I started keeping a time sheet. Results for today: Preparing teaching: 1:22 hrs (web design course, grad students’ writing group) Administration: 6:24 hrs (meetings, email, drafting memo, phone calls) Research: 10 minutes (writing this blog post) Total: 7:56 hrs, which is 26 […]

I just spent four solid hours head-of-departmenting, and my to-do list for tomorrow is still long as my arm. For tonight, too, actually. I haven’t even started on the teaching to-do list. What heads of departments do? Well, today I’ve tried to […]

Deborah Wheeler is a visiting researcher at our university this semester, and tomorrow she’s giving the first of a series of lectures that looks really interesting, on “Identity and Ethics in Global Internet Diffusion”. The series is run as a grad seminar […]

This looks like utter fun: a 15 hour circuitbending workshop where the goal is to, well, break electronic toys in ways that produce fabulous sounds. I wish I could go, but fifteen hours, a week of afternoons, is far too much. Which […]

I love it when I forget that I submitted something and then I get a letter of acceptance! My paper on distributed narrative, the revised, 10 page version of what I presented at AoIR in September, has been accepted for publication in […]

Jamie Blustein alerted me to the cover story of the latest issue of Interactions, ACM’s magazine, which is by Jim Miller and about immersive gaming and storytelling. Here’s the abstract: if you’re lucky your library or university might have a subscription and […]

Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. –Walker Evans

Torill alerts me to our nomination for best tech blog in the European Weblog Awards! Or the Satin Pyjama awards. European Weblog Awards would look better on the CV, but, ya know, just being nominated is flattering in itself. Actually, nominations can […]

You know that thing that now you shouldn’t use www. at the start of a domain name anymore? It’s a W3C standard, I’m sure, but I can’t find it on their site. Can you help me?

Wow. I’m probably going to end up head of our (quite small) department from next week or so. There’ll be an election, but no other candidates. There simply isn’t anyone else who can do it right now. It’s going to be a […]