2009 06 01 tweets
Headed to DC, trip 1 of 2 this month. Worst security backlog I've seen at ONT in ages, but things finally moved. Should be on time.
TSA doing random secondary screenings at gate at IAH. More visible police presence here & at ONT. Do they suspect something in AF flight?
Oh, man, the eastern time zone just kicks my ass every single time.
Replying to @cnearman
Hey, thanks! Such nice thinks to say just when I was planning on tweeting my hotel restaurant versus room service dilemma...
DCA>IAH>ONT. Excellent trip, and great time spent at NEH, but happy to be headed home. \(Which has nothing to do with the Wii waiting there\.\)
Replying to @barbarahui
I ordered that - it's waiting for me at home! I expect to be up all night...
Sitting here in IAH during a long layover just goofing off. And feeling guilty about it. That's an overdeveloped work ethic right there.
Replying to @plragde
Am goofing around on the free wifi. I usually work really well on planes, since it's the one place no one can get ahold of me.
Have been taxiing from gate to runway for 30 min. At least 15 planes ahead of us still. Don't they know I have a Wii to get home to?
Hey, you'll never guess what I had waiting for me when I got home last night!
Replying to @nancybaym
A Wii! If only someone could invent a package that translates Wii usage into writing productivity. Maybe using the balance board.
Replying to @cscannella
Zelda, Super Mario Galaxy, Rayman Raving Rabbids, Okami, and Wii Fit. Will get World of Goo soon!
A puzzle: when I bought dig. camera, it came with a tiny SD card; bought a larger one & swapped out. Extra SD card now nowhere to be found.
Vaguely remembering buying some other device that needed an SD card, and recycling - but what device? Completely baffled.
The good news: SD cards now insanely cheap.
Replying to @briancroxall
Wow, that's very cool. I was just thinking storage, but I'll keep this in mind for the next camera!
Replying to @therefore
Want to make some kind of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind joke. Instead I'll just wonder if the iPhone/rice trick wd work.
Do not feel like working. Does my massively sore throat justify spending the rest of the day playing?
Whatever amusement value this cold may have held has long since worn off. Knock it off, sinuses; I have thinking to do.
Oh, and PS: I live on the edge of the desert. It has rained every day for a week. In June. I'm not complaining but it does raise questions.
Replying to @mikejolk
Indeed! The Newton: a technology whose time has \(finally\) come.
Replying to @cscannella
Tethering is built into iPhone 3.0, so usable with any updated iPhone.
Replying to @briancroxall and @jbj
True, but the MacRumors guys took that as a "not yet" rather than a "not." I'm hoping for sooner rather than later.
Replying to @jbj
Well, crap. I guess I chose to hear it in both cases. That's what good optimism does me.
Replying to @noradio
Whoa.
RT @noradio: "Existing AT&T customers who want to upgrade...price with a new two-year agreement is $499 \(8GB\), $599 \(16GB\), or $699 \(32GB\)."
As a valued AT&T customer, we can offer you a discounted iPhone upgrade at a higher price, along with a 2-yr commitment & $18 upgrade fee...
...You may qualify for a full discount on a standard iPhone upgrade on 01/16/2010." Hmph.
No surprise that "as a valued AT&T customer" is a dangling clause. Somebody really needs a primer on the definition of "to value."
PS: I also love the "discounted upgrade at higher price" versus "full discount on standard upgrade."
Replying to @j_l_r
I think 18 months is the charm...
RT @mediacommons: Media studies folks: Have a great blog? Or know of one? We'd like to include it in "In Syndication." Contact for more info
Horrible disgusting cold seems to be well along on the snot-to-phlegm transition. TMI, no doubt, but it's cause for celebration on my end.
In the last 5 min: I figured out what the chapter I'm writing is about. And then realized that's what the entire book is about. Head rush!
I now owe @mkirschenbaum dinner. Thanks for inadvertently helping me figure it out!
Replying to @mkirschenbaum
Very much look forward to smashing crabs! Fear this realization may change my @dh09 pres a bit, tho. Okay, deep breath...
@JenServenti Not as bitter as my former student who just found out the newest Real World house is a block from her apartment, I'd wager. :)
Replying to @JenServenti
Oh, hey. I read the first one! See, if you guys had had "dorm rooms like palaces," you might have been featured, too.
Replying to @jwolman
Dowdy like PALACES, you mean.
Just to let you know, the grand what's-it-all-about revelation has now resulted in 5 pages of awesome new text. In case you were wondering.
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
Insofar as I am surprised, it is only pleasantly so, at the sudden ease. Nice to remember how much fun writing can be.
Replying to @xina
Will do! \(And thanks for the cheers \- I can use them\.\)
Excited for everyone involved in @infinitesummer. Having just emerged from InfiniteSpringDoublePlus, I'm cheering from the sidelines.
Crud. Was going to include link to last semester's class \(http://bit\.ly/DmRFV\) in last tweet, but hosting provider has hosed WPmu.
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
plannedobsolescence.net is hosted @Dreamhost & is fit & fine! machines.pomona.edu is, alas, not, not, and not.
Okay, InfiniteSpring is now once again available \(http://bit\.ly/DmRFV\) for your @infinitesummer perusal. Turns out to have been hacked. Grr.
Have 6.5 page introduction to new chapter. Also have lots of research to do for rest of chapter. But man it feels good to be writing again!
Replying to @ndnous
Not off the top of my head - can you give me more info? Title/journal/full author name?
Replying to @d_kompare
Sadly, no. Her upkeep is both labor- and time-intensive.
Just finished widgetizing the blog theme. Now to break everything again by upgrading to WP 2.8.
Wow. I've had Twitter Tools running in my WP install tho posts are turned off. Just found *all* my tweets in my WP db. Effortless archiving!
Okay, operation update-all-the-web-software-to-discourage-the-butthead-miscreants is complete. I guess I have to go back to real work now.
A bit of research accomplished. Annual report draft completed. Big pot of gumbo on the stove. Not a bad Saturday, on the whole.
Replying to @billwolff
Yes - my #wordpress 2.8 is without timezone support as well. A puzzlement.
Replying to @jcmeloni and @billwolff
I did automatic update; I wonder if that's the culprit. #wordpress
Replying to @billwolff and @jcmeloni
Could be. I'll try turning off plugins one at a time and see if that's it. But my settings appear exactly as in 2.7...
Replying to @billwolff and @jcmeloni
...which makes me think it's something that failed to auto-update.
Replying to @billwolff
Oh, hey - just spotted a forum issue that sounds like yours: http://bit.ly/l9FVx - no answer yet, but something not right there.
Replying to @billwolff
That's no good! Figured out my problem: timezone support requires PHP5.2, which my host claims to be running, but isn't...
Replying to @billwolff
Okay, forced an upgrade to PHP5.2, and timezone support now appears as advertised. I hope your issues work out!
Replying to @billwolff
The @DreamHost settings panel thought it was running 5.2.x. I hit "submit" as if I had changed settings, which somehow did it.
Replying to @billwolff
Probably if yours claims 5.2.9, it's really running. You might try this test, tho: http://bit.ly/2UnIC6
New blog post: Ambivalence http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/ambivalence/
Replying to @KTBoyer
Indeed! \(God, was that class ten years ago?\!? Time flies\.\)
The strangest [almost] sequence of tweets I've gotten, as follows:
\(1\) RT @wmrandth: Anyone know this film name? Plot is: man comes from South America & works as janitor in LA, then becomes succesful teacher
followed by \(2\) RT @mikhailg: Criterion Collection edition of Videodrome. Want.
Brain just exploded.
Replying to @alechosterman
Thanks - I was wondering where that landed. :)
New blog post: This Week http://bit.ly/1ajYiJ
One of the best things about making gumbo? Leftovers. Truly a better-the-second-day food.
Replying to @kakennedy
Congratulations!
Spent all morning on project find-hacks-and-patch-holes. I think I've finally got them; the flood of spam-driven inbound links has stopped.
Replying to @cluettron
HEY. I resemble that remark!
Hey - anybody have a sample @scholarpress courseware site I can peek at? Would like to see it in action!
New blog post: And Then This Week http://bit.ly/ZJ93t
In the last few mins, folks in NYC, Auckland, and Amsterdam have found my teaching site by googling "hypermediation." Is something up?
My flt to DCA tmw gets in at 5pm; Metro to UMD abt 6pm; then cab to Marriott. Prob too late for LM talk, but hope to make reception. #dh09
Replying to @mamamusings
Wow. That's ambitious. Are you using a mail client that can help? Will look forward to hearing how it turns out.
Updating all the portable devices for the trip. Next: prepare house for departure, reserve cab, pack. Digital first, analog after. :) #dh09
Just... wow. RT @ErikaJL: Buffy FTW!!! http://bit.ly/px9YI "Buffy Shuts Down Edward Cullen In The Best Clip Ever" #btvs #twilight
At the airport and through security by 4.45 am. This is the only thing I hate about living on the west coast.
Okay, slept on the first flight; need to work on this one. Either that or I'll be finishing my presentation in the hotel room tonight. #dh09
okay, I'm here, but killed my battery on the plane. must go in search of power outlet. #dh09
Yay, Matt! @mkirschenbaum with last info & intro before Manovich plenary. #dh09
Replying to @xina
That's not hard for me to understand, but it might be worth a second look...
Replying to @xina
And *that* I understand even better, I assure you. :)
Stupid jetlag: after 3.5hrs sleep night b4 last, up until 2am, completely overslept & missed 1st panel. Happily, it got good coverage! #dh09
In #dh09 panel, "Supporting the DH"; presentation from Steven Krauwer on CLARIN & ways the project could fail - not always expected ways.
Keep getting kicked off network - not wireless, but authentication. What gives?
Potentials for failure: lack of agreement on standards, lack of financial support, ignoring content evolution #dh09
And the key ingredient is STANDARDS. #dh09
Replying to @JenServenti
NEH: your national chocolate provider.
Chad Kainz: in DH projects, 1/3 time spent on scholarship, 2/3 spent on technology - how to bring resources together to shift balance? #dh09
Curious whether there are other small liberal arts college folks at #dh09; will confess to having serious R1 envy now. I want a DH center!
@fraistat on building network of DH centers; good thinking about making it inclusive, but what about smaller institutions w/o ctrs? #dh09
Replying to @nowviskie
Good to know - thanks! #dh09
I want to find ways to foster partnerships between such smaller institutions that can't found ctrs and existing DH ctrs #dh09
Replying to @jtheibault
We'll have to meet up! Would love to hear what you're doing...
Replying to @jasonrhody
I hope to apply for one of these for 2010-11, but need the partnership in place, as app has to originate with center, no? #dh09
Replying to @ddchamberlain
Absolutely! Let's find a time to get together once I'm back in SoCal; would love to hear what you're working on. #dh09
Grr. RT @profhood The college of 2020? http://bit.ly/Mm8yF Want full report? $75 for 50pp "paper" digital report. Fail. http://bit.ly/17179k
About to present on the future of the university press in the Jimenez room. #dh09
Replying to @amandafrench
Thanks! Laptop's Internet connex has failed so will have to catch up once I can get back on. iPhone too unwieldy! #dh09
Anybody other than me lose their Internet connection? Got kicked off and can't get back on. Was it something I said? #dh09
Replying to @stoton
Hey, thanks for that! Great pres, by the way - definitely want to talk Drupal with you..
Man, what a day. Crashing now, so that I might actually make the 9 am session tomorrow. Wish me luck!
Critical Code Studies/Software Studies about to begin in the Carroll room. #dh09
Super-cool wordle cloud of yesterday's #dh09 tweets by @jawalsh: http://bit.ly/u7fZs
Noah Wardrip-Fruin: Venn diagram #2: persuasive games as subset of procedural rhetoric, which is subset of expressive processing #dh09
NW-F's analysis of Goldwater machine shows processes are themselves imbued with ideology, rather than ideology being resident in data #dh09
Jeremy Douglass: distinction btw source & NLP raises question of what's interpreted in crit code studies - the code or the compiler? #dh09
Jeremy Douglass on spatial metaphors of patch-based programming: "the graph of the code is the code." #dh09
Liz Losh: is DH about heritage preservation or facilitating cultural change? #dh09
Technical difficulty in the Carroll room; Liz Losh proceeding brilliantly anyhow! #dh09
New blog post: The Hybrid Future of the University Press http://bit.ly/18Ws1t
Replying to @CatinStack
I'm sorry you're not here too, Cathy! Thanks for the RT, and hope to cross paths with you soon.
Replying to @sramsay and @triproftri
it's a common issue in media studies: you know how to read, but you read differently if you've had to make sthg #dh09
Gah! Again, have lost Internet connex; today, no combo of cache clearing, DHCP lease renewing, or machine rebooting will get it back. Grrr.
Hmm. Switching networks \(to one we're not supposed to be using\) did it. My laptop has gone rogue.
Replying to @janineutell
It's due to the press in Aug; print will take a while, but there'll be a CommentPress version soon! #dh09
@ericzinner Well, it's about time!
Hey, so who's smashing crabs with me? #dh09
Replying to @mkirschenbaum
Woo-hoo! Congrats, and well deserved!
Replying to @digitalhumanist
in defense of the code studies folks: they didn't say that; only made one off-hand joke about *not* needing to be a coder!
Replying to @digitalhumanist
The rest all came from folks not in the room, who picked up on a second-hand report of the joke.
Kretzschmar: library as only realistic option for long-term sustainability of large DH projects in university setting. #dh09
\(Though I'd push again for press/library/IT center collaborations around such projects\!\) #dh09
Replying to @TheRepoRat
Hmmm. Let me ponder and get back to you. :) #dh09
Replying to @jtheibault
Where they're so obviously allied with a disc. society, absolutely! Reliance on any single institution makes me nervous... #dh09
...The qs raised about retirement/death of PI, etc, seem exactly right. When should projects have independent external URI/hosting? #dh09
Hitting the wall - could really use a nap, but today's a packed day. Suspect I'll collapse early tonight.
New blog post: Checked Your Privacy Settings Lately? http://bit.ly/RPP03
S. Moulthrop: is the irruption of social media the cultural analogue of the financial crisis? #dh09
S. Moulthrop: from information tools to informed environments. #dh09
S. Moulthrop: post-media informed environments will require new kinds of environmentalists #dh09
S. Moulthrop: future DH ironically literate, amphibian \(in new systems but not fully immersed\), technically engaged \(ready to hack\) #dh09
Replying to @amandafrench
Uh-oh. Must be sure to appear focused. #dh09
Matt Kirschenbaum's Mechanisms name-checked by Steven Jones talking about Spore. #dh09
Re-corrected RT @GeorgeOnline: Matt K's *two-time* award-winning Mechanisms name-checked by Steven Jones talking about Spore. :) #dh09
Replying to @clioweb
Rumor has it that if you figure out how to get the safe open, ODH'll split whatever's in it with you. #dh09
Replying to @mkirschenbaum
Me too. The only solution is beer.
Replying to @mkirschenbaum and @veek
I suspect that something can be arranged!
Some of us are at the Thirsty Turtle, if you'd like to hoist a glass... #dh00
Replying to @chutry
LA Times has it now; looks like it might be true.
Replying to @jeremydouglass
Hey, backatcha - sorry I missed you before you left. See you on the left coast, I hope.
Replying to @Kylewarneck
Poor Sanford - 48 hours early.
No no no no no no - you cannot take my entire childhood away from me all at once: http://bit.ly/tCVlw
One of the best things I've done as a prof was introduce Cronkite as our commencement speaker in 2004. Sending my thoughts to his family.
The plan: mtg here in MD tomorrow at 2; then metro to ViennaMU, cab to Hampton Inn. Any #thatcamp-ers headed to Auld Shebeen around 6?
That's Vienna/GMU, of course, not multi-user Vienna - though the idea's an interesting one. #thatcamp
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
I'm staying there too - on the metro now & will be in shortly. Have to miss meetup, alas; it's at Auld Shebeen.
Replying to @digitalhumanist
How ling do you think you'll be there? About to head out from DC...
@digitalhumanist By which I meant to ask how LONG you'll be there, but couldn't correct before entering the metro blackout zone.
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
So where are you at this point? Almost to Fairfax & trying to decide where to have the cab take me...
Replying to @jasonrhody
You are not kidding.
Replying to @kfitz
Ugh. So Chain Bridge Rd & !??
Replying to @GeorgeOnline
Dunno how I managed to reply myself. Will hope to see you there.
Replying to @kfitz
Fab dinner tonight in the 1950s version of the future, w/ @GeorgeOnline, @jbj, @briancroxall, & @alxjrvs. Looking fwd to tomorrow! #thatcamp
At GMU, awaiting the start of #thatcamp. Amazing to see so many great folks here!
Getting a rundown of the #thatcamp ethos. Very, very excited about this: undoing many of the things wrong with academic comferences.
Replying to @halavais
Very sorry you're not here, too! #thatcamp
Replying to @plragde
No self-aggrandisement: no reading papers that say "here's how smart I am"; no questions after that say "here's how dumb you are."
Replying to @plragde
Most brilliant part so far: very short lunchtime demos; at 3 mins, you get played off by keyboard cat.
Was too anxious abt time to be clear, so will reiterate: we're actively seeking contributions @mediacommons http://bit.ly/17K3VV #thatcamp
Replying to @nowviskie
I'm definitely bringing that to the program committee of the MLA :) #thatcamp
@sramsay The Cohen thesis: "I feel the 'digital' will fade from 'humanities' over time." #thatcamp
Replying to @briancroxall
Which camp? #thatcamp
Really want to know what theme your Drupal e-lit class is using, @zachwhalen - very nice! #thatcamp
Replying to @sramsay and @foundhistory
because much of that group is housed in other depts \(German, English, etc\) despite studying media objects? #thatcamp
Replying to @sramsay
True - but it's also necessary to say you're DH if you study new media because non-DH grantors haven't funded it in past. #thatcamp
Replying to @zachwhalen
Thanks! I really want to poke at your set-up more; you've built great content types and views; very exciting. #thatcamp
It's nearly 5 pm. Do you know where your beers are? #thatcamp
AXE \(Ajax XML Encoder\): http://bit.ly/14vgac ; AXE white paper: http://bit.ly/RpJHl #thatcamp
Replying to @briancroxall and @boonebgorges
Rats! I wanted to see that demo. Bad schedule metadata. :( #thatcamp
Anybody know what the upshot of the Software Development panel in the next session is? #thatcamp
Replying to @joguldi and @mattthomas
Yes, mostly note-taking and organization, inspired by Steven Johnson: http://bit.ly/GT7lA #thatcamp
Replying to @mattthomas
Oh, excellent stuff - thanks! \(I particularly need the scripting info\.\.\.\) #thatcamp
Sfizi Cafe closed on Sun. Next option?
Replying to @bboessen
Thanks for the rec; we found our way to another \(open\) Italian place, so all was well!
At DCA awaiting my flight home from #dh09 and #thatcamp. It's been an amazing week but I look forward to being home so I can process it all!
Replying to @eboehnisch
I did, mostly just sharing my workflow and organizational/searching strategies, which are pretty simple. It's a great product!
Replying to @sramsay
Hey, have I got a book project for you! http://bit.ly/C5zdR - ms hopefully available by early fall.
Replying to @sramsay
Thanks so much! Once the project's out \(also in trad\. print format for provost/dean\-gifting\) I plan on putting together a roadshow.
Replying to @sramsay
There are a very few who are starting to get it, but yes, there's an overwhelming reluctance to change there.
@sramsay Glad they're being forced to hear the "change or die" message. Here's hoping the former happens before the latter.
Replying to @sramsay
Hey, good luck with that. If it works, let me know how you pulled it off. I've mostly kept my bomb-tossing confined to conferences.
Pretty much done unpacking the new office. For a basement, it's pretty flash. http://yfrog.com/0t57881378j
Office view #2. http://yfrog.com/0ypovj
Office view #3. Note the fire alarm; used to be a classroom. I do not eagerly await the first fire drill. http://yfrog.com/15w5oj
Replying to @kfitz
~@jmittell It's unbecoming, I admit. But the previous office was off the charts gorgeous. I'm happy this one is starting to feel like home.
Replying to @fearv
I'm sure we can arrange something.
Replying to @jasonrhody
Well, now that you've posted this it's clouded over, but yeah. We're actually only half-underground, which makes it much better.
Replying to @triproftri
We all deserve such an office! I'm just lucky that my former chair defended the building so fiercely during the last renovation.
Replying to @jmittell
Don't give them any ideas!
Replying to @academicdave
Do they include "at hard labor" in sentences anymore? If there were ever a case that deserved it...
Replying to @bighandsome
Heh. Happily, it's not that basement, despite the allure of bar proximity. I just moved two floors downstairs.
Replying to @themba
Thanks! I look forward to testing the couch out soon.
Replying to @jwolman
It's the only way to bookmark things like links you want to come back and read later.
Replying to @tmcphers
In that order?
Drinks to toast my last day in the English department, spent as the first day working in my Media Studies office. Tomorrow, a whole new day.