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Orality and Literacy Chapters 1-4
Orality and Literacy is a 1988 book by Walter J. Ong. It is a discussion of the differences in thought patterns in “primary oral” cultures (those cultures without writing, or which have not yet internalized writing) and literate cultures. The first four chapters introduce the basic subject of study and focus on two things: 1) The ways that lack ( Read more... ) -
Reaction to the NYC Waterfalls
For those who aren’t familiar, and I suspect that’s true of many people, the NYC Waterfalls are a public art project. The basic construction is a scaffolding system with a set of pumps placed near the East River. Water is pumped up to the top of the scaffolding and allowed to fall. The effect is, in some ways, quite waterfall-like, hence the ( Read more... ) -
Physical Computing Lab 1
In less I hate the world news, here’s my first real project at ITP. Physical Computing Lab 1 is really more of a “get your feet wet” lab than anything else. The linked lab there is actually more complex than the one we actually were requested to execute.
We’re using the Arduino chipset and codebase for digital control, and the first project was ( Read more... ) -
Surprise! We want all your money!
Let me get the really fury-making part out of the way.
I checked my T-Mobile cell phone bill online today while I was going through a number of rather routine record-keeping things. Apparently I owe them $600+. All of which were accrued in August. See, back in May I purchased a new phone, a T-Mobile Dash. I’ve been very pleased with the ( Read more... ) -
A quick update for those watching from home
It’s been a while, huh? Well, I figured I’d run an update so that people could catch up with what’s going on with me these days.
Back at the beginning of the month I successfully got moved into my apartment in Brooklyn with some cool roommates. So far it’s been quite a good experience.
Yesterday classes at ITP started, and they started well. My ( Read more... ) -
Let’s do this thing
Current plans are for me to be on the road at 06:00 en route to Houston, TX. That should have me pulling in right around 17:00 or so. Man… I’m pumped.
I’ve got my phone, I’ll be checking my email along the way. You know how to get in touch with me.
Don’t forget to check the crazy roadtrip website (which I hope to have actually bug-free soon) for ( Read more... ) -
Blog migration complete
I have managed to import my entire LiveJournal archive into this blog. While I couldn’t get the tag structure copied (because LiveJournal’s export feature sucks and doesn’t support tag exports apparently) I did get comments and everything else. With that done I’ll be moving my base of operations to here. I’ll still be cross-posting to my ( Read more... ) -
A door closes, looking ahead
Today has been a day of change in many ways. Let’s go through those, shall we?
First of all, today was my last day at work. While my resignation doesn’t officially kick in until Saturday, and while I do have to go pick up a paycheck tomorrow, I’m no longer on the schedule and I’m not on call. While it’s conceivable that someone might want me to ( Read more... ) -
Life, it does go on
In addition to being a post about my day this is also the first test of me using a cross-posting utility to post to a WordPress blog and my LiveJournal at the same time. We’ll see how that goes.
Took two of my four exams today, and now those are out of the way. They were for two of my less stimulating classes, both in the sociology department. I ( Read more... ) -
Huh... I don't feel any different
Today marked the last meeting of a class of my undergraduate career. I presented my final project in Web Applications with XML and JSP today. The project is actually something I'm pretty excited about, and I'll probably talk about it more soon since it's part of my plans for the road trip this summer. That's for later though, for now I thought I ( Read more... )