My Thoughts Exactly

From my brains to Joe's blog.

As far as I can tell, all the technology that was being discussed already exists and has existed for years, and these ideas have already been implemented elsewhere. We wouldn't be doing anything new or exciting... we'd be free labor to set up and layout a blog. You guys were joking, right?

I also have a bone to pick with this residency business. I think it's great that the arts department is bringing in artists and allowing students to work with them. I don't think it's great that they're making students work with them. While I wouldn't mind attending a lecture by the Shoot An Iraqi/Waterboarding guy, and certainly wouldn't try to stop him from doing anything he wants to do, I have absolutely zero interest in assisting or participating in his work or the general liberal activist agenda that this whole "collaborative project" seems to be pushing. This type of thing should be completely opt in (undergrad research project, maybe?). I just want to keep doing participatory culture exploration and media creation, so that whole first hour of class yesterday was a major turn off because I got the feeling that my time in this class was going to be used to work on someone else's project that I have no interest in. I'd really like to get a clear description of what the plan for our involvement in this project is soon, because if this is going the way that it seems to me it's going, I need to either pass/fail or drop this course, since I don't want my GPA to depend on this. And that would be a real shame because everything else that we've been doing in the class so far has been pretty cool.