By lani 10 Dec 2001
everybody else probably had it off anyway, but i didn’t so dance of joy for me. and i didn’t even have to start the letter writing campaign.
<p><a href="http://www.opm.gov/oca/compmemo/2001/2001-13.htm">more info</a></p> By lani 09 Dec 2001
Go Richmond. right, well I’m here anyway. Here to see a friend’s dance senior dance project which involved suspended cocoons. very cool. I was trying to super8 it but i think i messed it up. so i was looking online and found jesus taking a dump at flicker.com which i would have thought to be a film site…
<p>But jesus doesn’t end there. Turns out the cashier in the art store surfs for humorous jesus sites in his spare time. he told me this after he saw my jesus wallet (which i purchased at “Frank’s House of Deals” in Lewiston, Maine). so for a serious (seriously funny? seriously scary? seriously hope none of y’all are christian.) christian site there is <a href="http://www.jesuspals.com">jesuspals.com</a>…not related to south park though perhaps the inspiration.</p>
<p>i also met a serious jesus freak last night. but i tried to be nice.</p> By lani 01 Dec 2001
The original title was to read, “Metamorphiction and identifying my reservations with new media” but that was gargantuan and it’s 4am. Not to mention that i had reservations concerning the subject heading itself and whether or not “new media” was an appropriate description. Is it hypertext? Is it cybertext? Will I get a brain tumor thinking about it? Will I later find myself reveling in the fact that I have a brain tumor and find myself calling it pet names? These are all serious things to consider when dealing with blerphhht.
<p>But seriously, i am interested in all this jarble but have sometimes have a hard time wrapping my head around it. Mostly because i took a hypertext short term class with <a href="http://www.bates.edu/~dkolb">David Kolb</a>, where he would lecture us on rhizomal structure, non-linearity vs. multi-linearity, the effects of authorial control, etc…and then every once in a while throw in something about truisms, virtual/reality, and spaces vs. places. I got caught up on one of the major considerations (i think anyway) of when is a reading finished in a reader/writer/reader interactive affair and never (or haven’t yet…) finished my project. Ultimately the reader make the final decision of when to stop but when they do, will they have a sense of completeness…which leaves the author to decide how much control (via link:node mass ratio) do they want to implement.</p>
<p>Anyway, this whole thing was to provide the link to Jeff Noon’s work <a href="http://www.cobralingus.com"> “Cobralingus”</a> as well as a dialogue betweek Mark Amerika and Jeff Noon on what they somtimes call <a href="http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?2426">Dub Fiction. Inspired by dub reggae, well…i think it speaks better for itself. </p>
<p><blockquote>Cobralingus is a literary revolution. It explores new ways of creating stories, using only imaginary technologies and the strangely twisted pathways inside Jeff Noon’s head. </p>
<p>Jeff Noon transforms techniques from dance music into a whole new approach to the production of words. He begins with his own fiction, or pieces ‘sampled’ from Shakespeare, Thomas De Quincy or Zane Grey. These are playfully ‘remixed’ by the Cobralingus Engine, producing fiction, poems, songs and visually stunning text. </blockquote></p> By lani 30 Nov 2001
that’s friday Nov. 30th at 8pm ET. I’m not sure how their going to manage everyone but you need to register at msn.com. oh the excitement…i must also credit msn with alerting me of williamshatner.com. why fight the inevitable?
By lani 27 Nov 2001
1)remember to breath deeply. oxygen is very important to make sure that your anxieties are birthed in a ball or football shape and not in an explosion of ‘why’ and ‘what the…’
<p>2)push with greater force than it pushes you…but not so much that you’ll poke someone’s eye out in the release.</p>
<p>3)remember not to feed it once it’s out, because they are self-replicating.</p> By lani 19 Nov 2001
i will shamelessly admit that half my drive to pursue the sciences came from watching ‘real genius’ one too many times as a child. and that the true allure of being a chem major had to be the liquid nitrogen…or the dry ice…or the ether…or the absolute ethanol…anyway, all i ever wanted was to make fun and almost useless things (i still do…my sister and i decided yesterday to try to make a motion sensitive alarm clock that will run away when you try to hit it for her science project). but now the opportunity is budding, and i am scared out of my mind. i’m planning on moving in with three people from the center. our stats will be: 3 chemists, 1 engineer; 50% PhDs. The guys already tried bidding for an EEG on ebay. Thank god they were out-bid. I’m going to wake up one day in restraints with electrodes attached to my newly shorn head. i am scared, yet strangely turned on.
By lani 17 Nov 2001
ok, i have four hours to figure out what a cocktail dress is and furthermore how to dress to impress but not out-do the bosses wife. actually, i don’t really care about that…i’m more trying to figure out if my vintage dresses are cocktail or formal…if it breaks at the natural waistline into a full skirt, does that mean it’s just from the 50’s or does that mean it’s formal. i feel like this is some random information that Kamden would know. Kam? Kam? what time is it in China?
By lani 15 Nov 2001
well, anthrax finally made it on base. it was positively identified on one of the packages in building 32.
By lani 07 Nov 2001
test test test test…with syncopation now.
<p>i read an article in New Scientist today on bioterrorism. The powers that be suspect that the anthrax used in the recent mail attacks were weaponized using the secret US method. They suspect this because the particles were all between 1.5 and 3 microns in size. True, it could have been sifted, but further tests are being done to figure this out. As far as I know, it can be difficult to make homogenous sized particles at the micron and sub-micron level. I’m assuming that this is the evidence that has made spokespersons suspect sophisticated scientists manufactured the anthrax powder. Whether or not the powder was manufactured by the same person(s) who mailed the the letter seems to still be under investigation.</p>