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BRCC Commencement 2012

By ~LS~ On May 18, 2012 · Add Comment · In I have to work? and tagged Tagged With: BRCC, D&D, Geek, Teaching, What I Did Today

Today I had the joy of witnessing BRCC’s commencement ceremony. I had more fun at today’s ceremony than at most any other I’ve attended. There have been some momentous ones, where I’ve hooded advisees or watched favorite cohorts graduate or where I graduated myself, but this one was particularly joyous.

Today I got to sit on the stage and watch the students as they shook hands with the Chancellor, posed for the photographer, and clutched their diploma folder.

Now, I’ve done that many times before, but at a university. The ceremony at USF was impersonal. When I saw my students “walk” I had feelings of tenderness, but nothing like today. Today the sheer aura of success radiated off the students’ faces. You can see that from the floor, where I usually sit, but right on the stage, it’s blinding. It made me giddy.

By now I’m a broken record about [...]

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D&D Fortune Cookies

By ~LS~ On March 10, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Humor, I have to work? and tagged Tagged With: BRCC, D&D, Geek, Humor, Silliness, Speech

At the beginning of the semester I had to give a speech at convocation to the entire faculty, staff, and administration. I chose to speak about why the start of a new semester is like a fortune cookie. Throughout the speech I periodically opened up a fortune cookie, read the fortune, and made a comment. It was a fun speech and people liked it. They are still giving me fortune cookies and making jokes about it. I keep trying to explain to them that I don’t necessarily like to eat fortune cookies, I use them during Dungeons and Dragons. I just like to take the fortunes out and put them on the D&D battle mat. They give me a blank look, shake their head, and shove a stale fortune cookie my way. (Note: All fortune cookies are stale, right?)

So, it’s easier just to show you a picture than to [...]

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10 Random Musings (#10 is the best)

By ~LS~ On September 18, 2009 · Add Comment · In Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: D&D, For Wordies, Generations, Obama, Politics, Pop Culture, Race

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Dungeons and Dragons, MarySue, and Me

By ~LS~ On June 17, 2009 · Add Comment · In The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: D&D, Geek, Goals, What I Did Today

I am almost done with cleaning my office. What’s left is the hardest part. My filing cabinet. I’ve done some preliminary cleaning of files, but most of the work remains. I’ve started cleaning and de-cluttering other parts of the house. It feels productive, but the truth is that I’m avoiding the ominous filing cabinets.

The other day I found a videotape of an interview I did with my grandmother a couple of years before she died. I sent it off to be converted to DVD. I hope they don’t break it or ruin it.

I co-facilitated a new Dialogue on Race last night. It seems like it will be a good group of folk. Too soon for tensions or complications to arise.

My therapist seems utterly fascinated by D&D. He keeps asking me how it works, how the rules work, whether or not you can win, how can anyone put [...]

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The Pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons Crowd

By ~LS~ On August 23, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Humor, Politics and tagged Tagged With: D&D, Geek, Haraway, Obama, Political Humor

Finally! Something I’m not too behind the curve on!

Apparently a McCain aide, Michael Goldfarb, made a disparaging remark about us Pro-Obama D&D players on McCain’s blog. (IMO most D&D players are libertarians, but that’s just anecdotal.) Here’s the comment:

It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman’s memory of war from the comfort of mom’s basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others. John McCain has often said he witnessed a thousand acts of bravery while he was imprisoned, and though not every one has been submitted into the public record, they are remembered by the men who were there (one such only recently reported by Karl Rove though it escaped mention in any of Senator McCain’s books). But as [...]

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Link-o-mania – A Geektastic Handful

By ~LS~ On June 25, 2008 · Add Comment · In Link-o-mania and tagged Tagged With: D&D, Geek, Humor, Jon Stewart, Movies, Obligatory Links, Silliness, Weird Stuff

I cleaned up my bookmarks today. I had too many to keep track of. Mostly they were things I wanted to blog about but never got around to. I had a handful of links that I don’t want cluttering my bookmarks, but that I didn’t want to delete. Mostly cute stuff. So here’s some miscellaneous links:

1. Marc Bousquet’s syllabus for Internet Culture and Information Society. I don’t think I could teach the cyberculture class again. I’m so out of it. I refuse to give up my text-based muds in favor of MMORPGs. I don’t particularly like the social networking. At least I blog (occasionally). Bousquet’s syllabus has them view the Daily Show’s report on Second Life. It’s worth a laugh.

2. An open letter to Star Trek director JJ Abrams. This is a list of things he should NOT do as he makes the Star Trek [...]

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BRCC Commencement 2012

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