When I was a kid attending Glyndale Elementary School in Brunswick, Georgia, I must have checked out all of the titles our school library had of the Crestwood House Monster series at least a dozen times. My favorite titles were Dracula, Frankenstein, King Kong, Godzilla, The Invisible Man, The Wolfman, and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Thanks to the Internet Archive, scanned versions of these books are available for reading online or download here.
Despite walking home with both arms full of groceries, I stopped to admire this massive street art mural on the side of PS 958: An Inclusive Elementary School in Sunset Park. The mural is titled “Indigenous Flow” by Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez. This street art makes an impact that matters.
On my way back from CVS this past week in the evening, the art piece above exhibited in the window of 440 Gallery (located at 440 6th Ave, Brooklyn) caught my attention. I immediately thought of “a tempest in a teapot,” but this was a tempest erupting out of a tiny cardboard box. I learned that it a work by Fred Bendheim titled, “Out of the Box.” There’s always interesting things like this on display at 440 Gallery.
While I’m keeping Debian 13 Trixie on my media center computer, I’ve decided to fallback to Debian 12 Bookworm on my laptop and workstation. The more that I used Trixie on those machines, the more I realized some things that I relied on just weren’t working right. Once that software gets updated, I’ll try Trixie again, but for now, especially while I’m frantically getting things ready for classes to begin next Tuesday, I’ll rely on tried-and-true Bookworm.
I visited the CUNY Graduate Center on 5th Avenue in Manhattan to get an adjunct faculty ID made, because I’ll be co-teaching Interactive Technology and Pedagogy I: History and Theory (ITCP 70010) this fall. This course is part of the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (ITP) Certificate Program, which when offered the opportunity to contribute to this program, I jumped at! It is aligned with some of the work that I do in the Professional and Technical Writing Program at City Tech, which involves using technology for communicating and learning about the history of digital technologies, and it is a kindred program with the learning to teach with technology aspects of the Brittain Fellowship at Georgia Tech. I’m excited to work with the program’s graduate students beginning in a couple of weeks.
