2013 09 01 tweets
Hey, the chat I had with @crsbecker and @DearStefania about DH, media studies, and the state of the humanities is up: http://cultureinconversation.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/the-state-of-the-humanities-exploring-digital-humanities-and-media-studies/
Tonight: the famous @ProfHacker pulled pork, fresh corn, double-garlicked collards, gazpacho. A feast to send off an incredible summer.
Replying to @jwolman
I was thinking the same thing: I might be able to recover some things I had to get rid of in my last move!
RT @4Hum: A fantastic conversation from .@kfitz, .@crsbecker, & .@DearStefania on DH, media studies, public humanities, & more: http://t.co…
Day 2 of @ProfHacker special pulled pork; even better than the first. Thanks, @briancroxall!
I will also note that the last two nights of Jersey corn have me wondering why I haven’t eaten an ear of corn at every meal for weeks now,
Replying to @TheAtlantic
Looks like theatln.tc has expired?
Ahem: http://news.commons.mla.org/2013/09/04/free-mla-job-information-list-to-launch-this-month/
Replying to @wynkenhimself
Pretty awesome, eh? I am, however, just one member of a team full of awesome here.
RT @rgfeal: Massive applause starts with the MLA Executive Council, which made it happen. Remember this, members who vote! @briancroxall @k…
Replying to @briancroxall
Ooh, I just got to be one of the bearers of good news, is all. One member of a fab team.
Replying to @mkgold
Hey, check @briancroxall’s update: the Job List will be free to *all* users. Also, applause to the Executive Council, not me!
Remember @wynkenhimself’s post about negotiating a better contributor’s contract? I found that post helpful today. http://sarahwerner.net/blog/index.php/2012/08/a-new-contributors-contact/
Also, I got soundly publishersplained about the purposes of copyright this morning. *rolls up sleeves*
Replying to @LibSkrat
It was very hard not to go back with YOU CLEARLY DO NOT KNOW WHO I AM.
Hey, so who is #dtc375? Nice tweeting, y’all.
Replying to @rogerwhitson, @triproftri, @briancroxall and @foundhistory
Very cool exercise. My words came back with a certain alienated majesty!
It’s been a crazy day, but full of awesome: @katinalynn has joined us here at @MLACommons! Great things will be coming your way soon.
High of 87 today. 92 tomorrow. Early September just reminding us who’s boss.
Also, a moment’s whining about #insomnia: being utterly awake until 4 am, despite being exhausted, does not make for a cheerful 7 am.
Replying to @katinalynn and @karikraus
I have an office sweater and an office fleece blanket. Somedays it’s still not enough. *sigh*
Replying to @amandafrench, @nowviskie and @rgfeal
I’m so sad about this. Clearly I haven’t been paying much attention lately either.
Replying to @karikraus and @mkgold
And how many others have just been drifting away.
My day nearly concluded with a heart-stopping, eye-twitch inducing moment of thinking I’d made a colossal mistake & had no way to recover. +
A colleague, however, has saved my bacon. #icanandwillfindthebourbon
Mmmm. Bacon.
Replying to @eetempleton
Alas, that may *be* your super power. \(Mine is making people stroll directly into my path as I walk down the street\.\)
RT @MLACommons: #MLA members, please share your comments about a new proposal for MLA groups at http://groupsdiscussion.commons.mla.org/.
#MLA members: Be sure your voice is heard! Comment on the draft proposal for the future of MLA groups. http://groupsdiscussion.commons.mla.org/
The MLA is hiring a senior web developer. Come help shape the association’s online future! http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/39656/senior-web-developer-modern-language-association
Why revise the #MLA group structure now, what are the most significant changes, and other frequently asked questions: http://groupsdiscussion.commons.mla.org/faq/
Replying to @miriamkp
Very cool! Congrats!
For the p.m. crowd: The MLA is hiring a senior web developer. Come help shape the association’s online future! http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/39656/senior-web-developer-modern-language-association
Fantastic visit to Lehigh U today. Very excited to hear how the English department is imagining its work.
Replying to @jenna_lay
Fantastic talking with you as well! Thanks for a great discussion.
Just ended an excellent visit to Lehigh U; heading on to Rochester for #decodingURoch!
That whole going to Rochester thing? May have spoken too soon.
This situation just continues to improve.
Replying to @surlyF
C’est moi.
Replying to @lnakamur
I was supposed to be in at 5. Will now not be in until 10. May not make it to breakfast, but will keep you posted.
Prepare for a barrage of whining.
1. Flight from ABE to PHL delayed due to unspecified mechanical issues. Will miss connection to ROC. Booked on next ROC flt, 5 hours later.
2. Flight from ABE to PHL continues to be delayed, so much so that they’ve hired a bus to drive us there instead. Everybody to ticketing.
3. Everyone told to leave ticketing and get on bus. Which is nowhere in evidence.
4. Bus, once it does manifest, will head into rush hour traffic. But at least my connecting flight isn’t until 9.30 pm, right? #brightside
For all that, thanks, @USAir.
Replying to @JMarkOckerbloom
Happily \(for some values of happily\) I am now in a bus. Thanks, though!
Replying to @rgfeal and @usair
Am supposed to be in ROC tonight; talk tmw morning.
Replying to @elotroalex
Backatcha.
Replying to @mckenziewark
Are you leaving, too? Sorry I’ll miss you, if so!
Replying to @BenRobertson
Indeed!
Hello, Philadelphia. Did not think I would see anything but your airport today.
A-and, we’re stopped. 12 miles to go.
WHY AM I STILL IN A VAN.
Replying to @wilbanks
Oh please don’t tell me I have to live in this thing with all 13 of these people.
Replying to @brettbobley
Did they at least rubberband a laser pointer to it?
I am out of the van. 3 minutes curbside to Legal Seafood. Thanks, TSA Precheck!
Replying to @sleonchnm
Heck yeah. And a crab cake on the way.
Replying to @JenServenti and @brettbobley
There's a requisition form for that. See you in six months.
ROC. At last.
Replying to @mkirschenbaum
cf. David Foster Wallace.
This is not something I hear every day. RT @RYDROPONiC_311: @kfitz you Virginian piece of shit what happened to the rap game
Replying to @shanakimball
I know. I’ve just let things slide. The day job got in the way.
Replying to @tcarmody and @shanakimball
Hell yeah.
At ROC, headed home. I am hopeful that travel whining today will be minimal. *knocks wood*
Rhet-comp & writing studies folks: the MLA very much wants to hear from you in the discussion of the draft groups proposal on @MLACommons. +
The document is very much a draft, and your input can play a huge role in shaping how your fields are represented: http://groupsdiscussion.commons.mla.org/draft-proposal/#comment-233
#MLA members: If you haven’t yet, be sure to read the FAQ on our groups discussion. Important info therein! http://groupsdiscussion.commons.mla.org/faq/
Replying to @MichaelHancher
Could you report via feedback/ticketing system? Brown button at right edge.
RT @jenna_lay: Loved reading @LKremmel's thoughtful response to @kfitz's recent visit to Lehigh: http://www.nassrgrads.com/online-academics-questions-for-grad-students
Replying to @CJ_Daugherty
Go, you! \(“CJD? She’s very big in Germany\.”\)
RT @MLACommons: We are happy to announce round two of the #MLA New Variorum Shakespeare Digital Challenge! http://news.commons.mla.org/2013/09/18/the-new-variorum-shakespeare-digital-challenge/
Replying to @amandafrench, @MLACommons and @patrick_mj
We would never.
If detailed for you the levels of my coffee-making FAIL today, you would not believe me. I should never travel without my Aeropress again.
Replying to @plragde
That is criminal.
Take away my digital media scholar credentials if you like, but -- I don't get all the iOS 7 hate. I'm mostly digging it so far.
I'm actually trying to get myself to use the native apps for a few weeks, to see how I feel about them. So far, so good, except: +
Gmail labels, for crying out loud. How many years has it been? SHOW THEM, MAIL.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
I hear you about the dock. To close apps: double tap the home button as before, then swipe up on the app you want to close.
Replying to @moncia
Gatekeeper! I'm being gatekept!
Okay, and a plea to the native Twitter app: sync my place in the timeline across devices, pls pls pls.
In the category of things iOS7 gets right: the newsstand is no longer treated as an application independent of publications. At last.
Replying to @wynkenhimself
I'll trade that for not having to force quit it all the time.
Replying to @acavender
Me too. This iteration of the native app experiment may not last.
Talk 1 of 2 at Cornell University today is about to begin!
Replying to @cgbrooke
I know! We should rectify that.
I can tell already: Twitter will be the first native app I abandon. #ios7
Replying to @CGSaw
I've used Tweetbot a while & love it. The Twitter thing is part of my "test out new native apps & see if I still hate them" plan.
Replying to @CGSaw
Exactly. I'm liking Mail this go-round, and would totally stick with it if it could deal with Gmail labels properly.
Gave two talks yesterday. Up at 4 today to fly ITH > EWR > IAH > BTR for my grandmother's 90th birthday. Both cases: exhausting but fun!
Cab is 25 minutes late picking me up. I am now in a ridiculously long and slow security line. This is not how I want to start this day.
Replying to @alicetiara
Ithaca! 3 gates, 1 security lane, 20 mins. Am through now though!
As of this very moment, I have 4,747 followers. My former students will know why I noticed.
Replying to @patrick_mj
Ooh. A question we hadn’t considered. Let me get back to you!
Wonderful 90th birthday party today for my grandmother! Now hoping my trip home goes smoothly so I’m on time for tmw’s program cte meeting.
The other thing it wd be nice to have in control center in iOS7: your next boarding pass. Swipe up from any screen & voila: less fumbling.
Replying to @beautyislikeyea
Yes! I have that set. What I want is to be able to swipe up from any other app & get to a boarding pass with one thumb.
Replying to @sheepeeh
Yay! Congrats!
RT @m_b_schlosser: Self RT for the Monday crowd: My book selection for the faculty recognition program: @kfitz's Planned Obsolescence. http…
Replying to @m_b_schlosser
SUPER COOL. Thank you so much for the selection.
RT @jasonrhody: Plotting out my MLA panel matrix thanks to @samplereality's fab annual list of DH sessions: http://www.samplereality.com/2013/09/19/digital-humanities-at-mla-2014/ Grateful…
RT @samplereality: "All those who mock academic labor" contribute to the impoverishment—and death—of adjuncts. - @philnel http://t.co/JdYxC…
Replying to @shanakimball
It’s very weird profile.
Replying to @shanakimball
It’s *a* very weird profile, I mean.
Replying to @shanakimball and @ayjay
So much hostility. Eileen Fisher doesn't know how to draw. Or sew. And she mistreats her cat!
RT @MLACommons: 200+ presidential theme sessions at #mla14! Tell us about yours to have it featured on the @MLAconvention blog: http://t.co…
So, so much to think about in here: http://frankchimero.com/blog/2013/09/the-inferno-of-independence/
Cold. Fingers numb. Brain activity slowing. Cannot last much longer. Tell my children I love them.
\(Seriously, building: it’s 65 degrees outside\. TURN OFF THE AIR CONDITIONER\.\)
Replying to @tcarmody and @fchimero
I haven’t, but really want to. Let’s do something, please.
Am in Dumbo for the first time since probably 1994 and am experiencing MASSIVE cognitive dissonance like whoa.
One of my clearest memories here is of walking past a burning car between the subway and my friend’s. 10.30am Sunday; no one for blocks.
Replying to @Exhaust_Fumes
SERIOUSLY. There’s a West Elm.
Replying to @miriamkp
Ooh, I missed your announcement earlier! Huge congrats again, and very glad it’s official!
Replying to @stephharves
No kidding! Where are the burning cars of yesteryear?
About to begin a two-day meeting with the fabulous & incredibly hard-working #MLA Publications Committee!
Replying to @karikraus
Whoa, awesome. congrats!
Replying to @shanakimball
You missed mine at the UNT meeting! \(I can’t swear that it’s a good example, though; you’d have to ask others about that\.\)
Replying to @shanakimball
I might be able to do that...
Replying to @shanakimball and @jbrittholbrook
Me & the mice, we’re totally getting down. \(Srsly, thanks\.\)
Replying to @shanakimball
FYI, the conf website says videos are forthcoming? http://openaccess.unt.edu/symposium/2013
Replying to @JenHoward
That's fantastic! Congratulations to him.
Note to self: I know you haven’t had your coffee yet, but try to remember that the filter is a non-optional component of the Aeropress.
Replying to @plragde
There was this moment of pure bafflement as coffee and grinds came flooding out into my cup and over my countertop.
Replying to @bantic
I absolutely love it. Best and most consistent coffee I’ve made at home. Plus ridiculously easy cleanup.
Replying to @moncia, @jvinopal, @mkgold, @elotroalex and @nycdh
Very sorry not to be there with you today; crazy meeting/travel schedule demands a day at home.
Replying to @moncia, @RayS6 and @nytimes
I’m sorry this one isn’t included as part of that series! http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/arts/24peer.html?smid=pl-share
Replying to @miriamkp
I NEED DIS. http://ineeddis.com/
Replying to @rgfeal and @ProfM_Lindemann
I don't have cable & have been doing this all season. If you use Tweetbot you can mute keywords & hashtag at least.
Replying to @ProfM_Lindemann
Congratulations! Well deserved.
Replying to @kylebeachy
So sorry to hear you’re injured! Glad to know you’ve got good support. Take care!
At LGA. This week’s itinerary: MSP for an @ARLnews workshop; ORD for the Dean’s Lecture at Columbia College. Hope to see some of you!
Replying to @jmittell
Hey, s/he’s communicating. Openly and transparently.
RT @sherah1918: To all of my colleagues and friends who work federal jobs: thank you for what you do all year. I hope you get to do those t…
Thinking a lot tonight about all my friends who work for the government. Wishing for better times for us all.