Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

I had a shock last Wednesday (well…a couple weeks ago now) while boarding the plane to Detroit for the computers and writing conference–to my surprise my colleague and his wife (also a good friend) were sitting across the aisle from me. They were headed off to a conference about Arab American Writers. 
Look at the [...]

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One of the nights that we were running around Detroit a colleague kept telling us stories about her former boyfriends. There was the boyfriend with the short arms. The boyfriend during graduate school. The boyfriend with the irritating mother who wanted to teach her to cook. ETC… And of course, the focus here is on [...]

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Let’s just start with WOW! The folks who organized this workshop did a great job of providing resources, providing quick introductions and leaving time for play. As those of you who occasionally swing by and read my blog know, both my dissertation research as well as other assessment data from workshops I have facilitated indicates, [...]

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About five years ago, a couple of my friends/colleagues and realized that we all liked to keep track of funky bathrooms. Since then, when we find a funky bathroom we generally try to bring it to one another’s attention. This past week when I was in Detroit at Computers & Writing I was with one [...]

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Now that I’ve understood what Greasemonkey does for about two weeks, I’m still trying to find scripts and play with it. This Adaptive Blue seems like another page adapter.
Greasemonkey
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748
Greasemonkey is one of the many wonderful Firefox addons. Once you load Greasemonkey on your browser you get a little monkey face in the lower [...]

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I’m sure by this point you are probably asking yourself about the “real” reason I went to CCCCs, to learn from my colleagues. Or in other words, “Shelley, did you go to any panels?” Yes, yes I did. However, I’m not going to be blogging about the panels in my blog. Instead, I’m going to [...]

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(beware…my frustration leads to the blatantly horrible mixing of metaphors)
I’m beginning to feel like my social bookmarking crusade is turning into the continued beating of a dead horse who sure as hell doesn’t want to drink the damn water. I was a huge fan of Furl for years. And as I got more interested in [...]

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Well…I had good intentions. I got some pictures (notice, however, I’m not alone in cccc07 pics). Stacey got one video up to YouTube. But I didn’t do any audio recording. And that is what my Podcasting FPLC really wanted me to do! I think Duku’s speech during the opening session helped me to understand why [...]

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…Sephora!
Susan, Deb and I made our second annual CCCCs Sephora trip. Honestly, it’s just an excuse to leave the conference hotel, see the city a bit, and buy some lip gloss. We missed Cheryl and look forward to her coming with us again while at NCTE this fall (who knows, maybe we’ll hit shoes, colored [...]

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I hope my colleague Richard doesn’t read this entry; he would be very angry!
Susan and I have giggled about how we barely have to spend any money on food at CCCCs. Between the various breakfasts we pay to attend (WPA, see later post & TYCA, oops, slept in this year) and the Textbook Company parties [...]

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