May 18, 2006

I have fallen in love with Casiotones for the painfully alone.

Thanks Lauren, there's nothing like gaytown synthesizer music for the rainiest most narsty May on record.

I am trying to write comments for Jer's project. He's taken a bunch of OS stuff (phpbb etc) to make an online university for his WoW guild. Here's my favorite paragraph from the about page.

The Unseen University

Unlike more traditional universities, who have a central location where mass classes are taught in cramped classrooms, our campus is spread across all of the horde controlled lands, so that we may cater to our students many varied academic needs. While our teachers do occasionally lean on bookwork to help illuminate a subject, our preferred method of instruction is guided adventuring. We quest, we dungeon crawl, we slay mighty beasts. Like many institutions of academia we partake in grand experiments and research. Our constant search for knowledge often takes our members into the most dangerous areas. We temper the steel of the horde with our refined knowledge.

Here's how my upcoming program of study is described;

The Master of/Magisteriate in Arts in Media Studies provides for the advanced study of the cultural and social aspects of media and communication. It is designed to serve both media artists and professionals seeking to develop a critical understanding of their practice as well as students seeking to become scholars and researchers. The program offers a wide range of courses, with particular emphasis upon cultural studies, the form and institutional context of media, and the theory and philosophy of communication.

YEAH! go gettem who needs dungeon crawling when you've got "the form and institutional context of media" I'm totally rocked ! wooh yeah! sigh.

Why are all the beasts I slay so metaphorical? I could start referrring to a 50 page thesis and an as-yet-undefined (okay but don't tell that to the people who liked my proposal) project option as "a mighty beast" but still I don't think I'll be needing a sword so much as my trusty 12 digit library barcode. Avast.

Speaking of beasts, I have been wrestling with a big one ever since I came home from the *camps.

I should probably be writing about my complex disillusionment with techno-feminism which came to a head yesterday at a meeting about databases at an un-named feminist art center (take the hint), but I think that's too big a topic for me, I'll need to collect my thoughts a bit.

Until then, here's some more Casio.

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