Walter Ong, Human Transformation, Catholicism and The Aesthetics of Technofuturism

I was reading this article about Walter Ong, who I knew only a little about, and I found this fascinating quotation at the end:
The spoken word, as we have seen, is primary, and yet from the start it was destined—or, in another way, doomed—to be supplemented with all the devices and even gadgetry which have [...]

A Pretty Good Day

Today:

I found out I am now an uncle! Yay! Marie, Troy, Nathaniel, congratulations to all of you! Now’s one of those times I wish I could step into a teleporter machine and visit home to see the little fellow… and everyone else too, of course.
We had a meeting and managed to set up the desks [...]

Forget About It!

This week, Adam asks us:
You’ve been given the choice of having 5 memories removed from the world’s collective memories. If you forget them, it will be as if they never happened. Which 5 do you choose?
Man, this is a hard, hard question. I don’t imagine that forgetting big tragedies would be a good thing, so [...]

Congratulations Marie and Troy

Email from my father that came in this morning:
From: Gordon K Sellar
To: gord alexander sellar
Subject: Hi Uncle Gord !!!
Date: 26 Aug 2004 21:08:03
Hi Big Guy,
Your nephew, Nathaniel Sellar Linsley, born 11.28 a,m today 7 lb.10 oz, [...]

Silly Olympic Events and Wisdom Teeth

Last bittie for the day: I went to the dentist today to see if my left bottom wisdom tooth needs to be pulled. He thinks it does, but wouldn’t pull it or even X-Ray it until my current tonsilitis infection is gone.
Tonsilitis? Yeah, I didn’t know I had it, either. So now I have [...]

Iranian Fashion Resistance For Women

At Gweilo Diaries I found a link to a somewhat interesting slideshow that’s supposed to depict how (some) “Iranian women are modifying and eroding the strict religious dress rules” in an age when “the ruling righ[t]-wing conservatives are considering the introduction of a unified ‘National Dress’ (Lebaas-e Melli) for women.” Therefore I’m sticking this under [...]

A Post About Dabang

Hey, I was looking for one of my band’s photos online and I chanced across a fan’s posting on his/her blog. Neat, huh? I wish I could read the comments. And I also found a neat picture of the band, on the daum cafe, which I’ve copied to here:

There are also, apparently, about a [...]

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