JD – Page 13 – The Solomon Code

June 2, 2015

We Sail the Ocean Blue…

July 29, 2013

Well, so much for my plan of updating this blog regularly. There’s no one reason why, combination of new Legend of Zelda videogames and actually working a job that requires me to go to bed at a reasonable hour. And a little bit of uprooting… I’m currently spending most of the week with my grandfather, … More We Sail the Ocean Blue…

Perhaps the Greatest Game.

June 10, 2013

Interestingly enough, the most fascinating game I’ve ever played isn’t a big-name title or even a particularly well-known one. It’s a small, independently developed project that I bought in a pack of six or seven others as part of a Humble Bundle sale. In many ways, it’s a very ordinary game, but in so many … More Perhaps the Greatest Game.

Important Distinctions

June 3, 2013

This past Easter, a friend of mine converted to the Roman Catholic Church. That’s not what this blog is about. That’s a deeply personal decision that he’s made for his own reasons, and if I have a problem with it, I should discuss it with him personally and not on a public site where … More Important Distinctions

ENG 5310 Readings, Week 7

March 18, 2013

It’s amazing how little work can be done in a week. This session, despite having all of TWO WEEKS to do the homework (Spring Break) for my classes, I managed to do despicably little and had to rush to get everything finished on time. I really need to learn better planning skills. And, neatly enough, that’s … More ENG 5310 Readings, Week 7

ENG 5310 Readings, Week 6

March 4, 2013

For some reason the factual titles seem to work better than the more creative ones. Not sure why that is… maybe kooky three-word titles are way too common? Anyway, I’ll try going back to the old one and see how that affects readership. This week’s readings were all about using computers in the classroom. While … More ENG 5310 Readings, Week 6

Shoes and Standards

February 25, 2013

I have a problem with Shipka’s Toward a Composition Made Whole. Specifically, I feel like I’m one of the people she’s writing against. Shipka seems not to be writing about methods of using technology and the different rhetorical implications, so much as writing about varied and experimental ways of writing. She proudly tells of a … More Shoes and Standards

The Fan Culture

February 18, 2013

Ordinarily I would title this “ENG 5310 Readings, Week 5.” But my classmate’s wittier blog titles have shamed me into something approaching creativity in my blogs. From now on I intend to use titles that actually give a sense of what I’m going to talk about. So. I quite enjoyed this week’s reading, Shimmering Literacies by … More The Fan Culture

ENG 5310 Readings, Week 3

February 4, 2013

This weeks readings on aural rhetoric were intriguing, particularly as I did all of them while listening to music. This fact strikes me not because it is particularly unusual–most of my friends listen to music while they work, and some watch movies–but because I very specifically do NOT listen to music while writing or drawing, … More ENG 5310 Readings, Week 3

ENG 5310 Readings, Week 2: Literacy Narratives

January 28, 2013

Literacy is understandably a major concern of both education and rhetoric, and with all that has been written on it, writers are bound to differ. As interesting as the readings for this week were, I found myself disagreeing with most of them. For instance, Kress in the … More ENG 5310 Readings, Week 2: Literacy Narratives