Start of Summer 2022
I submitted grades last week, and it’s officially the start of the summer. I took a few days to mess around and decompress but have now started getting into ...
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2022
Document Design Activity
I crafted an in-class activity for my professional writing class this semester that forces them to engage many of the less obvious features of Word. It also ...
Writing The Confession
I don’t write every day. In fact, during our first class for the semester this past week, I asked my research writing students to share one thing they liked ...
Two Films on Catastrophe
Last night I watched two films that, in very different ways, focused on apocalypse and humanity. Both Nicholas Ashe Bateman’s The Wanting Mare and Adam McKay...
2021
Fixing Nokogiri for x86 Mac
I ran into the following error when working on my site (based on the Minimal Mistakes theme). It built fine when deployed on GitHub pages, but I was unable t...
Memory, Document, Archive
The role of memory is central to the humanities. The ability to recall the past in the present points to something fundamental about human consciousness: a c...
What is New About New Media?
Some new media work frames new media in terms of computational technology. Manovich, for example, claimed in The Language of New Media that numerical represe...