I listened to the Indigo Girls for three straight months, mostly because it was the only tape I had that didn’t break. I was on buses, countless buses going to Steele, North Dakota, Missoula, Coeur d’Alene, Eugene, Portland, San Francisco, anywhere west. I listened to white noise on a walkman in order to [...]
It’s interesting to me how little of the current hypertext/new media theory comes from people of my generation. Look at websites containing essays on cyberculture, and you’ll find the majority of them have that “circa 1994″ look of simplified layout and clunky graphics, and are maintained by people our parents’ age (e.g., Sherry Turkle, [...]
The digital age offers us written texts in essentially two formats: luminous (or digital) and non-luminous (or traditional). Traditional written texts rely on the reflection of light from the writing surface; light strikes the page, and the areas of high and low spectral absorption are interpreted by our eyes and brains as characters, [...]
Whenever spring sets in and the weather begins to improve, I invariably crave either Thai food or Vietnamese food. When it’s high summer, I always crave Mexican food. Unfortunately, the Mexican food in Fargo is largely quite bad; the one Vietnamese restaurant here has lost its edge and now serves watered-down dishes, and [...]
Interesting unexplained recent/regular visits to this journal:
- Someone from China with an outdated browser (I suspect this is a bot or a web crawler, and if it is, it should die — it’s ignoring robots.txt);
- Someone from New England (Mass., somewhere near Martha’s Vineyard);
- Someone from Montana (Circle, MT?), by way of everypoet.com;
- someone from [...]