Guitar Hero: Two Tasty Kinds of Flow

I resolved to blog once a week, posting every Friday, but yesterday happened to be a marathon session of thesis presentations by the second year CMS students, followed by a party at department co-chair William Urrichio's house. And, writing up my blog this morning, it turned out to be more relevant to my studies, so I posted to the (yes, still under construction)CMS Journal blog. Hey, I'm trying!

Happy Easter/Passover, and a Minor Respite

Thanks to the absurd New England-only holiday, "Patriot's Day", and one of MIT's random but always welcome mid-term holidays, known affectionately by students as "suicide prevention days," I have Monday and Tuesday off and am feeling not-totally-overwhelmed this weekend. Thankfully so, it's been a busy couple of weeks.

The highlights of the past month or so have included a trip to NYC with Becky to mark our fist wedding anniversary, a class visit from
Sherry Turkle, my participation in an ongoing group narrative project with Geoffrey Long and Peter Rauch, my near-completion of videos and materials concerning Cory Doctorow for the New Media Literacies Exemplar Library, my semi-competent redesign of this very website, and some amazing news from one of my closest friends (keeping cagey about it just in case).

Not so fun moments included a beautiful spring break week spent almost entirely inside working on projects, the maddeningly protracted development of the architecture for the still barely functional CMS Journal, Becky's recent stomach flu, and the dawning realization that my thesis proposal is due in mere weeks.

This weekend I'm finally going to hit the Star Wars exhibit at the Museum of Science with Kristina, not only to enjoy but also to observe folks for our ethnography assignment. Local grade-school students have the week off, so we should see a lot of children exploring the exhibit, most likely dragged there, bewildered and complaining, by their nostalgic Gen-X parents. But, you never know. Will duly report on our observations next week.

New Look - Still Lame!

I'm getting my web-design act together, starting fresh with a stripped-down HTML page and basic CSS. Look for iterative changes to make this all look a lot better soon. Sorry.