This semester, I am using course release time to focus on a research project that I am tentatively titling, “The Language of Computers in Science Fiction, 1975-1995.” Most of my readings come from SF magazines, but I’m finding some material in anthologies, too. More to follow…stay tuned.
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Retrocomputing at City Tech Site Updated with Software Inventory
Recently, I posted about the new OpenLab site that I launched for “Retrocomputing at City Tech.” On the site, I included a photographic inventory of the computing hardware and peripherals that I have on-hand in my office in Namm 520. Now, I’ve added to the site with a second page that inventories a majority of …
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Computer Upgrades: HDD and RAM
My desktop PC, which I wrote about its build and benchmarks previously, has performed very well since I built it late last year. However, I built it on a budget, so I wasn’t able to outfit it as well as I would have liked. After deciding that I would use the desktop computer as my …
Spring Recess 2015: Reading, Exploring, and Making
I had a fun and productive time during this year’s Spring Recess in our new home of Brooklyn. I read three brain-related books: Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid, Michael Moskowitz’s Reading Minds, and Antonio Damasio’s Looking for Spinoza. I took the subway to Manhattan twice with Y and Little My to visit Kinokuniya Bookstore, Sun …
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Spring Break Update 2014
This is Georgia Tech’s spring break week, so I’ve decided to pause my Recovered Writing project. It will restart Monday, March 24. In the meantime, you can catch up on it so far by going here. While (I hope) my students are resting and recuperating from the spring semester thus far, I will be working. …
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