I’ve wanted to write something up about Twitter for quite a while, but couldn’t figure out what I wanted to say. I’ve boiled it down to a few very simple statements: “Hot, trendy websites fail to hold one’s interest if they don’t serve any purpose” and “Hot, trendy websites begin to fall off of everyone’s [...]

This week was the 30th anniversary of the release of the first Star Wars movie. Thirty years! I’m having a hard time fully digesting that fact — I remember going to see the movie as a seven-year-old in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with my family. We went to Arthur Treacher’s Fish & Chips for dinner [...]

I got a fairly positive reaction to the last paper I posted (the Guitar Hero expertise study), so I’m pulling out a paper I wrote first semester and posting it here for everyone’s perusal. This was for the first half of the Introduction to the Learning Sciences course I took from David Shaffer in Fall, [...]

I’ve spent the past few days trying to get back into games again. Though I’m surrounded by many interesting games and lots of interesting gamers, I’ve found myself so busy with other work that a lot of the joy of playing games just… disappeared? I’m burned out on WoW (and never much liked it to [...]

Oops, I guess forgot to post yesterday. Well, that concurrent posting streak didn’t last longer than, like, three days. Oh well, I guess this post starts a new one. The last few days, I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with my old Nintendo GameCube — that’s not mine above, just one I [...]

I’ve now seen Hot Fuzz twice, and as you might expect, loved it even more the second time. For those of you who don’t know me in the real world (or from various online forums), I’ve been obsessed with the comedy of Messrs. Wright, Pegg, and Frost for a few years now, anticipating Hot Fuzz [...]

I’ve been working on final papers/projects the last few days, and have finished up most of them. I’m relatively proud of one, so I thought I’d share it with the readers of the weblog. It’s entitled “Chunking a Pull-Off,” which sounds like some kind of sexual innuendo but is really just about Guitar Hero II [...]

Just a quick post today, I’m busy working on a few final papers right now and, though I am now trying to blog every single day (you hear that, Audrey?), I’m not going to have the time for very long ones sometimes. My pal Kendra pointed me toward a bunch of great photos today, including [...]

I don’t normally read xkcd very much (I frankly don’t get what’s so funny about it, Achewood and Cat & Girl are still more my speed), but I did really like this recent map of online communities. Click on the thumbnail above for the full image. These things serve as funny equivalents of, say, the [...]