Monthly Archives: June 2010

On the Reading of Books

By david.humphrey | Published: June 26, 2010
Much of my time writing on this blog is spent advocating for the open web, and the potential it brings for distributed, global, collaboration.  I don’t believe in this any less, despite the critique that follows. At the same time that I am passionately involved in the creation of the open web, I am also intimately [...]
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Two Experiences with the Local

By david.humphrey | Published: June 26, 2010
1) I’ve been amazed this year at the amount of Canola planted in the fields in our county. I’m used to seeing a lot of soy beans, corn, and winter wheat. But the shock of Canola visually, a bright, beautiful, electric yellow, never ceases to give me pause. And this year it’s [...]
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Great Horned Owl

By david.humphrey | Published: June 13, 2010
One of the things I look for is the Great Horned Owl. When I was a small child I saw my first. It had been killed (by a car as I recall) and my uncle, a taxidermist, was going to stuff it. He brought my brothers and I to see it, and [...]
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Your homework

By david.humphrey | Published: June 10, 2010
I spent a good chunk of today on youtube with my audio friends, trying to find some demo music for something big we’re cooking up.  When it was done I had 50 tabs with cool music, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t assign some of it to you for homework:
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Questions about books after dinner

By david.humphrey | Published: June 9, 2010
“Dad, do you know the Odyssey?” I do. “How do you know it?” I’ve read it in English many times, and fought with it in Greek, too. “Tell me something about it.” I leave you in Browning’s hands for a more complete account of a similar exchange.  Allow me to quote “Development” at length: MY FATHER was a scholar and knew [...]
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Open Source Research at Seneca

By david.humphrey | Published: June 7, 2010
Last Thursday, David Agnew (President of Seneca) and Gary Goodyear (federal Minister of State (Science and Technology)) announced that Seneca college had received one of 12 NSERC grants.  The grant is specifically targeted to Seneca’s Centre for Development of Open Technology, to help us grow our involvement in open source, and to help local businesses [...]
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On Distinction

By david.humphrey | Published: June 6, 2010
The other night Luke and I were out for coffee, and our conversation, as it always does, turned to teaching, reading, and thinking.  He was telling me a story about a friend of his, who is struggling through the life of the junior academic.  “I don’t have time to read,” complained the friend, who spends [...]
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