Google Search: jordan river utah : "Anyway, the thread on unique river hazards made me think of the time some friends and I tried to paddle the

Jordan River from its source in Utah Lake to the first major obstacle in the Jordan River Narrows in the south

end of the Salt Lake valley. I know the Jordan used to be a beautiful little stream, tree lined, home to

birds and fish and all sorts of nice clean critters. I know 'cause I'm an archivist and see photographs and

read accounts of what it used to be like. Well now its source, Utah Lake, is full of heavy metals from fifty

years of steel production and 100 years of agricultural chemicals and 150 years of sewage from Ovum, I mean

Orem, and Provo, Utah. The river as it goes through the Salt Lake valley has been a dumping ground for a

century and a half, and now instead of trees it has bridge abutments and old rebar, instead of nice fish it

has big greasy mutated carp that feed on offal from the meat packing plant, dead animals that people throw in

it, and the occasional poor transient who drinks too much thunderbird, falls in the river and dies. Ah, parts

of it are still pretty, but just when you think it's pretty nice you come around a corner and face a rapid

made entirely of shopping carts that hooligans have thrown in the river, or a bunch of kids giving you gang

signs and holding cans of spray paint. Just glad it wasn't guns."

Atari Vector ROM Archive

I'm just testing out the Ecto app, hoping it can do offline posting.

I'm working in the Library in Lehi today. If I can finish up my current diss chapter, I get to play my new guitar, which has languished untouched for over a month. I'll also go see "The Bourne Supremacy". Childish, to be sure, but hopefully effective. Turning in this section will also release enough stress from my life that I'll be able to ride my recumbent in the morning before work.

In case you didn't notice from reading the assignment sheet for #3, you need to read chapter five for class on Wednesday. Thanks. And thanks to the five students who came to class on Monday!

Just a reminder: Please send me the latest version of your second paper to: craniac@gmail.com



In the subject of the message put: "second paper sock monkey" so I can sort the incoming email. Thanks.

For your third assignment: Angle of Vision



It's based on chapter five, so re-read that chapter in Allyn and Bacon's Guide to Writing if you need a refresher. Specifically, your assignment is to



(1) locate a research site with people in it: work, school, library, car wash, meeting, club, church, health club, and



(2) observe that site for at least a solid hour. You can break that down into several visits of 20 minutes each, or one single visit of 60+ minutes. You need to then



(3) take detailed, descriptive notes of everything you see. It's not uncommon to get 3-5 pages of notes from a single observation. Next, you should



(4) Expand those notes with even more descriptive detail, then



(5) write an essay in which you describe the scenario you witnessed, first with a negative angle of vision, then with a positive angle of vision. Again, refer to chapter five for numerous examples of this. Each description should be at least 250 words long. Finally,



(6) write a conclusion of 400 words or so, describing what you learned from writing from these two perspectives.



PLEASE BRING YOUR OBSERVATION NOTES TO CLASS

Collin vs. Blog: The Network Fallacy?: "the argument, more than implicit in Taylor's pages and in the pages of many other theorists of our condition, makes what I would call the 'system' or 'network' mistake -- the mistake of thinking that because something is embedded in a network that sustains that thing and gives it both value and shape, it is incoherent to speak of its properties, or of the boundaries that separate and distinguish it from other nodal points in the network. Since identity is network-dependent, the reasoning goes, nothing can be spoken of and examined as if it were free standing and discrete.
The trouble with that reasoning is that it operates at a level of generality so high that you can't see the trees for the forest.
Well, yes and no. This is not a new 'mistake'--it's been around at least since the heyday of poststructuralism (and it would be easy to trace back through Burke and IA Richards as well). There, it was used as a reductio ad absurdum with which to point out the problem with deconstruction and the like--if it's all 'free play of signifiers,' then nothing means anything, and we might as well give up, blah, blah, blah. Basically, it involves ignoring one half of KB's 'paradox of substance.' "

Tour de France - Daily Scoop (Stage 17): "Armstrong said today he is not the new Cannibal--a reference to Eddy Merckx, who rarely gave gifts to anyone and seemed to relish personally torturing his rivals by doing things like chasing down their stage win attempts or attacking while already in yellow.



Today's win, and Armstrong's stance, are an interesting contrast to the idea, first reported here, that Armstrong would not seek a seventh Tour win, but instead leave the Tour open to other challengers. Would that be a gift? Or is Armstrong simply ready to leave for other goals--the Giro, the Vuelta or the Hour Record? Likely as not, not even the man himself knows. Gifts, after all, are usually a surprise until they're unwrapped.

"

Movies that "cleanfilms" won't edit:



25th Hour

8 Mile

Addicted To Love

American History X

American Pie

American Pie 2

American Wedding

Auto Focus

Bad Boys II

Blair Witch Project, The

Boat Trip

Cabin Fever

Dark Blue

Dirty Pretty Things

Empire

Far From Heaven

Fear dot com

Femme Fatale

Final Destination 2

Formula 51

Frida

Friday After Next

Gigli

Good Girl, The

Guru, The

Honey

Hot Chick, The

Hours, The

Jackass: The Movie

Life of David Gale, The

Mambo Italiano

My Boss's Daughter

Narc

Old School

Paid in Full

Possession

Real Cancun, The

Red Dragon

Resident Evil

Rules of Attraction

Scary Movie

Secretary

Silence of the lambs and sequels

Swept Away

Talk to Her

There's Something About Mary

Undercover Brother

Wrong Turn

Technology Review: MIT's Magazine of Innovation: "he address cranema@complicity.uvsc.edu will be removed from the Technology Review marketing database. Please note that it may take a few weeks before you stop receiving messages."



What a bunch of boneheads. "a few weeks" to unsub someone from a list? Time to add them to my Google spam filter.

responses to first paper



If your paper isn't in here, please contact me to set up an appointment to look at it together.

Please read this before Friday, thanks





gladwell dot com / The Coolhunt:



"Baysie Wightman met DeeDee Gordon, appropriately enough, on a coolhunt. It was 1992. Baysie was a big shot for Converse, and DeeDee, who was barely twenty-one, was running a very cool boutique called Placid Planet, on Newbury Street in Boston. Baysie came in with a camera crew-one she often used when she was coolhunting-and said, 'I've been watching your store, I've seen you, I've heard you know what's up,' because it was Baysie's job at Converse to find people who knew what was up and she thought DeeDee was one of those people. DeeDee says that she responded with reserve-that 'I was like, 'Whatever' '-but Baysie said that if DeeDee ever wanted to come and work at Converse she should just call, and nine months later DeeDee called. This was about the time the cool kids had decided they didn't want the hundred-and-twenty- five-dollar basketball sneaker with seventeen different kinds of high-technology materials and colors and air-cushioned heels anymore. They wanted simplicity and authenticity, and Baysie picked up on that. "

Just a reminder if you missed class on Wednesday. Please do the following:



1. post your second paper rough draft to your weblog. If your weblog is not listed on the right side of this page, post the address in the comments below.



2. respond to the rough draft that is directly below yours in the list using the extended prompts on page 107 of allyn and bacon. Keep in mind how useful it is to get good feedback, and that feedback is 20% of your grade.



Please contact me with any questions!

Gmail - [techrhet] thanks and best wishes to tari: "At SCSU, our Intensive English Center has existed in part on Connections,
and there Strider made a space where students visiting or recently moved to
the U.S. could construct something that was not so totally American that
they were aliens. In one class, two inimical students built bots to scream
at each other and kick each other to pieces, and they had to collaborate on
the cues for the bots so that they would work the way they wanted them to.
And Strider's spaces are filled with things he created for students to write
on -- refrigerators, baseballs, walls, bombs, pumpkins, tombstones, Elien
Golzalez, whatever -- and they did, the students wrote all over the place."

gladwell dot com / Big and Bad: "Over the past decade, a number of major automakers in America have relied on the services of a French-born cultural anthropologist, G. Clotaire Rapaille, whose speciality is getting beyond the rational--what he calls 'cortex'--impressions of consumers and tapping into their deeper, 'reptilian' responses. And what Rapaille concluded from countless, intensive sessions with car buyers was that when S.U.V. buyers thought about safety they were thinking about something that reached into their deepest unconscious. 'The No. 1 feeling is that everything surrounding you should be round and soft, and should give,' Rapaille told me. 'There should be air bags everywhere. Then there's this notion that you need to be up high. That's a contradiction, because the people who buy these S.U.V.s know at the cortex level that if you are high there is more chance of a rollover. But at the reptilian level they think that if I am bigger and taller I'm safer. You feel secure because you are higher and dominate and look down. That you can look down is psychologically a very powerful notion. And what was the key element of safety when you were a child? It was that your mother fed you, and there was warm liquid. That's why cupholders are absolutely crucial for safety. If there is a car that has no cupholder, it is not safe."

One more reading!



Please have this essay read by class on Wednesday, July 14th.





gladwell dot com / Big and Bad: "Ford had planned to sell the Expedition for thirty-six thousand dollars, and its best estimate was that it could build one for twenty-four thousand--which, in the automotive industry, is a terrifically high profit margin. Sales, the company predicted, weren't going to be huge. After all, how many Americans could reasonably be expected to pay a twelve-thousand-dollar premium for what was essentially a dressed-up truck? But Ford executives decided that the Expedition would be a highly profitable niche product. They were half right. The 'highly profitable' part turned out to be true. Yet, almost from the moment Ford's big new S.U.V.s rolled off the assembly line in Wayne, there was nothing 'niche' about the Expedition.



Ford had intended to split the assembly line at the Michigan Truck Plant between the Expedition and the Ford F-150 pickup. But, when the first flood of orders started coming in for the Expedition, the factory was entirely given over to S.U.V.s. The orders kept mounting."

For class on Wednesday, July 14:



1. Be sure to have read chapters 19 and 20, and answer the questions that I'll post on this blog.



2. Be sure to email me a copy of your rough draft of your second paper before class. Use the secret code phrase, "cheese whiz" in your email subject so I can easily sort your papers out from my other correspondence



Unrelated to class (so far) but interesting: 3hive.com, free, legal mp3s.

Hi,



Forgot about chapter three discussion questions, just make sure you've read it and can answer a pop quiz if necessary.



Regarding chapter four: Take a look at pages 72-73. There are three sample essays. Answer the following questions in the "comments" link below (make sure you are logged into blogger, or if you post anonymously and want credit, put your name somewhere)



1. How would you describe differences in the length and complexity of sentences, in the level of vocabulary, and in the degree of complexity of each sample essay?



2. Based on differences in style, who is the intended audience for each piece?



3. Which of these samples seems most convincing or authoritative to you, and why?



Please respond to this entry before class on Wednesday.

Here are some additional notes for your second assignment:



1. Rough draft due Wednesday (I will put up a link for you to submit it)

2. It should have the following components:



a. A personal narrative, with description

b. An argument, from multiple perspectives, about a local issue

c. 3-5 pages

d. a good conclusion that summarizes your discussion





Please contact me with questions. You should also have read chapters 3-4 by now. Discussion questions coming soon.

For today:



Please do all the other things that I asked for in previous postings:



1. Make sure your believing/doubting freewrite from page 37 is posted to your weblog



2. Submit your first paper as soon as possible to webct.



3. Email me if you have any questions or are having problems with anything.



4. Post the address of your weblog at the end of this message so I can get them on the homepage here.



We essentially have three spaces we will be using as we work online.



1. this weblog, http://tenmoreminutes.blogspot.com



2. Our email list, which has a page at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uvscwrite/



3. Webct, where we will submit final drafts: http://courseinfo.uvsc.edu



Everything that gets posted to the weblog will also be sent to the class email list. Please learn how to filter your email if you are worried about the traffic.