Posted in In and Out on January 2, 2013| 1 Comment »
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 15,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 3 Film Festivals
Posted in Canada, In and Out, Politics, tagged Media, Responsibility on November 26, 2012| 1 Comment »
The decision on Rob Ford’s conflict of interest case was announced moments ago. He’s been found guilty and in 14 days he will no longer be Toronto’s Mayor.
This has been a good week for Toronto: first the Argos won the Grey Cup, then we lost the gravy train.
There is already a Craig’s List listing for a slightly used Ford:
And just in case we had forgotten what a hilarious mayor Ford was, Vice magazine reminds us of all his goofs with this satirical piece, “Toronto Just Fired the Greatest Mayor of All Time.”
Posted in In and Out, tagged Academia, Anarchy, attainment, feminist analysis, g20, Toronto G20 2010 on April 6, 2012| Leave a Comment »
So I guess this blog was two years old yesterday. What do you do when you miss your own blogoversary? Do you punish yourself? Make yourself promise to make it up to you later? I don’t know. I guess you can always offer yourself excuses, like ‘but I am marking, that takes all of my attention right now.’ That is true enough.
I have written 71 posts (or 32 in the last year, see last year’s stats), and I have received 231 non-spam comments (or 90 in the last year, see stats link to last year). That is not too bad, although both stats are less than the first year I was writing this blog. I suppose it is not really surprising the stats are down a little, however, since I did have to finish my dissertation this year and that takes some time. I will give myself a break for credential attainment. I am still pretty good at keeping my comments and spam queues pretty cleaned up.
Things improved in the site visit department, however. Last year I had 12, 087 visits, and this year I have had 13, 287 visits, for a total of 25,374 visits in two years. This seems to be mostly due to the two posts I wrote about Portal 2. The first was about some worries I had after reading some developer commentary and watching the trailer at E3. The second was after I had played the game and was describing the feminist analysis of structural power relations that I believed was embedded in the plot. Thanks gamers!
Posted in In and Out on August 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I have just moved and started a new job. I am not completely hooked to the internet and everything else, so I might be a little slower than usual in approving comments and posting replies. I hope to be back to posting in September. For now, I hope everyone is enjoying the summer.
Posted in In and Out on April 5, 2011| 3 Comments »
Today marks one year since I started this blog.
In that time I have written 39 posts and received 141 comments.
That’s not too bad, though I think I should aim for one post per week for the next year.
I have also had just over 12,000 page views in the year.
Thanks to everyone who visited my blog and especially to those who left a comment!
Posted in In and Out, tagged Academia, Emotions, Respect on June 25, 2010| 2 Comments »
A picture of me dancing in my living room.
Today I finished a decent draft of my dissertation about a relational view of respect. I still have some things to smooth out, but it is now a coherent idea. I feel elated. Perhaps there will be more posts from me in the near future.
Yippi!
Posted in In and Out, tagged Emotions on April 5, 2010| 9 Comments »
When I was a kid I used to cry a lot when I noticed things I thought were unfair. My parents used to tell me I was a Bakka, which I think was supposed to make me feel strong about my tearfulness. In Fremen legend, Bakka is “the weeper who mourns for all” humankind (from Frank Herbert’s Dune). I have always identified with this legend, and I still feel very moved by what I would now call injustice.
Of course, “cry me a river,” is also a way of dismissing someone who is trying to tell you about the negative thing they have experienced. I wanted to include the tagline “The river that I step in is not the river that I stand in,” as a way of reclaiming the dismissiveness of “cry me a river.” Plato attributes the tagline to Heraclitus, although it is often translated differently.
“You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you” from Wikiquote.
“Heraclitus, you know, says that everything moves on and that nothing is at rest; and, comparing existing things to the flow of a river, he says that you could not step into the same river twice,” from this lecture.
The point is that everything changes and nothing stays the same. I am not sure I would go as far as to say that there are no permanent persisting objects, but I think the quote can remind us that “crying a river” can be useful when it helps to move things along.
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