Big day today: he went into his crate by himself to nap!
Category: Observations
Not quite purple, not quite blue, and the perfect color for me.
My mother walked around the neighborhood a few times, checking the color of every front door. No one had a yellow door.
There is no shortage of commentary on the "Blurred Lines" case, and its $7.4 million dollar award to the family of Marvin Gaye. Tim Wu does a nice job of outlining the case in The New Yorker, and his reference…
Yes, I am a poor judge of my own writing. Laugh, of course, but please contain the eye roll until we examine the evidence. So, let’s examine the evidence. Exhibit A: Finding Hybrids in the Legal Industry Published on January…
I was that student that didn’t bother with drafts. I just wrote the final paper. I’m a thinker, and structure my writing as I go about my day. During school, I structured as I did research. I moved parts around…
Teaching a class on digital and social media, let alone a graduate level class, was not on my to-do list. The more I try to distance myself from social media, it seems, the more its claws dig deep, puncturing skin,…
"How do you know all this stuff?" The question always give me pause. The "stuff" depends on the group inquiring. Most recently, it was one of my grad students during class. I was in the middle of showing how the…
Know the Theory of Threes? Or the Rule of Three? That things tend to happen in threes, whatever they may be. Birth. Death. Weddings, though I will argue weddings happen in sixes, not threes. Compliments, it turns out, also follow…
Tucked away around the industrial section of Elston Street and the north branch of the Chicago River, across the street from the complex that houses Chicago’s Department of Fleet Management, is The Hideout. Given its location it is not a…