My birthday is this Wednesday. And I’m throwing a little party the following Saturday. Because of this people seem to feel a need to reciprocate in some way, and continue to ask me for some sort of wishlist or ideas for what I should be needing or wanting. Generally, I feel that I’m quite well [...]
As part of my Digital Rhetorics course, we’ll be expected to undertake several “Depth Probes”, exploring the dank deeps of internet, maybe, hopefully, finding something of interest. As a starting point, the lecturer has added a few links to our online schedule. These can be considered doors, each opening into a different part of a [...]
- Avast! Ye landlubbers – avast! Belay thy needless moaning! Thar be a fine booty to be ‘ad, and we may yet fill our coffers wi’ plunder!! Aarrrh, me maties! Man the riggin’, unfurl them thar sails and set a leeward course! …oh, and happy “Talk Like a Pirate Day” to you, too.
By the wondrous ways of procrastinative web-surfing, I came across the work of Raymond Smullyan, mathematician, writer and, rarely seen, genuinely humorous. I can’t appreciate the maths much, but the philosophical humour is spot-on. I’ve only read this one piece called “Is God a Taoist?“, which cheekily tackles the big questions of free will, morality [...]
I went to a demo tonight arranged mainly by the Danish chapter of CIRCA – an abbreviation for the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army. The Danish chapter is called Klovnehæren which is a direct translation of “the Clown Army” and they’ve been trying to brighten the mood in Christiania, the hippie township commune of Copenhagen [...]
So, the new semester has started, and my courses are well underway. I’m taking my final anthropology course – Field Method – the purpose of which will be to prepare me (and help me prepare) for my exciting fieldwork next year. The specifics of this mythical fieldwork is still not completely clear, but it will [...]
As part of my Digital Rhetorics course at the IT University of Copenhagen, I’ve written this little assignment on my personal goals for the course. Since it is a Digital Rhetorics class, I thought it best to do it proper blogging style with lots of hyperlinks. Fast forward to January 2006, the Digital Rhetorics course [...]