- There is a special, as yet uncreated, word for people who think 4am is a good time to party. #
- It’s JUST FINE, tho. I have to be up at 5.30 anyway, for this FUCKING CONFERENCE! Yay. #
- Now i has Red Bull ‘n’ everythin’ is good. #
- At FOTE Conference. Tim Bush is very nice, tho he did just imply that if there’s a fire, we’re on our own! #
- Odd format to the day – very formalised, but quite tasty agenda. #
- Sam Peters@Google talking about Cloud Computing. Interesting stuff, tho it all seems like common sense to me. #
- Keep hearing it as ‘clown computing’, which would be something else entirely… #
- Pauline Randall@virtualE. This is a 2nd Life talk. This could go either way… #
- Again, some smart, pragmatic thinking, that should occur to 2nd Life educators, but often don’t. #
- @josiefraser Are you at FOTE today? #
- 1st attendee question was to GooGirl – Asked what Google’s agenda in helping edu is. #
- … Of course, what he meant was ‘Are Google evil?’ #
- Wow, this is quite a Google hostile crowd – conversely, they seem happy with everything said about 2nd Life. #
- Harold Fricker@JISC on mobile technology. HF was ambushed to speak early, so not yet caffeinated! #
- MULLET!! #
- BBC Backstage on ‘Why Portability Matters…’ #
- Interesting conflict between desire for privacy & peoples rampant abandon with their shit on Facebook. #
- Ian Forrester (?) is an awesome fun speaker, without enough time to go into detail. #
- Really sharp questions about online rights, but not enough time for answers… #
- Some fun Google baiting, as prep for the Google/Yahoo cage-match that I’m counting on happening later. #
- Yahoo talking! #
- The Yahoo guy is basically talking about how his early computer life was fuelled by stolen goods! #
- James Broad is his name. He is really young & enthusiastic. He scares me. I like him. #
- The day, 2nd Life aside, is more about awesome use of data than gloss & bollocks. #
- Which I like – less Flash, more function. Simple tools that users can adapt to their own uses. #
- The thing I always think when hearing educators talk about the ways they use tech? #
- … That great educators make great education, regardless of the tools. This speaker is great. #
- Philip Butler@ULCC! He was great! #
- Test @nixsight #
- @josiefraser I guessed that as soon as I tweeted. Lots of enthusiasm & ‘blue-skying’ which is ace… #
- @josiefraser A great primer in intermediate level eLearning, mind. Nice sandwiches! #
- BTW, am Tweeting blind, so apologies to anyone trying to tweet me! #
- Tim Marshall@JANET. Future of Technology in Education. Already good… #
- Innovatinting? #
- Maria Ilia@London Metropolitan Network. This is techie stuff, really, & last night is pulling at me! #
- Hm. Perfectly good business presentation by Maria Ilia, but mic is muddy & it’s wrong audience. #
- Miles Metcalfe@Ravensbourne College. ‘Basically, if it’s got a plug on it, it’s my fault.’ #
- ’100% buzzword complaint.’ Also, ‘The 21st century always does my head in.’ #
- Is- Is that comic sans? Still, I forgive him, because he’s totally great. Pragmatic but forward-thinking. #
- Someone just asked whether they should allow their students to ‘friend’ them on FB. Thoughts? #
- A cup of bad coffee & a nice ginger biscuit & we’re back! Sleepy… #
- John Hickey@Apple. ‘Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.’ #
- Heard JH speak recently @ Apple. Appealing speaker & according to a colleague, ‘a lovely voice’. #
- Aw, man! A tiny little bit of Apple jingoism at the end marring an otherwise universal talk. #
- Also for some reason, the screen went a bit blurry. Or that might just be my eyes. #
- Tom Abbott@University of Warwick. Creativity and Media Production. #
- Score for being the first HE geek today to mention The Goons. & then The Boosh! #
- … The challenge of making the exceptional ordinary. #
- … And a Matt Madden slide! #
- ‘Fail again. Fail better. Creativity is about being brave. Encourage people to take risks.’ #
- Alastair Mitchell@Huddle. Social Collaboration Tools for Staff & Students. Slick CEO presentation. #
- These guys are footing the bill for drinks n food. No-nonsense so far, but surely pitch imminent? #
- Love the thinking behind Huddle, but concerned that, in practice it might just be another login. #
- FOTE over! Time for sleeping! #
- Reet, final Lahndan tweets of the day. FOTE was enervating; is that the right word? Hopeful, anyway. #
- Feels like finally, a few people at a certain level are asking the right questions bout tech in edu. #
- On train at Waterloo. Looks like I dodged the ‘terrorisms’ watchlist bullet, despite this weeks EW! #
- Now, blessed sleep. Apologies for so many Tweets – mainly meant as aide-memoires due to addling. #
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Found Objects
Another Way To Breathe: On The Disir
HEAVY SPOILERS FOR JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY 638
I was asked on my Formspring “Was that always the real origin of your Disir, or something that evolved for EXILED?”. To which I responded….
When I created the Disir back in SIEGE: LOKI and NEW MUTANTS 11, I knew the origin I gave wasn’t the…
Kieron Gillen is killing it on Journey Into Mystery. It’s process like this that’s the reason why. Inspiring.
MOMBcast #137 is recording tonight! Get involved!
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Peach for godsgirls
Illustration by Victo Ngai for the fiction “Sweet Dreams” by Peter Stamm
“She went to the bathroom, filled the tub, and got undressed. The mirror misted over with condensation, and the smell of pine needles filled the air. She turned off the water, and the apartment suddenly seemed very quiet. Then she heard footsteps, and Simon’s voice through the half-open door. He said, I’ll just go downstairs for the bottle of wine. I thought you’d gone already, said Lara, and she poked her head through the crack, and he kissed her on the lips and tried to barge the door open, but she held it shut. They kissed again. See you soon, said Lara. It was odd, she still felt a little ashamed in front of him.”
This scene is one of my earliest comic memories. It was the first point at which I saw a comic character making a mistake, which meant it was probably the first time I really processed them properly as characters and human.
Spider-man has webbed up a doorway to stop a criminal escaping, but then realises that the criminal is escaping out of the window instead, and in his hurry to catch them he forgets his own webbing.
It seems gloriously ridiculous out of context, but if memory serves it was part of a pretty intense and dramatic story featuring Alex Summers (Havok).
(This was me, by the way.)
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