That was a doozy

[ganked from fayr] NASA sci­ent­ists study­ing the Indone­sian earth­quake of Dec. 26, 2004, have cal­cu­lated that it slightly changed our plan­et’s shape and also reduced the length of the day by 3 micro­seconds and shif­ted the North Pole by sev­eral...

It’s just a figure of speech!

No, actu­ally, it’s not. It’s prob­ably an ‘idiom’ as a figure of speech is actu­ally a rhet­or­ical tool. I have no idea how many of my stu­dents from last year have kept read­ing my journal, but they may be inter­ested to know that I’m busily work­ing...

Imagery take 2

Inter­est­ing. Watched Chan­nel 9’s pack­age of tsunami mourn­ing in order to test theory that visual foot­age tweaks emo­tional trig­gers in a way that writ­ten stor­ies did not. Admit­tedly, anyone who knows Chan­nel 9’s brand of emo­tional manip­u­la­tion...
Observation

Observation

I’ve been musing lately on cam­eras, the power of the image and the role of the media. It star­ted when Naomi paid for a video person to sky­dive with me and record the exper­i­ence. I had no prob­lem with that — or at least with what I thought was...