Author Archives: John

Sideways

Posted on November 8, 2004 by John

Saw Sideways Saturday night with John and Smita. Enjoyed it immensely. Paul Giamatti was great. The New Yorker today had a short profile on him in the “Talk fo the Town” section. He’s Bart Giamatti’s son.

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Books, mead, and a movie

Posted on November 6, 2004 by John

Smita recommends a novel about a slave ship builder called Sacred Hunger. Saw Sideways at Kendall Square tonight with John and Smita. Great flic. Before the film we started a batch of mead with the wild blackberry honey from Washington … Continue reading →

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Books to get at McIntyre’s

Posted on November 6, 2004 by John

left behind to get next month: Wagley and Harris, Minorities in the New World, in “anthropology”/W, and Rachel Harding, A Refuge in Thunder: Candomble and Alternative Spaces of Blackness in “Brazil.”

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Catalina Laserna

Posted on November 5, 2004 by John

Cataline Laserna stopped by today to meet me and invite me to her panel discussion next week of the digital divide project with Pittsburgh schools. She wants to start one in Boston. Recommends “culturally responsive pedagogy” as a model to … Continue reading →

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planning the sophomore tutorial

Posted on November 5, 2004 by John

Breakfast with Steve Caton to talk about planning the Sophomore tutorial.
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first post

Posted on November 4, 2004 by John

Today is my birthday, the first day of my post-41 life, and the first day I’ve been able to get MovableType working on this box.

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