http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/ Copyright 2006 Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:03:13 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I'm at a workshop on visual and digital rhetoric with Jeff Rice, at the SU Writing Program. He is asking us to use a blog as a space to free-write on a theme in four different sectors of discourse, but... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/11/vis_and_dig.html http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/11/vis_and_dig.html Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:03:13 +0000 Q. says, “My son A. studied jazz with a Dr. Coolman? Could that really be his given name, a jazz player named Coolman?” A. told me that one of his teachers (was it Dr. Coolman?) described to him the stages... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/05/the_stages_of_a.html http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/05/the_stages_of_a.html Mon, 02 May 2005 05:57:29 +0000 Honors theses were due today. As writing consultant for the Honors Program, I’ve been on the firing line for seventy projectors over the last many weeks. I worked with writers on about fourteen thesis projects, some quite long. I prayed... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/tintinnabulum_c.html http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/tintinnabulum_c.html Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:13:01 +0000 Mmmm. Jennies macaroons. Weigh the can in your hand. It's like an oatmeal can. You know--cardboard cylinder, metal rims, replaceable plastic top. It has a metal pop-top seal inside. These aren’t cheap, either. Each macaroon is a little coconut bomb,... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/jennies_macaroo.html http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/jennies_macaroo.html Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:26:28 +0000 #287414 +(9777)- [X] [DeadMansHand] haha, last night, me and pete went out to celebrate his engagement and got hugely drunk [DeadMansHand] we got this great idea to bury each other in the sand close to the water and see who... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/snippet_from_in_1.html http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/snippet_from_in_1.html Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:12:55 +0000 I was wondering how nakedly exposed my blog was, so I googled “theory canal” on a whim and found, to my surprise, that I share this name with a computer science theory group at the University of Rochester: THEORY CANAL:... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/two_theory_cana_1.html http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/two_theory_cana_1.html Tue, 19 Apr 2005 07:34:45 +0000 Saturday, Q. and I walk the bike path into the woodland by the Allegheny River. Two miles in, you can find us, lounging and tangled on a bench by the shore, talking in the sun. Across the water is a... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/this_is_why_i_c.html http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/this_is_why_i_c.html Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:27:21 +0000 In this action thriller, a hit man (Tom Cruise) cajoles/engages/coerces a cab driver (Jamie Foxx) to chauffer him through a night of five hits, bumping off the testifiers in a big, upcoming drug case. If this were the first thriller... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/collateralaa_re.html http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/collateralaa_re.html Thu, 14 Apr 2005 07:02:18 +0000 [Note: all the lines after the first line of each stanza should be indented and aligned; I can't find an HTML tag for this.] Brief reflection on maps (by Miroslav Holub, trans. Ewald Osers) Albert Szent-Gyorgi, who knew a thing... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/heres_one_for_p.html http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/heres_one_for_p.html Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:29:10 +0000 Yesterday was an effulgent spring day. Here’s what I did. I sat inside and read student papers. I sat inside and read an article on social network analysis for a grad course. I sat inside and read Honors theses. I... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/this_is_only_go.html http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/this_is_only_go.html Mon, 11 Apr 2005 05:52:40 +0000 We’re trying to get clear which song is which. JC says: “Does it matter? All music is the same, like sausage. It’s just divided up arbitrarily into links.”... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/there_are_links.html http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/there_are_links.html Sat, 09 Apr 2005 21:50:52 +0000 “Mirrors and copulation are abominable, for they multiply the number of mankind.” In Jorges Borges’ story “Tlön Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” the narrator’s friend Bioy Casares cites this from the Anglo-American Cyclopedia, from the entry on Uqbar. Pulling Borges' copy off... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/tlan_uqbar_wiki.html http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/tlan_uqbar_wiki.html Thu, 07 Apr 2005 23:47:06 +0000 In my dreams, I’m frequently with an ill-defined group of comrades, both male and female. In this dream, the group is marooned on a cold, wet, stony island, our raft shot to pieces. On a rock in front of me,... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/island_of_scorp.html http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/island_of_scorp.html Wed, 06 Apr 2005 05:39:51 +0000 "The future belongs to crowds." ---Don DeLillo "The future belongs to cowards." ---Theory Canal... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/misreading.html http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/04/misreading.html Tue, 05 Apr 2005 01:23:26 +0000 "Hence, if you look for a man's burden, you will find the principle that reveals the structure of his unburdening; or, in attenuated form, if you look for his problem, you will find the lead that explains the structure of... http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/03/the_structure_o.html http://wrt-brooke.syr.edu/net/henry/archives/2005/03/the_structure_o.html Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:09:13 +0000