I have the first of my two or three class meetings for British Popular Culture planned out: a powerpoint giving a basic “crash course” in British popular culture, followed by an episode (probably episode 1, or else the Pub Quiz episode) of The Office, with some discussion interspersed. For the second lecture, I’m thinking...
Read more →This week’s Friday Five question is once again mine: Tell us about five local places (in your neighborhood, town, or city, or region) that you have never visited, but would like to go to sometime… if you ever get around to it? I think, considering how many other people have quit doing them, that...
Read more →Back in September 2003, long before I joined the Friday Five, I noticed friends doing it. I even answered a question, ages ago, and then saved it to my drafts and left it. I saw this on my friend Adam’s site, a violently executed plan blog, and I figured that in the 20 minutes...
Read more →I don’t know why, but I cannot load Rob’s F5 question blog at my home. I mean, I can do it with an anonymous proxy like unipeak, but not without one. I cannot imagine why Hanaro Telecom would choose to block Rob’s site, so I’m guessing it’s some glitch in another blockage, which I...
Read more →In a blast of highschool gossipy mood, I submitted the Friday Five question that came up this week: Please tell us about five people you liked, or who liked you, but with whom you never became involved. Explain why not. This shouldn’t be too hard. Maybe that’s why I wrote the question, in fact;...
Read more →Last week’s Friday Five was once again mine. One of my fondest memories from high school was going over to the home of this idiot we knew named Chris. We used to go to his house, which was on an acreage outside of the city, mostly to poke fun at him, do nasty things...
Read more →Last week’s Friday Five was a question I posed, rather unintelligibly: Our world is one in which many fully-literate citizens can be expected to know much more about entertainers than about the politicians who they’re told represent them in government. It’s easy for intellectual types like us Friday Fivers to dismiss pop stars, of...
Read more →In this week’s Friday Five, Dan asked: You’ve been sent out to scout for potential colony worlds. It turns out that Earth-like bodies (whether full planets or moons) are surprisingly common, or at least easy to access given the Super-Ion Warpification Doodad. Plus, terraforming has become remarkably easy given the real success of our...
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