http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/ Musings of a displaced UW Husky Copyright 2008 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:53:48 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.11 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss After a few months of traveling and dissertating and forgetting to blog about any of it, it seems fitting to re-enter the sphere as a participant in the carnival Derek opened last week on an article in the newest CCC:... http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/07/kopelson_carniv_1.html http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/07/kopelson_carniv_1.html school Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:53:48 -0500 Posted new Module for students in Intro to College Writing course. Vacuumed both the floor and ceiling of the dining room. Vacuumed the carpet in the living room. Vacuumed the floor in the kitchen. Did "some" laundry. Put on "out... http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/04/a_new_definitio.html http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/04/a_new_definitio.html personal Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:28:38 -0500 Personally, I'd like to see a whole lot more teachers take a stand like this: Seattle teacher, suspended for refusing to give WASL, calls test "bad for kids" Thanks to Patty Ericsson at WSU for sharing this link. Update:More thanks... http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/04/educational_act.html http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/04/educational_act.html school Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:51:24 -0500 It's a beautiful, nearly perfect spring day. Clear blue skies, sunshine, 50-ish degrees and hardly any breeze. So there I was, sitting outside on the deck in a t-shirt, doing a little reading on African American rhetoric, and before you... http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/04/before_you_know.html http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/04/before_you_know.html personal Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:16:00 -0500 Alaska Airlines was the primary reason why. Now they're demonstrating again why they hold a 50% share at Sea-Tac airport, and why if I still lived anywhere they flew, they would always be my airline of choice. There are three... http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/03/when_i_liked_fl.html http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/03/when_i_liked_fl.html Travel Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:31:02 -0500 Yesterday, I could sit in a chair, bend over my knees, and with both hands, tie my shoes. Today, for the first time in 34 days, I could bend over enough in the shower to wrap a towel around my... http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/03/tying_my_shoes.html http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/03/tying_my_shoes.html personal Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:58:04 -0500 No, really. I mean it. Let's talk about it. With some real concrete and honest assessment and no polarizing, politicizing, inflaming rhetoric, and skip the whole crazy idea of privatization, and really get to the heart of the issue. Game?... http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/02/lets_talk_about_1.html http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/02/lets_talk_about_1.html Politics, etc. Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:08:31 -0500 Several folks who are in the part of the blogosphere I regularly browse will be familiar with Lawrence Lessig. But even if you're not, you should be sure to visit this video or this transcript of his explanation for endorsing... http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/02/lessig_on_obama.html http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/02/lessig_on_obama.html Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:00:18 -0500 This in this morning, courtesy of rickydoc over at rootwork the rootsblog.... http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/01/speaking_of_elo.html http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/01/speaking_of_elo.html Politics, etc. Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:46:49 -0500 Yesterday, Caroline Kennedy, only surviving member of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's marital family, endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama for the office her father died while holding. Today, Senator Edward Kennedy, only surviving brother in that Kennedy generation, was expected to do... http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/01/the_watchman_on.html http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/01/the_watchman_on.html Politics, etc. Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:55:57 -0500 Madeleine Albright has a new book out, called Memo to the President-elect. In the short excerpt from Chapter 1, she quotes from John F. Kennedy's inaugural address: we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any... http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/01/a_kennedy_refle.html http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/01/a_kennedy_refle.html Politics, etc. Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:49:23 -0500 I am not one to make New Year's Resolutions. If I'm going to "resolve" to change things in my life on any sort of wide-scale, reflective response basis, it is usually at my birthday, when spring is inspirational, or in... http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/01/new_years_nonre.html http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/01/new_years_nonre.html personal Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:39:25 -0500 I received this as a forward and it seemed so appropriate for the year to come that I offer it here as my New Year's blessing for all of you. My Wish for You in 2008 May peace break into... http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/01/a_new_years_ble.html http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2008/01/a_new_years_ble.html personal Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:45:25 -0500 In their short primer on Critical Race Theory, authors Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic offer discussion-type questions at the end of each chapter. In this series of posts, I'm responding to those questions Delgado, Richard and jean Stefancic. Critical Race... http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2007/12/crt_response_1.html http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2007/12/crt_response_1.html Dissertating Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:03:13 -0500 My dissertation prospectus hearing was last week, and while I have been formally passed into official dissertating status, the prospectus needs a bit of revision in planned chapter structure. Two significant additions to my original plan are critical race theory... http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2007/12/dissorama.html http://writing.syr.edu/~cageyer/dawgnotes/archives/2007/12/dissorama.html Dissertating Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:52:32 -0500