Status: Identity
Gary is incrementally defining his identity by posting yet another seemingly inane facebook status message. it's a sticky business, this.
a serviceable substitute
the posterous of gary lawrence murphy
November 2008
Rear Window ... as Three's Company
No comment.
Status: Work-out
Gary needs some exercise. A real work-out. Get some sweat.
He's going to start with diminished scales. In C#
He's going to start with diminished scales. In C#
John Cage - Water Walk
John Cage performing "Water Walk" in January, 1960 on the popular TV show I've Got A Secret.
WFMU writes:"At the time, Cage was teaching Experimental Composition at New York City's New School. Eight years beyond 4:33, he was (as our smoking MC informs us) the most controversial figure in the musical world at that time. His first performance on national television was originally scored to include five radios, but a union dispute on the CBS set prevented any of the radios from being plugged in to the wall. Cage gleefully smacks and tosses the radios instead of turning them on and off.
No Educator Left Behind
What is the (Next) Message?: Big Ideas: No Educator Left Behind: "as a result of the changes the internet has brought to the way students communicate and interact, universities, if they are to remain relevant, must move from the current model of education as skills centered to one that is more focused on connectivity."on a related note:
the above video can serve as a trailer/teaser for the full lecture; Mark is interviewed by GlobalTV on his take on the Ryerson Facebook Scandal.
the above video can serve as a trailer/teaser for the full lecture; Mark is interviewed by GlobalTV on his take on the Ryerson Facebook Scandal.
Mark's address to TVO follows up on his famous essay, "Why Johnny Can't Read", Mark opens with the Fable of the Engineering Student, The College and The Facebook Studygroup...TVO being strictly old-school communications has never heard of Facebook and only packaged the full video presentation for MOV file download; catch it at TVO: Big Ideas
Hamster On A Piano
Hamster on a Piano (Eating Popcorn) - Get the song at iTunes and eMusic. Check out the Casey and Scotty cartoon version!
you better sit down for this one. seriously. sit down. ok? NOW press 'play'
National Treasure
Toilet habits are no laughing matter: "'In 2008, it's just ridiculous we haven't sorted this out,' says Rose George, 'and have this linguistic and mental handicap about it.''We need to question whether we can't change the way it's done,' she adds. 'Or at least improve it.'"
Surveying Skepticism
Surveying Skepticism | TDG - Science, Magick, Myth and History: "the skeptical movement is gaining serious traction online, despite their protestations that the world is being swallowed by the irrationality monster - witness the growing audiences of the Skeptics Guide podcast, Bad Astronomy, Pharyngula etc. Mind you, there's very good reasons to be a skeptic (in the true sense of the word) - there's no shortage of stupidity and fraud out there - but I think the reason why so many *pseudo-skeptics* are being embraced (e.g. Randi) is because they trade on intellectual superiority ('hey, if you're interested in that you must be a goofy anti-science guy') - and there's plenty of fragile egos out there wanting to join the 'smart club'. Me, I'll just continue to be unfashionable and look into strange and weird things, though with plenty of caution."
heh ... well I wonder if its all the "non-fiction" they're made to read that leads to all this muddle-headed thinking!
Astroboy (2009)
Nicholas Cage and Donald Sutherland? Kirsten Bell?! The line starts here.
Meteor Lights up Alberta's Night Sky
November 20, 2008 - A meteor or a unknown flying object lite up the night sky of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. The unknown light lite up the sky at about 5:30pm MST, and various witnesses said there was also a loud boom in the sky aswell. Here is a news clip from Global Calgary Late Night News Edition that highlights this strange event.
"Did a vehicle Come from somewhere out there Just to land in the andes? Was it round And did it have A motor Or was it Something Different Did a vehicle Did a vehicle Did a vehicle Fly along the mountains And find a place to park itself Or did someone Build a place To leave a space For such a vehicle to land?" (inca roads)
