I’m on so many blasts right now. Yesterday was my first time at Boston Comic Con. I’m in the midst of grading twenty-one papers for a class I’m helping to teach at Harvard Extension School. I just figured out that a sequence of three small paintings I’m wrapping up is [...]
what made me happy this week
what made me happy this week
Things! This week has been cold and miserable and awesome. Read on to see what I’ve been up to. Every year before Valentine’s day, my office requests donations of unused or barely-used toiletries and cosmetics, which they donate to the Cambridge YMCA’s women and children shelter. This week I cleaned [...]
hello, new year
hello, new year
Resolutions are for suckers and to-dos are for aspirants. I’m scheduling action items for throughout 2012. I’m getting things built, published, placed, and pushed through.
this time of year
this time of year
oh, christmassery. I love love giving presents, and I’ve been told that I am particularly good at it. I am totally the kind of person who keeps multiyear spreadsheets of gift-giving ideas. But I’m so bad at actually making the effort of going out and doing the shopping—especially when it’s [...]
last week I…
last week I…
Skipped the family affair to attend my friends’ Sixth Annual Weird Thanksgiving. There were two birds: turkey and emu, and everything else was potlatch. I learned that “dressing” is midwestern for “stuffing,” was reminded how incredibly witty everyone I know is, and discovered the cardgame “who beats who?” (and realized [...]
news: doctor benjamin, doctor who, and posit design
news: doctor benjamin, doctor who, and posit design
So, I finished my thesis project. It’s portbou1940.com: a hypertext narrative examining the death of German-Jewish social critic, philosopher, and dialectical historian Walter Benjamin. I’ll be working on revising the written thesis this month, and turn it in next month; the official conferral of my masters degree will be in [...]
FOUR YEARS of awesome
FOUR YEARS of awesome
Tomorrow is my FOUR YEAR ANNIVERSARY with the most wonderful, talented, funny, clever, sexy, brilliant, amazing man in the universe. On top of all that, he cooks, too.
Before I met Cristo, I was an extremely picky eater. So here is an abbreviated list of foods that I either refused to try because I assumed they were gross, or else convinced myself that I hated—until I met him:
the world seems quiet here…
the world seems quiet here…
My blog is currently mostly on hiatus as I complete my master’s degree thesis, but I occasionally pop by with small updates, primarily about the thesis project. As soon as that’s complete, beginning in October/November 2011, expect a massive redesign of positdesign.com. You can still find me on other parts [...]
strategy + progress
strategy + progress
Welcome to positdesign 2011! Prepare for a major overhaul to this site, and a lot of details on my masters thesis, in upcoming months. For my thesis project, I’ll be describing the death of Walter Benjamin, a German-Jewish cultural critic who most people accept committed suicide in Portbou, Spain, in [...]
haircut
haircut
I just finally got my hair cut; it’s been a long time, and it was getting very big. I’m super-happy with it; the length and layers are spot-on, and the stylist exactly nailed my bangs, which no longer do the Peggy Olsen split. It’s a nice enough day to spend [...]
down to the wire
down to the wire
By this time next week, my very last semester of classes will be over! I’ll have two big fun portfolio pieces, and the only thing standing between me and my master’s degree from Harvard will be the thesis project. I have three family Christmas gifts left to pick out, and [...]
coming attractions
coming attractions
I can’t believe it’s November; that my semester is 2/3 over; that it’s been over a month since my last substantial post. My “Multimedia Communication: Principles of Visual Rhetoric” class is AMAZING. I knew it would be, but it’s exceeded my hopes. It’s in so many ways an affirmation of [...]
stanislav petrov saves the world
stanislav petrov saves the world
back at base, bugs in the software flash the message: something’s out there… Twenty-seven years ago today, a man named Stanislav Petrov saved the entire world. Petrov was a Lieutenant Colonel working in a top-secret Soviet nuclear defense bunker outside of Moscow. One of his co-workers called out sick, and [...]
