Words

Blogging and Voice and the Good vs the Perfect

October 1, 2012
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I want to write about our posts last month, and the dueling philosophies behind our contributions. {Begin Smack Talk} I totally won Septembers awesomeness duel which comes as no surprise; Patrick’s writing strategy seems to be locking up a hundred monkeys with a typewriter and thirty pounds of meth and afterward transcribing the resulting the smears…

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My (Better than Patrick’s) Conjecture Schedule

September 26, 2012
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In case you didn’t know, Patrick and I will both be speaking at Conjecture 2012.  I am speaking on 11(!) Panels and will be having my first reading and first signing! The Normality Field: Why Isn’t It the Future Yet? (Moderating) Panel 1:  Fri 10/5  3:00 PM, 60 minutes. In 1993, William Gibson said “The…

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Anamnesis

September 5, 2012
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I’ve been a little busy between school and trying to fix the podcast that John broke, so instead of trying to come up with some cat macro like John would, I’m going to introduce you to a word that amused me greatly when I learned it: Anamnesis. Anamnesis is a concept from the Platonic dialogues,…

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Patrick

The inevitable victor

Patrick really is more awesome. His name goes second to signal the inevitability of his victory.

When not rubbing John's face in his rarefied awesomeness, Patrick (a.k.a. Patrick Harris) is a graduate student of Rhetoric at SDSU and all-about geek gadfly.