Today is World AIDS Day. Hugs to my beautiful friend Adam who died in August of 2002. I spent the majority of the day holed up in the NCSU campus library, where I had hoped to get a key to one of the two Graduate Student Study Rooms, but both of them were booked all … Read more
I worked from home this morning, and dialed into a conference call from 12:00 to 1:00, which was lame. It was a “Professional Vitality Session” about Embedded User Help, but it was neither embedded nor helpful—discuss. The last ten minutes particularly sucked as they were doing Q&As, and you couldn’t hear half the questions and … Read more
One of my recent favorites from indexed blog: As Hugh over at Bible Versus says: Dolly Parton. And Amy Sedaris. Perfection. I had intended to go pick up my new glasses today, but since I want to go into the office tomorrow anyway, I decided to wait and get them then—seeing how my eye doctor’s … Read more
Today’s mail inspired a onesentence.org entry: Libra Baby The envelope in today’s mail that I thought was going to be my first Christmas card turned out, in fact, to be my last birthday card. Tags: belated | birthday | Christmas | Card A birthday card from my ex-wife, with a $50 iTunes gift certificate in it. … Read more
Just in case anyone needs a screen cleaner for their laptop or PC. Second thoughts, would work for a Mac, too. I was up at 8:30, after a refreshing twelve-hour sleep! After futzing around all morning, I finally made it out to the Cameron Village Library to do some studying. I decided to try this place … Read more
I got up at 9 this morning, and did ENG 515 Rhetoric of Science and Technology reading and devising my final three discussion board responses. I started off the final posting as follows: I’m not going to get all nostalgic and wistful thinking about how, remarkably, after randomly ending up reading this one of our three … Read more
I spent most of my day today at Helios, beginning the work on my final paper in ENG 515 Rhetoric of Science and Technology. Choose a controversial scientific or technological event, current or historical, and discuss it from a rhetorical standpoint. Find several different articles and analyze the audience, purpose, language, and so forth. On … Read more
I was up at 8:30 this morning, and worked from home on an edit for Brendan. I met Kevin (av8rdude) and Kurt for breakfast at Finch’s, which we all haven’t been to in some time. Right after we ordered, Kevin and Kurt’s friends Carl and Jay called to tell us they’d decide to join us after all. … Read more
I was up at 8:30, and I made coffee, cheddar scrambled eggs, sausage, and toast for Robert and me. I read the first of three articles for Rhetoric of Science and Technology, and then spent over an hour devising a response to the message board questions about this reading. Too long—both the time spent writing … Read more
I was up and at ’em early, determined to meet my goal of getting a heavy weight off my shoulders today. I caught the bus to campus and spent from 10:00AM to 7:00PM locked up in a graduate study room in the D.H. Hill Library, rewriting my first ENG 515 Rhetoric of Science and Technology paper, … Read more