I’ve been blogging since summer of 2005, meaning I’ve been at this almost twenty years. My online logorrhoea has spanned two blogs—initially, An Ontarian in Newfoundland (inactive but still on the web), and this one—as well as a handful of Continue reading
TL;DR: this year I’m being unequivocal about students’ use of AI. I’m banning it. And yes, this is very much an exercise in spitting into the wind, fighting the tide, etc. Choose your metaphor. AI’s infiltration of every aspect of Continue reading
My wife Stephanie and I recently returned from ten much-needed days in Barbados. The last time we went on vacation was four years ago—also to Barbados, in the auspicious month of March 2020. So, yeah … we ended up having Continue reading
Well, it s Labour day which to me is the real New Year s Eve. My calendar has been tied to the cycle of the academic year since kindergarten, so the desperate festivities that happen on December 31 always have seemed to me Continue reading
WARNING: In case you’re one of the three people in the world who hasn’t seen the movie yet, this post contains spoilers for Barbie. Barbie ends with Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie, henceforth just “Barbie”), having become human, being delivered to Continue reading
Just for starters, I have a new Medium post up. This one was supposed to just be a regular blog post, but, as so frequently happens with me, it grew in the telling. It’s a bunch of thematically linked musings Continue reading
I have this blog as my browser home screen, which means that when I go a long time between posts, every time I open Firefox I’m scolded by the months that have passed since I last wrote something here. So Continue reading
I’m on strike. My faculty union at Memorial University, after fourteen months of frustrating and fruitless negotiations with an utterly recalcitrant administration, called a strike vote. Ninety-three percent of members voted, of whom ninety percent (myself included) called for a Continue reading
. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD The Rig is a new British series on Amazon Prime that I watched for two reasons: one, it stars Iain Glen; two, the trailer teased it as a Lovecraftian horror set on an oil rig in Continue reading
. WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD It occurred to me as I was starting to draft this post, my first of 2023, that my first post of 2022 was about the Netflix film Don’t Look Up. Well, not about that movie so Continue reading