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March 29, 2002
squish: how does your garden
squish: how does your garden grow is, in part, Salmon's take on her lecture for ENV321Y. It was so cool."
Posted by jason at 03:43 PM
Bought a copy of Jane
Bought a copy of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. I've never read it. Ya, don't hit me. But since I'm writing a review on cryptomimesis, and the author refers to it so much, I figure I'd better read it. And I'm looking for another cool book she relies heavily on, which I've not read... Abraham and Torok, i think, but my spelling may be off, and the cryptomimesis is in my office. It is worth getting even if it is just for the review."
Posted by jason at 03:41 PM
March 25, 2002
This is a picture
This is a picture of Amoxicillin. Which our cat, Neko, is now on for her bacterial infection."
Posted by jason at 06:22 PM
News for all of you
News for all of you who care. Neko is not, at the moment dying of cancer, as the first vet said. She has a massive bacterial infection. I'm off to get special antibiotics. We were suspicious when online searches said that that cats with liver cancer stop eating. And she's eating 3-4x what she normally would eat. Thanks JOEL for driving us over to the appointment last friday. I'm off across town to get the drugs."
Posted by jason at 10:07 AM
jasonnolan.com expires today. I've been
jasonnolan.com expires today. I've been waiting a year or so for it to come due. I was sort of pissed off that nothings been ever done with the site and most of the links don't work, and there's no content. But I don't know if I really care any more. $25.49 could buy a killer bottle of wine, or two movie tickets to see Amelie, or some cat food."
Posted by jason at 07:34 AM
March 22, 2002
Spelling counts: slogs.swf?
Spelling counts: slogs.swf?"
Posted by jason at 08:49 PM
March 20, 2002
Cyborg Manifesto is a recommeded
Cyborg Manifesto is a recommeded reading for Katherine Parrish's lecture, and the final exam...."
Posted by jason at 10:38 PM
"Hardware Background Screens are up,"
Hardware Background Screens are up, and very pretty. Kenny and I went to Active surplus last week. He bought stuff, and I took pictures. His partner allows him to bring stuff home, and mine"
Posted by jason at 09:04 AM
March 19, 2002
The Globe and Mail: Saltspring
The Globe and Mail: Saltspring idea gains currency Saltspring Island is printing its own paper currency in an attempt to raise money for environmentally friendly buses on the idyllic Gulf Island of 10,000 residents."
Posted by jason at 08:24 AM
March 18, 2002
Templates are back... Thanks for
Templates are back... Thanks for finding it out Sarah. Sarah and I bitched on Blogger, and she emailed evan.. Somehow, on an upgrade, all the templates got deleted. Don't know how, but they're back/"
Posted by jason at 11:21 AM
March 17, 2002
Catspaw/Kat had a rude celtic
Catspaw/Kat had a rude celtic awakening this smorning, ""That's when I remember: Saint Patricks Day. Ahhh, this would explain all the people in bright green. (I'm not very observant when I'm tired). And then I start noticing the people more closely: little yelling kids, old people drunk by 10 am. This holiday has just ranked on my ""Catspaw's Hated Holiday"" list along with Secretaries Day and Be Nice To People Day. More busloads of people keep arriving. Some wearing green t-shirts and some dressed, head to tail, in Americanized leprochaun gear. All right below me."" Yes, it is ""you can all be Irish for a day"" day. Not quite as famous as ""let's be WASPs for a day"" or ""let's be Iranian for a day"" or ""let's be Mexicans for a day"" or ... you get the picture. And there's something wrong with it. Join the team Kat."
Posted by jason at 12:42 PM
March 16, 2002
"Catspaw, on ICQ said, ""I"
Catspaw, on ICQ said, ""I had a dream last night that Achieve (which was represented as an apartment building) was burning to the ground, and we were trying to pull $things and $rooms out of it as quickly as possible so that they wouldn't burn, when suddenly we figured out it wasn't a real fire - it was that someone had left a program running too long and it caught fire."" Jason said nothing...."
Posted by jason at 03:27 PM
March 15, 2002
E2K: a journal for the
E2K: a journal for the new literary paradigm has it's March edition up. I'm editor at large there, but didn't do anything for this month... Hope you'll check it out."
Posted by jason at 06:42 PM
Hardware Background Screens for free
Hardware Background Screens for free download. Kenny and I went to Active surplus. He bought stuff, and I took pictures. His partner allows him to bring stuff home, and mine doesn't. All images are Ʃ 2002 Jason Nolan @ jasonnolan.net. Please don't download or look at kenny's picture at all. It might scare him. All other images are available for you to use personally as a background screen."
Posted by jason at 05:02 PM
Just another reason why a)
Just another reason why a) maureeen should blog more, and b) why I should read it more often. re-creating In this state of mind m more than usually receptive to Ursula Franklis talk about silence as a common good and as something other than merely absence of sound. I like her characterizing silence as an enabling environment. Among the things it enables is the possibility of discovering and attending to ons own thoughts. Is interesting, too, to think of it as a kind of space, an opening for what Franklin calls ""the unprogrammed and the unprogrammable not a bad description of what I hope to encounter when writing a poem."
Posted by jason at 08:38 AM
"At Airport Gate, a Cyborg"
At Airport Gate, a Cyborg Unplugged. Thus Steve's not returning my email these days."
Posted by jason at 08:02 AM
March 12, 2002
I'm an invited participant for
I'm an invited participant for the Round Table Series: On Technology: Shared Learning Objects. I don't have to present. I'm just expected to be there and look pretty, and say something nice. Sort of what I'm doing for John Willinsky tomorrow, when he presents as part of the Technology in Support of Learning and Teaching lecture series for KMDI. Wheee...."
Posted by jason at 07:47 AM
Really rocking on pollenation today.
Really rocking on pollenation today. Tripped over TS Eliot references."
Posted by jason at 07:42 AM
March 11, 2002
For those of us who
For those of us who missed the theatre showing, Cyberman -- about our most wearable cyborg, Steve Mann -- is on CBC The Nature of Things this Tuesday at 8PM. Now, if Steve is watching the show and broadcasting it onto the web, does this mean he violates CBC copyright?"
Posted by jason at 12:38 PM
March 07, 2002
Welcome to the iTunes Newton
Welcome to the iTunes Newton Plug-in Pages. Yes, screw the iPod, resurrect the Newton!"
Posted by jason at 07:39 AM
March 06, 2002
International Handbook of Virtual Learning
International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments now has a home page... why do you care? Cause I'm one of the editors."
Posted by jason at 02:51 PM
March 04, 2002
City of Palo Alto -
City of Palo Alto - Accessibility Guidelines is a neat article that Mia Quint of RCAT sent me. It relates to the hegemony of ascii, a chapter I just finished for Peter's book..."
Posted by jason at 07:31 PM
Got the second letter. No
Got the second letter. No invitation for an interview for the Technology position at OISE/UT. Enough said.
Posted by jason at 06:46 PM
"Tracy Ross, a wonderful ex-TA"
Tracy Ross, a wonderful ex-TA who taught me to let TA's lecture in ENV321Y, used me as a reference for a job application. It seems as if she got it, and here's the film to prove it. Cute. Thanks!"
Posted by jason at 09:34 AM
March 02, 2002
Finding me more boring than
Finding me more boring than usual? Just a reminder that all my cool stuff is getting dumped at pollenation. That and I'm co-authoring a paper with Prof. Steve Mann. Be scared for us both."
Posted by jason at 08:57 AM
Fuzzy Blogic :: The Journal
Fuzzy Blogic :: The Journal of Jacob Shwirtz:# 25 on Daypop. Jeez. Never thought that would happen. Always been more of a Blogdex man myself. Pretty ironic that the specific blog where I blog about bloggers blogging about blogging gets blogged by bloggers blogging about blogging and is what gets me into blogdex and daypop.
To which I say... It should scare you? What scares me is that the first thing everyone does to a fairly non-hierarchical publishing environment (blogs) is to start generating hierarchies. With media profile folks in the centre. Then they run the agenda on the meta-topics of ego-inflating intertextuality and whatever else meets the cool quotent. What am I saying? This happens with any media. In fact, I that's probably the purpose of new media... to let a new group float to the top... oh, never mind. Nice colours on your blog."
Posted by jason at 08:39 AM
March 01, 2002
Wired magazine has a cool
Wired magazine has a cool article: Have iPod, Will Secretly Bootleg The iPod is perfect for virtual shoplifting. It is designed as a digital music player, but its roomy 5-GB hard drive can be used as portable storage for all kinds of files, even the Macintosh operating system. In fact, it can operate as an external drive, booting up a machine and running applications."
Posted by jason at 09:27 AM