Midterm grading is DONE so I'm heading out for a fall hike with my adorable daughter. Here's a little something to entertain those still stuck in Grading Hell:
In an unparalleled feat of investigative journalism, the New York Times tracks down the origin of the Escape key and offers some computer keys for those inhabiting alternate realities.
Get back to basics with the ABCs: read Nathan O. Marsh's Alphabet Apocrypha to discover why I'm suddenly enamored of air-adapted anchovies.
Is that a marching band or a gigantic game of Tetris? Watch and wonder as the Ohio State University marching band transforms the football field into a video game.
I'm not a huge fan of taxidermy, but if the book is half as good a this review, it's a must-read. Anjuli Raza Kolb writes, "We pick up a feather, pocket a sun-bleached crab shell, a bolt of whale skin brushes a foot underwater. Whatever the object, to handle and hold these fetishes in a life so digital is practically psychotropic."
Finally, I'm driving on the interstate in the pouring rain, surrounded by Sunday drivers who don't know their right turn-signal from their left, and suddenly this song comes on the radio and the whole world smiles. In fact, I'm still smiling. Hope you are too.
No comments:
Post a Comment