http://whyamistillawake.com This is my private blog to piss off anyone I can't piss off anywhere else. Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:20:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm trying out a Billy Pilgrim experiment, where I become unstuck in time (or at least my blog does) - I need to do something with these tour reports and think I may import them to this wordpress blog. Not sure. But here is a clip from one of our ... http://whyamistillawake.com/2009/02/13/tuesday-feb-27th-1996-liverpool-england/ I am on hiatus from writing for Smile Politely; I have a column there called "Building a Sustainable Baby" - I really enjoy writing there but feel constrained; they want mommy columns and I don't always feel like writing about being a mommy. I have so many other things I ... http://whyamistillawake.com/2009/02/13/back-again/ A student named Kyle wrote this wonderful email to me early on in the semester and it was hard for me to answer back then. I just answered him now, and it's such a wonderful set of questions I thought I'd post my answers here, just to add to the ... http://whyamistillawake.com/2008/10/29/response-to-a-students-questions/ I'm blogging a lot more consistently over at smilepolitely.com; here's the URL: http://www.smilepolitely.com/opinion/building-a-sustainable-baby/index.php. I'll still try to keep up here, but it's hard to do both regularly.... http://whyamistillawake.com/2008/08/26/blogging-at-smile-politely-dot-com/ You know what? I wouldn't pay to become a Premium Member of classmates.com or reunion.com even if it wasn't some ridiculous price, and the reason is, that just by looking at people's names, I cannot remember if they were mean to me! I recognize some of the names but I ... http://whyamistillawake.com/2008/08/11/wouldnt-pay/ In answer to the previous post comment, Flash is popular because it's easy to use and you don't need to know how to program in order to use it. You can make very shallow, gratuitous (but arguably beautiful) animations without knowing anything. So back in the late 90s, early 00s, people were ... http://whyamistillawake.com/2008/04/26/how-and-why-flash-sucks-my-ass/ So far there are only 3 students signed up for the "Ubiquitous Game" class and about 15 for the "Flash" class. So I made a flier. We'll see. http://whyamistillawake.com/2008/04/14/gaming-class/ In searching for examples of interconnectedness I found this, which is amazing: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9280/coarise5.htm "A simple example: For the average person living in a competitive world, success does not stop at merely the social phenomenon of success, with all its trappings, but includes clinging to the identity of being a successful person, which ... http://whyamistillawake.com/2008/04/13/why-to-keep-awards-in-a-closet/ Wow - does this mean we have to move now? Rick and I won the "Lifetime Achievement Award" (for Poster Children) at the Local Music Awards tonight!! Thanks to Buzz, WPGU, the217.com - that was something else! We are in the company of past winners Mark Rubel, Chef Ra, and Ward ... http://whyamistillawake.com/2008/04/04/lifetime-achievement-award/ From my sister in London: Q: sascha [her child] has been really scared to go to bed at night. tonight she told me that she was scared of robbers. she asked if there were any robbers in london and i said "well..." then she asked if robbers have ... http://whyamistillawake.com/2008/03/31/lie-your-ass-off/