All is going well with the Seattle move. Looks like we might live in Renton. Still getting used to all the traffic and roads. We have a new car, a 2001 Subaru Forrester, its black. Now I just need someone to “pimp my ride” as we say here in my hood. ; )
I’ll have flickr pics up soon of our tourist-trip before we become seattlites.
[tags] Seattle, Renton, new home [/tags]
So its day 3 of our new life with diabetes. My wife and myself are learning how to check blood sugar levels and giving insulin injections. The little storm does not like the injections at all, and no amount of positive and negative reinforcement seems to calm her. Hopefully time will help. We are reading alot as well, both books and websites. We get out of the hospital tomorrow, then were on our own.
[tags] diabetes, storm [/tags]
This cheery little story resides in the Bible. Haven’t read the bible? You should, more violence, sex, death and drama than anything Hollywood could produce. The story in verbose: God and the Devil make a testosterone-filled bet, that Job would not forsake his god. Little did he know that god would put him through hell to prove himself right.
And then there is my story.
Within a few years: I watched them stop emergency ventilating my younger brother. I helped make the decision to unplug life-support from my father, watching as the heart monitor slowly counted down. And now I’ve discovered that the fruit of my loins, my five-year old daughter has type 1 diabetes.
So, if I’m being tested, that deity has a lot to fucking answer for. Forsake my ass, I’m bringing somebody down with me.
A new section to the blog. I find words to be a powerful force, able to invoke a wide range of emotions and actions (i.e. rhetoric) These words can be found in various modes, songs, poems, news, or fiction. The ones that appeal to me I’ll post here. You can see all of them by clicking on the “quotes” category.
Don’t you know, there ain’t no devil, there’s just god when he is drunk. - Tom Waits
[tags] quote, tom waits [/tags]
More information on the Google Notebook for the thesis (link on the right) More focused now I feel. Stepping away from the broad general idea of critical thinking in the classroom. Even using technology as a focus it was too much, too scattered. Instead I’m going to focus on a rhetorical analysis of Web 2.0 tools and how they can be applied in the classroom. There has been some discussion of blogs, but mostly on a literacy basis. I want to focus more on theory, possible on form. Examples of things I want to look into:
All of this of course requires rhetorical theory as a lens to peer through. So refreshing my memory on theorist, McLuhan, Burke, etc. Anyone who understanding the importance of popular cultural study.
[tags] thesis, rhetoric, web 2.0, blogging, critical thinking [/tags]
Finding a lot in reference to what I’m looking at with the thesis. So created another Google notebook, linked here and to the left, that will have copies of my findings. There is a reading list section, examples, etc. The Kairos journal has been a nice inspiration, forgot about it for a while. Its interesting because the concept of kairos ties in a bit with what I’m looking at web 2.0 for, the kairic nature of the technology if you will.
[tags] thesis, kairos, rhetoric [/tags]
ok, soon, as in tomorrow, I will be adding the brainstorming, the ideas, the drafts of my Masters thesis in English. This horrid paper has haunted me for over a year of inactivity. It is time to face this beast and either surpass all expectations…or die trying…
[tags] thesis, rhetoric, critical pedagogy, critical composition [/tags]
Sorry, no posts today, webserver went down, and hard. There was hellfire and brimstone flying into the eyes of sys admin as they fought the demons. Or…an update overwrote some customized FD_SETSIZE limits and fucked everything up. After much recompiling by the heroes in black, Apache is behaving again. But damn! what a day…sigh.
[tags] Apache, server failure, all bad [/tags]
Ok, this is something horrifying I came across on boingboing.net
CHOAK PEAR. Figuratively, an unanswerable objection: also a machine formerly used in Holland by robbers; it was of iron, shaped like a pear; this they forced into the mouths of persons from whom they intended to extort money; and on turning a key, certain interior springs thrust forth a number of points, in all directions, which so enlarged it, that it could not be taken out of the mouth: and the iron, being case-hardened, could not be filed: the only methods of getting rid of it, were either by cutting the mouth, or advertizing a reward for the key, These pears were also called pears of agony.
Maybe this should be done with all politicians.
[tags] torture, oddity, good idea [/tags]