Monthly Archives: March 2011

Lazy Sunday, Lazy Monday, Lazy Muncie

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Nick Matthews

As I’m busy writing an essay this evening, I’ll leave you with some videos from the past. Here’s the SNL skit Lazy Sunday. It’s loaded from the NBC site, so it takes awhile to load. Here’s the response video Lazy … Continue reading →

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Contempt of Parliament

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Nick Matthews

I’ve got two major essays that I’m trying to write, so I’ll try and keep this somewhat brief. Today, the Canadian Government (or should that be the Harper Government?) fell, after a non-confidence vote in the House of Commons about … Continue reading →

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Convergence Culture and Fan Fiction

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Nick Matthews

So I’ve been reading Henry Jenkins’ book Convergence Culture, which talks a great deal about new forms of interaction with media. One chapter, Why Heather Can Write: Media Literacy and the Harry Potter Wars caused me a bit of trouble. … Continue reading →

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Kindle for Academics

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Nick Matthews

Currently, no ebook reader appears to completely solve my needs. Some come close in some areas, while still making things unnecessarily complicated in the final steps of the solution. Some ebook readers, such as the Kobo, quickly fail to solve … Continue reading →

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Bad Commercials: I Keep Hearing It Twice

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Nick Matthews

I’ve been irritated by commercials before in the past, but over the past year, I’ve become better at analyzing why certain commercials annoy me. The most recent commercial to raise my ire is one for Rogers TV. Since the primary … Continue reading →

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Daylight Savings Time

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Nick Matthews

The DST Time change has effectively sapped me of all energy this week. I have lots of things to blog about, but they’re likely not going to happen this week. It’s 11:20PM, and I still have another 30 pages of … Continue reading →

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Breakfast

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Nick Matthews

Tonight I saw the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s for the first time. The images of Audrey Hepburn in this film have been icons in Hollywood ever since, and I think that I can understand some of this. The movie speaks … Continue reading →

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Penalty Boxes in Parliament But Not the NHL

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Nick Matthews

First, I’m quite happy that Speaker Peter Milliken has ruled that Bev Oda breached parliamentary privilege rules in her handling of the Kairos funding. Her behaviour, and lack of contrition is deeply troubling. This ruling will send the case to … Continue reading →

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Paint it Pink

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Nick Matthews

I spent a good portion of the weekend priming and painting part of my daughter’s new bedroom. Here’s a tip: if you can avoid painting the inside of a closet, avoid it. They’re very small on the inside, the previous … Continue reading →

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Two Months In

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Nick Matthews

So, I’m two months into my regular posting schedule to my blog. So far, I haven’t really been able to build up any kind of appreciable buffer. I have a couple of posts in progress, but they don’t really fit … Continue reading →

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