Ryan C. Cordell » Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-13

Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing-Across-the-Curriculum, St. Norbert College // ProfHacker // Curator, celestialrailroad.org //

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-13

RT @hrheingold: "Authority" v Wikipedia (why teachers R picking the wrong fight)
http://bit.ly/1SENAa #
@amandadysart I think Rheingold is right on-what's key is the ability to ferret out B.S.-in print or online in reply to amandadysart #
RT @smashingmag: How to use an Apostrophe - http://bit.ly/1EGSzs (via @DesignerDepot) #
RT @stevewhitaker TK516 is jarred awake by his phone-"Hello?"-"It's 617" says the voice-"I think those were the droids we were looking for" #
@nowviskie you were in Germany? I was, too-but not *in Berlin*-saw the 1st festivities on a German dept. store's tv wall-while xmas shopping in reply to nowviskie #
@nowviskie We visited Berlin twice-once before, once after-1st time I bought a $150 bb gun for $5-yay for exploiting communist economies? in reply to nowviskie #
@eviedc fercious? #
@briancroxall wow! my dissertation (a Lacanian reading of Singaporean reinterpretations of Walt Whitman) makes me a perfect fit! #fakediss in reply to briancroxall #
@dancohen how did I not know the newspaper archive Liberman links to? It's already returned new results in my own digital newspaper project in reply to dancohen #
@briancroxall oh no--just wait for the exasperated sigh. Our 8 y.o. has perfect that already. in reply to briancroxall #
The worst part of the #jobmarket so far? Not sending materials-but waiting afterwards-if only 1 school would call I could breathe-some #
To all the #jobmarket well wishers/advisors-I'm just venting-I know not to expect calls for awhile-but 1st time around the reality sucks #
@eetempleton That sounds really terrible-thankfully I'm not competing for any jobs with *local* friends-so no awkward coffee moments in reply to eetempleton #
Thanks to @briancroxall @jmcclurken @gerryblog @escapegrace @eetempleton @profsyn
for their moral support through my #jobmarket complaints #
RT @HouseOfMaps @ryancordell I made a wall of rejection letters during my job search-put them through the shredder at the end if the road. #
What happens when you try and delay the twins' nap until after lunch
http://twitpic.com/p0epa #
Finally convinced @eviedc to replace iWeb w/Wordpress, which means I'm busy configuring
handsfull.cordells.us-suggestions for widgets &c.? #
Just finished a guest lecture about O'Connor's "Revelation" & "Everything That Rises Must Converge" in a friend's "American Gothic" seminar #
RT @cforster: @TenuredRadical's review of Stanley Fish's latest is spot on: http://bit.ly/18EC9S (except for that bit about poems...) #
RT @christateston: RT @averylongwalk: Super-cool photo. So much for that old adage about a fish out of water! http://bit.ly/4pondA #
RT @omeka: Its true: There is now a @jumpbox for @omeka http://bit.ly/3v3F7C #
RT @amndw2: Thinking of forwarding this article to my family: http://bit.ly/UQc89
The Xmas gift exchange has always kind of stressed me out. #
Left work to find my car's battery dead-40s & raining in the parking lot as I flagged down potential Samaritans-3rd guy gave me a jump #
Now home-the Apple tshirt @rustinc picked up for me in Cupertino is the most comfortable shirt I own-and that's not the koolaid talking #
@samplereality I teach Fight Club (the movie) in my Thoreau themed composition class-it works great, but each time it definitely ages... in reply to samplereality #
@briancroxall @samplereality oh! it would work very well for "William Wilson"-in a very different way than it works for Thoreau, too in reply to briancroxall #
@mlaconvention So will the MLA follow the AP's lead and release the Handbook as a mobile app? That would be fantastic...http://bit.ly/2l5SeI #
From McSweeney's: If the Manhattan Project Worked Like My College Group Projects Do http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2009/11/12schmidt.html #
Wanted to try Jiffle to schedule a WC event (per @ProfHacker's recommendation) but it won't run in Safari-I guess the cool kids use Firefox #
DHers-what's the name for a search term using characters to indicate "all prefixes/suffixes/etc"?
Ex: method* for methodism, methodist, &c. #
@ronda_at_uva & @Scrivenings & @wayne_graham Wildcards! thank you! essay-writing brain clog officially cleared. #
*Exactly how I use Wordle* RT @ProfHacker: New at ProfHacker: "Using Wordle in the classroom (1 of 2)," by @GeorgeOnline http://bit.ly/Tf5hO #
Hoarse throat means I sounded just right singing along to Deertick during the drive home #fb #
Okay-I must unseat the evangelist Ryan Cordell, whose site remains the #1 google hit-preferably before job committees start googling my name #
Suggestions for quickly gaining google share? #

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