Some footage of fall on campus in 2007. I needed to collect some random video in order to give an iMovie demonstration. I had my little Sony camera and the weather was beautiful. So I took a walk. Featuring “Legalize It” by Medeski, Scofield, Martin, and Wood.
iMac Lab @ MSC!
Not only did I get a dual-G5 in my office, but now there’s something more. I cannot tell you how thrilling it is to finally see a career-long wish coming true. After years of wanting a Mac classroom, Macon State College is finally installing one for the Division of Humanities. After the years of people [...]
Humanities 2.0
I’m very proud of my recent work on the Humanities web site. I designed it a couple of years ago, and since the college just updated their site, I figured ours needed to be better. I updated the software to Drupal, ditching the difficult-to-use GeekLog. The new 4.7.2 version of Drupal adds some excellent features, [...]
Pensive Ride
Today, I had a thoughtful, quiet ride. I went to campus to pick up some books I needed to finish course prep for this summer, but made it all the way there and realized I had forgotten my keys. No matter, it was a brilliant, sunny day, and the Bimmer growled its contentment. I stopped [...]
Georgia Me
In an effort to promote the student literary magazine The Fall Line Review, Dr. Monica Young-Zook and Ms. Neecee Matthews brought local poet Georgia Me to campus last evening. She was entertaining: a spoken-word poet, a rapper without music. Her poetry was intriguing, but her stories were much more fun. She was about what I [...]
Janet Murray Visits MSC
Last night, Janet H. Murray gave her lecture “Why Study Games?” as a part of the MSC Annual Arts Festival (See the poster (4.5 MB PDF) designed by Giles Hoover). Her answer to the titular question is because “games make us human.” Citing anthropological studies, specifically the work The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition by [...]