simonFerrari
- @ Students who obviously haven't prepared, though, deserve to be told, "You're not ready for this; stop, and be ready next class"about 14 hours ago from web in reply to betajames
- @ @ Also, some students will have a panic attack &/or start crying, so be strict before but let em do-over in the eventabout 14 hours ago from web in reply to RogerTravis
- @ For beginners I'd suggest 10 slides of 30 seconds instead of 20/20; 20-seconds requires twice as much skill and practiceabout 14 hours ago from web in reply to betajames
- @ Right, and the text needs to be bare to allow them to meld & to keep attention on spoken word. No Capital Letters, distracting.about 14 hours ago from web in reply to RogerTravis
- @ for instance: "videogames are about things" with an image of Sim City behind it, 20 second speech about Urban Dynamicsabout 14 hours ago from web in reply to betajames
- @ @ In any case, the key to PK is to do it like Lessig: one non-grammatical sentence & image, rehearsed speechabout 14 hours ago from web in reply to betajames
- @ All of us have some Janet envy to work through; hardly anybody writes something so foundational to popular AND academic thoughtabout 14 hours ago from web in reply to RogerTravis
- @ @ Janet Murray forces us to Pecha Kucha in her classes. Note: make them practice in front of you; they will suck at itabout 14 hours ago from web in reply to RogerTravis
- I wish people actually did that as a primary goal. They'd basically be like vampire hunters.about 14 hours ago from web
- So it looks like if you want to invalidate a patent troll you need to bait him/her into a broad claim and then disprove enablement.about 14 hours ago from web
- @ Ah yeah I forgot the "Survivor" option was from a marine unit, not from a group of humble settlers as I remembered.about 15 hours ago from web in reply to stillgray
- @ In Mass Effect you can choose your origin, in which case it'd get a yellow instead of a red on the first row.about 15 hours ago from web in reply to stillgray
- @ Best game? No, probably Portal. Best RPG? No, probably Morrowind. Best BioWare game? Just maybe.about 15 hours ago from web in reply to stillgray
- @ Oh yeah I don't feel patronized by it at all; we ARE insular and money-grubbing, as defense mechanisms.about 15 hours ago from web in reply to RogerTravis
- @ Redguard make me so mad.about 15 hours ago from web in reply to MaxMartin
- @ Of course, our craftiness was why the SATs were created to keep us out of Ivy League schools :P about 15 hours ago from web in reply to RogerTravis
- @ I mean the lust for gold thing is a bit negative, but they're both crafty and ghettoed (and crafty ain't so bad).about 15 hours ago from web in reply to RogerTravis
- @ Yeah in one of Tolkien's letters he laments that "I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people" (Jews)about 15 hours ago from web in reply to RogerTravis
- The Dragon Age elves are a strange mix of ghettoed European Jews and African slaves; Qunari seem like Ethiopians in the Iliad to me.about 15 hours ago from web
- I wondered if Dwarves were based on Jews (re: Dragon Age elves), and I found this: about 15 hours ago from web
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- Name Simon Ferrari
- Location Atlanta, Georgia
- Web http://chungking....
- Bio Digital Media M.S., Georgia Tech. Associate Editor, Sleeper Hit.
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