Archive for October, 2006
October 19th, 2006 todomundo | No Comments »
Overheard outside the Broadway T stop in South Boston:
“Text messages? You know.. they’re like those 900 numbers. All the numbers got letters on them!”
It made me a little nostalgic for my pager days (~ 1998- 2001). I miss the cryptic numeric codes.
143!
October 15th, 2006 todomundo | No Comments »
After an insane week preparing the TeachForward rough draft site for our test clique, I spent about 5 hours this afternoon relaxing with a soy latte and slice of bostok from Canto 6 catching up on my blog peoples.
Must reads include the fascinating comments section to jace/rupture’s reflection on the emergent dialectic in UK dubstep/grime. […]
October 12th, 2006 teaching | 1 Comment »
In Pre-Calculus today, we created piecemeal functions in which the dollar value of a month’s cellphone bill is dependent on the number of minutes one uses during that month. As we broke apart two different T-Mobile pricing plans, discussion of the functions’ domains lead to a fascinating tangent.
Initially, students were not drawing arrowheads onto […]
Mike Watt (most famously of the Minutemen, America’s greatest rock outfit) has had an internet radio show for nigh on five years running. My roommate and I had a blast listening to his most recent three-hour show. Mega slanguage happening on these broadcasts. Put this on your liberated ipod or whatever as […]
October 5th, 2006 todomundo | 1 Comment »
A few weeks ago, I attended a BC football game on a breezy Saturday afternoon. Watching the players, I thought about the evolution of video game football. In the early 90’s, video game football playability peaked out. Aside from a few nuances, the control layout and sequencing of most games were identical. […]
“Perching on the Beam” cassette edition drops Thursday
October 3rd, 2006 todomundo | 1 Comment »
Despite the fact that we logged on only once or twice, Bone Zone has been forcibly removed from MySpace.
From: MySpace Admin
Reply-To: MySpace Admin
To: [NOSPAM]
Date: 2 Oct 2006 19:20:07 -0700
Subject: Account deleted for violation of Terms of Service
Your MySpace account has been deleted for violating our Terms of Service.
This is usually due to one […]
Fact: my other blogging outlets went stale. My exploration into identity division via the academic blog / culture blog dichotomy was ultimately too chaotic and disorienting to manage. As a result, we arrive here beneath a title obliquely referencing my weaker language ( español ) and that of my favorite rio funk track […]