommend it. The Dixie Chicks went through a lot after that fateful concert in the U.K., and the film chronicles much of that. After watching the film, I have a deeper appreciation for their latest album – Taking the Long Way. The songs...
Read more →The sun finally came out this weekend in Michigan, and it was a balmy 65+ degrees for 3 whole days! I used the weekend to indulge in two of summer’s affordances – baseball and ice cream. Friday night I went to my first MLB game of the season – Chicago White Sox at Detroit...
Read more →I gave in and picked up a BlackBerry Pearl yesterday. I was wandering around the Twelve Oaks Mall waiting for my friend to finish her cookie so we could go into the Apple store and pick up my ailing MacBook. Back to that in a sec, first the BlackBerry. So, this Pearl is HOT....
Read more →I took a class taught by Karl Weick during the Fall 2006 term. I can’t remember the title of the class, but I know it was MO 700. I’ll call it “MO.” MO and I were instant friends. The reading list was interesting; the course discussions were, for the most part, thoughtful. And Karl...
Read more →I’ve gotten back into the habit of buying a Sunday New York Times and picking my way through it. This morning, while hustling on the eliptical trainer at the Ann Arbor YMCA I read an article in the Magazine that made my $5 purchase a bargain. Thomas L. Friedman wrote The Power of Green,...
Read more →My dissertation proposal threatens me. When I use an alarm clock and end up hitting “snooze,” it haunts my snooze time. It looms over my waking hours, mocking me with its shape-shifting. Writing in Word has proven ineffective, and so, I’ll try some stream-of-consciousness right here on my blog. I think my dissertation will...
Read more →Go Hawks! Welcome to the Hawkeye family, Lickliter. Well, I’m not really family, but kinda. Anyway, doesn’t matter. I love the Hawkeyes, and I’m glad we have a new coach.
Read more →The public library in my modestly-size hometown had a cat. Apparently, his biography’s going to be big. Check out what the New York Times had to say about it. You can also learn more about Dewey Readmore Books. He was a lovely kitty, and I enjoyed hanging out with him at the Spencer Public...
Read more →That’s right, ladies and gents, I’m approved! Ron, my good buddy at Quicken Loans, took me from “I wonder if I could buy a house” to “You are approved to shop for homes under $LARGE SUM” in under 2 hours. Whoa. According to my Google Spreadsheet, I’ve looked at 26 properties for rent, and...
Read more →I’ve been struggling to articulate my frustrations with social software and community technologies, and I’ve finally found an article that helped me immensely. (Thank you, Sean Munson, for sending me the paper!) What’s bothered me is how anti-social so many examples of social software seem to be. They seemed to employ, as Paul Dourish...
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