Author Archives: Susan

NEW MEDIA: Sister Mary Winword

Posted on September 15, 2004 by Susan

How’s this for transcoding (a blend of human and computer), although not graphically accurate: Winword’s little Spelling & Grammar Tool taking the place of your second-grade nun cracking a ruler on your knuckles every time you misspelled a word. Those … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Thinking on Writerly/Readerly

Posted on September 15, 2004 by Susan

I feel like a server on a DSL or cable line. Always open to the thoughts flying around out there, and some stimuli acts like a cursor that clicks it onscreen. Yet I can’t focus on something when called upon, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & LITERATURE: And, a connection in reality

Posted on September 15, 2004 by Susan

Before I go any further, please allow me this: I smoked in class today—NYAH-NYAH-NYAH-NYAH-NYASH! (No that’s not a typo, it’s a Polish nyah. Between classes I pulled out my copy of Ploughshares (Fall, 2004, Vol. 30, Nos. 2 & 3) … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION: Panic Attack

Posted on September 15, 2004 by Susan

Remember jamais vu? Drawing a complete blank upon visual contact with a familiar thing? Well, it happened in my Stat class this morning. I couldn’t conceive of how to find the mean! I think I’ll go back to wondering if … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA & REALITY: Existence

Posted on September 15, 2004 by Susan

Very dark outside this morning; inside too, if I shut the lights off. Very condusive to odd thoughts when one is questioning the reality of space and the bodies within it, as I started once again to do this past … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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EDUCATION & REALITY: Ill-suited

Posted on September 14, 2004 by Susan

Totally incompatible because of memory shortage in my age class. I really shouldn’t generalize, some people my age and decades older have phenomenal memory capacity. My husband does (drat!) and my father did into his nineties. My memory just has … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA, WRITING & REALITY: All together, now!

Posted on September 14, 2004 by Susan

(Shopping list: Plastic seat cover for computer chair to avoid the issue of a wet seat from running out of the shower with ideas that just have to be typed up immediately.) The thought struck me, not for the first … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Silent Battles

Posted on September 14, 2004 by Susan

Okay, I’m gonna tell you guys something that I can’t discuss with my husband, because it’s about him and I, locked in a 15-year war that luckily does not involve bloodshed. It’s about toothpaste. No, not the old cover on, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Déjà vu

Posted on September 14, 2004 by Susan

Good God, I love labels. In a New York Times article this morning there is a very interesting piece on a scientific study being conducted on that familiar “I’ve been here/done this” feeling we call déjà vu. We can all … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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BLOGGING: Limits

Posted on September 13, 2004 by Susan

I intended this post as a warning that there would probably be no blogging on my part tomorrow, but I’m a blogaholic, as well as an obsessive/compulsive type so I rather doubt it. Tommorow is planned as an intense learn … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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CURRENT AFFAIRS: Election

Posted on September 13, 2004 by Susan

I did remember to go uptown and vote on the airport referendum today. All that reading of pamphlets did give me a basis on which to make a decision. And this, below, is just too funny not to share. You … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Nature of Politics

Posted on September 13, 2004 by Susan

There I was, sitting on the back step formulating a post (I let ideas drift through, and if one catches into a line that makes a complete sentence, I race inside and start typing. It’s my style.) about the New … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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NEW MEDIA: Parallel Space

Posted on September 13, 2004 by Susan

There have been theories that other life, other times are occurring around us, occupying the same space. Parallel stories, spirits, time warp; past, present and future all happening simultaneously. This is what’s been bothering me lately. The woulda’s, coulda’s, shoulda’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY: Driving Forces

Posted on September 12, 2004 by Susan

The past is part of the present and the future. A little rhyme popped in my head just now, and though I know I learned it sometime in grammar school, I’m not sure if it wasn’t my mother who taught … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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REALITY & LITERATURE & NEW MEDIA: Heaven

Posted on September 12, 2004 by Susan

Taking a break from numbers. Numbers that I used to love. Statistics will be the death of me. It’s more than counting pizza slices. It was, as Algebra I’m sure, New Media of its day. Combining letters with the numbers … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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