Recent Exercises

  • Practice Writing

    I don’t think I could do any other job. Sometimes I think I could, but that’s only at moments where I haven’t been properly caffeinated and/or self-medicated. I took this…

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  • Darwin’s Library

    They have digitized Charles Darwin’s library and put it online for anyone to use. Better than that – they have transcribed his annotations and marks in the books.…

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  • Hart Crane: The Book Is Better

    A film review over at the Poetry Foundation blog makes the new James Franco film about Hart Crane seem a lot less about Hart Crane and a lot more…

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  • Technology’s Dramatic Interlude

    CURTAIN rises on a very sparsely furnished office with a few books on the floor and some gutted computers here and there. A man sits staring at a…

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  • Academic Service-Learning Workshop, Part 1

    Attending a 2 day Academic Service-Learning (ASL) workshop. I’m not a big fan of ASL. I find the way it is discussed to be incredibly uncomfortable. I find…

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  • Opportunity, to teach

    This article is timed perfectly for me. I’ve been thinking about how to re-create (recreate?) my public speaking class. Like a computer, public speaking gets slow, frustrating, and…

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