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09/10/2004 Archived Entry: "Daily"

The Daily Show:
Told as a few days worth of assemblages....

  • New office. Three huge book shelves. Only two books in them - desk copies sent to me already (though I didn't request them). One's a collection of short stories. The other is the Hawisher/Selfe technology reader.
  • Needed to look at Nelson's Computer Lib again. Both campus libraries are missing their copies. Went online - hey might as well own it, right? - best buy used is around $125. Ok. It's not that great a book.
  • William Shatner on Howard Stern this morning promoting his new record done with the Ben Folds Five. Completely funny. Shatner doesn't understand why the gang is goofing on him. It's all spoken word, no singing. "So who's this broad you're talking about?" Stern asks. Shatner: "My wife." Ben (Harper?) says of the record: "It's awesome. It sounds like Leonard Cohen." Uh yeah. And why again is that a goal? I have a book of poems by Leonard Cohen somewhere...somewhere around here...Suzanne eats oranges by the river...or something like that...
  • Where's my G5!!!!
  • We should all go to CCCC anyways and sell t-shirts in the lobby. The shirts can read (taking Dilger's lead here..) "I wrote my paper on the plane," "Nobody likes me," "I want my mommy," and "Leave me alone." Jenny calls these anxieTs or Composition Pedagog-Tee.
    Then we give a little impromptu talk: What the essay was to 19th and early 20th century writing, the t-shirt is to the late 20/early 21st century writing class. Have your students make t-shirts! On the syllabus: "For this class you will need to buy one iron, 10 transfers, a disk..."
  • Who's in charge of the radio at the gym? Why oh why do they play Billy Idol every day?

    Replies: 2 comments

    Why is it defective?
    I got word Friday that mine's in. So Monday I'll go in and set it up. But what's wrong with yours?

    Posted by jeff @ 09/11/2004 11:54 AM EST

    Apple has been real slow with shipping the G5s. Ours took two months plus from the date order. And, it appears to be defective. Joy....

    Posted by cbd @ 09/11/2004 11:01 AM EST

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