Monday 05/20/2013

• John Tischer '71: Poem At Work

  
  

  “Not now, you bastard! I don’t have pen

  and paper!”   And I was driving down the

  freeway 100 mph with the top down…

  I skidded to a halt at the side of the road

  and rummaged through the ... more

• Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Background for clueless teachers

  If, like me, you don't have direct exposure to Hispanic culture or you never had a Hispanic student in class to clue you in, here's a thoughtful and guilt-free explanation of why the Mexican president is  called Enrique Peña Nieto ... more

• Alison Sommer '05: Anxiety awareness: oh, the things I get myself into...

  Photo by Bing Shui, from apps.carleton.edu/events/tedx/

  Yesterday I was officially invited to speak at the TEDx talks at Carleton College on October 12th! I will be working on my first draft of the full speech this month, then I guess ... more

• Cheryl Klein: All About THE PATH OF NAMES: Behind the Book, Q&A, & Giveaway!

  

  Because I have the last name "Klein" and I live in New York City, a lot of people I meet here assume I'm Jewish -- an assumption that I'm fine with, even as I called myself the "imprint shiksa" ... more

• Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Uninvited civil society

  Most textbooks make a point of arguing that Communist Party control of Chinese civil society is key to maintaining the party's power position. What if civil society is not controlled?
  
  Social Media in China Fuel Citizen Response to Quake
  

  The ... more

• Margaret Taylor: 200px-Iron_Dragon's_Daughter

  I’d read some reviews of The Iron Dragon’s Daughter on Goodreads, so I was forewarned that the author pulls a nasty trick on us around page 80. That still didn’t prepare me for how angry this book was going ... more

• Kevin Draper '10: Your Annotated Smartphone Bathroom Reader for Sunday, May 19th, 2013.

  

  Post Warriors elimination, I’m watching more baseball than anything else.

  The Jarrett Jack Complex
  Kevin Draper
  Hoopspeak

  The Diss’ co-editor does his thing over at Hoopspeak, where the topic of conversation is Jarrett Jack, the Warriors backup…well, not quite ... more

• Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Spectral Studio: 20 Sq M Space Uses Light & Dark as Decor

  [ By WebUrbanist in Design & Fixtures & Interiors . ]

  

  In an Paris apartment with just over 200 square feet, it is almost impossible to imagine anything but the more bare essentials resulting a boring space. But that ... more

Sunday 05/19/2013

• Alison Sommer '05: Passing notes

  

  Passing notes was my favorite "subversive" act in high school (maybe because I could no longer cut class for imaginary cello sectionals ). I'm not talking about little notes that have a sentence or two scrawled on them, like "Sarah loves Chris" or ... more

• Carleton News: Photo Feature: International Festival 2013

  International Festival is an annual celebration of the diverse backgrounds and cultures represented at Carleton. Numerous clubs and student groups present food, dances, music, and skits from around the world. This year, the festival was hosted for the first time ... more

• Erin McKittrick '01: Becoming One with the Mud

  

  Not sure exactly what caused this sort of bizarre sieve deposit along Turnagain Arm.

  It’s silt, really. Pieces of mountains, ground down by the Cook Inlet glacier during the last ice age, and by the smaller glaciers that surround ... more

• Micah Koller '12: The acceleration due to gravity

  

  Hi everyone. It’s been shamefully long since my last post. I’m either too busy and stressed, or having too much fun to bother with it. Anyway, since february, I’ve been working on completing the 36 required laboratory exercises with ... more

• Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Scooped: 12 Chilled Out Abandoned Ice Cream Stands

  [ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture . ]

  
  Cone in 60 seconds? Though these 12 cool abandoned ice cream stands thought they could take a licking and keep on ticking , they ended up just being licked. ... more

• Thomas Glessner Weaver '69: Glessners Inez and Harry 1942 in Faribault to 1972 in Findlay

  

  I visited Findlay Ohio in 1972 with my mom, Peg Glessner Weaver who was born in Findlay 3 June  1910.  My maternal grandmother here is Inez Chase Glessner, under the street sign of Glessner Avenue and Main Cross in ... more

• Nadya Murray '99: near and faraway

  In the second category: やっぱりoh, Taka. Lately when M does his thing at rehearsal of noodling madly away to himself during breaks, fancy double stops and bits of concerti and A's father's Hungarian stuff and God knows what, it makes ... more

• Dan Schofer '00

  5-19-2013
  Museum + Linn Ridge + Ink. 88 minutes. 12 miles.
  Warm, humid, and windy. Felt a little better. [Week: 80 miles]

• Dan Schofer '00

  5-18-2013
  Hoosier Hills Extended. 82 minutes. 11 miles.
  Warm and humid. Felt pretty tired and sluggish. Slow and easy pace.

• John Tischer '71: Poetry

  
  

  It never happens when I try…

  it’s always an accident….

  it’s not even me…

  it’s the universe, drunk,

  speaking through me…

  it is the fountain of creation

  possessed by everyone,

  owned by no one…

  it is the reason there ... more

Saturday 05/18/2013

• Erik Brooks: Seventies Sleepdog!

  

  
  

  A brand new Sleepdog for the disco-themed  Little Star Montessori School Auction. TONIGHT. 5PM @ The Winthrop Barn. Groovy!

• Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Find the Perfect Parking Spot Before You Even Leave Home

  [ By Delana in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology . ]

  

  There are countless maps and other direction-finding methods for your smartphone that can help you get to where you want to go – but once you get there, ... more