So I was just taking a break from marking and watching tv when I see this commercial on TV, and: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!
JESUS! I guess this is what I get for slacking off…
Archive for November, 2007
Watch/Don’t Watch This
Posted in Video on November 28, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Content
Posted in Love, Music on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Dearest Annotated Everything Reader
You will find me happily blogging about records over at http://sevententwelve.wordpress.com. I fully understand that a vinyl blog will have limited appeal to most of my regular readers here, and I’ve been having so much fun I keep forgetting about this place.
I’ve been in an increasingly better place this semester. Not [...]
Live Blogging: Stories, Texts and Technoscience (4)
Posted in Academic on November 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Verran: Science and an African Logic
1. Explaining away what is meant to be explained: Verran pushes you towards: “What is to be explained?” (Dorothy’s “What is the problematic?”) – who has what sort of problem? Starting with the problem explains away the interesting part, instead of eventually getting to the problem. This means rethinking [...]
Live Blogging: Stories, Texts and Technoscience (3)
Posted in Academic, tagged Art Frank, Methods, Sociology on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In methodology, three of the core areas
1) The question of “facts” – the way in which the word “finding” gets tossed about. In a literal sense – “what you find” or the activity of doing the findings. But in Fleck (or Latour), it is the “what are you producing”? What does “findings” imply – something [...]
Zombie-holocaust
Posted in Naveling on November 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hard Day’s Night of the Living Dead
Posted in Love on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My spring course
Posted in Academic on November 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
CRN: 10622
SOCI 3740 A The Sociology of Cyberspace 03-Jan-08 14-Apr-08 W 17:00-19:50 E630 Lawton P
NOTE: Partially reserved.
NOTE: Course designation: Social Science.
PREREQUISITE(S): One of a 2000-level course (3.0 credit hours) in Sociology or [Sociology 1000 and third-year standing (a minimum of 60.0 credit hours)]
EQUIVALENT: Sociology 3850 (Sociology of [...]
And I quote:
Posted in Hate on November 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I just got back from the dentist (again!), and let me say the following:
I do not enjoy a root canal.
You can quote me on that.
Of all the things to be embarassed about
Posted in Naveling on November 6, 2007 | 6 Comments »
At some point today, I was planning to go outside. It is now 7:15, in the PM, but it could be twointhemorning for all I care. I have been hard at work, but I am embarrassed to say that I will never have this day again.
Update: went outside, felt the oncoming winter, felt a bit [...]
More music for your (my?) Bejar fetish
Posted in Naveling on November 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Details have been announced on the upcoming Hello, Blue Roses album, that being the duo of Dan Destroyer Bejar and Sydney Hermant/Vermont. There is also going to be another split 7″ for early next year. Listen to this lovely offering: Shadows Fall.mp3
Then I just read about another Bejar side project called Bonaparte (three songs are [...]
Live Blogging: Stories, Texts and Technoscience (2)
Posted in Academic on November 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Construction of Social Reality (1995) by John Searle talks about the ontologically subjective (ie. baseball strikes), that which only makes sense as socially constructed; strikes count as strikes. Once you have the socially constructed “matrix,” then you have some objectivity.This brings us to the famous Thomas theorem, which says that if a person [...]
What day is it?
Posted in Internet Culture, tagged Christmas on November 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Is it Christmas?
Calgary Police brutality on Stephen Ave.
Posted in Calgary, tagged Calgary, Police Brutality on November 2, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Last night, the Square Waves played to a small crowd of Calgarians (30 in total?) who happened to be at the Broken City on a Thursday night, right between two major concerts (Bright Eyes the day before and Modest Mouse the day after). Far be it to be a judge of my own performance, but [...]
