glass working!! love it. i have found centering to be the hardest part of working the pottery wheel and am embracing the life metaphor that comes with that, along w the weirdness of the final product! here's a picture of a funky vase & cat food bowl i made a few weeks ago
I highly recommend accidentally ILL'ing a microfiche, thus getting to spend a little chunk of your Friday afternoon nerding out with the librarian who very graciously dug around and found an old portable machine in storage
If you ever get to Harrisburg, the newsroom in the capitol looks like it's straight out of a movie. (This portrait from '67 hung above my desk back there)
facebook reminding me today that though my path to grad school took a few odd twists and turns, at the end of the day, it's not a huge surprise i ended up here
How to make writing fun in the chatgpt era? Today, I'm taking a tip from my brother (a high school teacher) and starting my undergrad writing labs with an extremely weird warm-up: "Using exactly 9 words, write a description of this photograph."
This is a fun one. I asked 29,000 Americans how they primarily organize their books.
- 29% don't organize their books
- 22% sort by genre
- 19% alphabetize
- 3% sort by color
But it turns out this depends HEAVILY on how many books you own. My story: today.yougov.com/society/arti...
Reading the new NYT visual analysis of the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital blast and recalling this passage on hearsay from the proceedings of a 1991 public health conference: "...the higher authority has the final say, and the people suffer and the people die..." www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/w...
!! to be joining this all-star panel at SIGCIS. I'll be presenting my research on the 1939 NY World's Fair Voder operators. A timely project, imo: spectacular tech debuted to distract from rising fascism + corporate dreams of tech utopia + the quiet value of women's labor
