Orientation and Enrollment Day for incoming grad students dawned cold and rainy, but there were pastries and hot coffee at the welcome. I was quite relieved to find that Digital Art students get a relatively loose schedule: three core subjects and an elective, taking up three days out of the week at most. The graduate computer labs are brimming with G4’s, iMacs, and sound-and-video editing stations — but sadly, no WiFi. Still, many prayers were answered today; I think it’s going to be a good year. More soon.
Voltaire
Going to MICA
Today was my last day of full time work for Tobacco.org. Tomorrow, I’m going to MICA for orientation and enrollment. Next week, I start the long road to my MA. Hopefully my schedule will give me a couple of days out of the week to keep working. Otherwise I’ll have to go the year without any food.
Hmmm, I wonder who else is going to MICA…
Speaking of which, I hear a major name change has been in the works.
BlogMD Initiative
The blogs4God folk have been talking about this BlogMD Initiative for a couple of days now, and I thought it worth a Blogroots post. The “metadata standards” concept still eludes me, however; it sits just across the border of my experience between art and tech. I imagine it has something to do with integrating the data we transmit about our blogs and our blog posts, and how meta-content portals gather and interpret that data. Well, since this is a metadata initiative and not a “content watchers” proposal like the old JesusJournal fiasco, then it sounds pretty darn good, especially if it leads to more effective trackbacking apps and better meta-content portals. Check it out.
FriendBear!!!
After a long and alarming disappearance, Friend Bear is back, with fun deconstructionist socialism for all. Be sure to see his visit to the objectivism theme park and the wonders of Professor Dog-Ear.
Christ Church Lutheran
Here’s another church in the immediate vicinity which I might check out: Christ Lutheran, an Evangelical Lutheran church just a few steps from the Inner Harbor.
I’ve never been to a Lutheran service, though. Any tips? Warnings? Is this something an ex-Catholic Baptist shouldn’t even be thinking of doing? ;)
“ACID TONGUE?”
Sometimes, people arrive at my page by an inane search pattern and think I’m some sort of Pinoy showbiz tsismis columnist. That’s when I get comments like this. I don’t know if he thinks I’m Kris Aquino or if he’s just plain incoherent. Quite entertaining, in any case.
Star Trek Politics
Star Trek Politics. Tim Hagan pulls some sci-fi strings through his wife, Captain Janeway, and gets Kirk to help campaign for him.
Verdana and Georgia
A history of Georgia and Verdana, and their designer, Matthew Carter. We have him to thank for today’s eminently readable on-screen fonts of choice for websites everywhere. (Link via NSOP.)
On Opie and Anthony
Society’s standards of decency are there for a reason, and when radio shock jocks find it amusing to broadcast live public sex from a Catholic Church just for ratings, then something is going wrong.
“It’s the work of people so jaded they think that intellectual bravery is defined not by the traditions you honor, but the ones you debase.” Lileks says it quite well.