Steve Ersinghaus

As I write this big budget cuts are coming and will hit Connecticut Higher Ed pretty hard and, of course, everyone else. Indeed, slender funds will hurt much of my plans for the coming years on the subject of hyperdrama and hypertext literature.
It’s been bugging me that nationally the country has yet to be [...]

When Obama gets into office I hope he scraps this kind of crazy idea. The Feds can confiscate “information”? While interesting, I find the basis for the reversal opinion garbled behind weird and complex analogies.
The basic question holds: what constitutes reasonable search at the airport?

My heart goes out to David Roy and everyone touched by the loss. Again, we knew Alyssa Roy as a wonderful person even in our limited experience with her two summer’s back.
I think about this when ever my 17 year old, my wife, and I head out.
Here’s to the art of life.

In semantic and social web news, information control–how to get all those feeds into an “online” service and to manage even more, typically via the metaphor of the bookmark–continues as the rush. Twine may be the answer to all these troubles. Or maybe not.
On the platform of the web, it seems to me [...]

Lots of writing on the subject of William F. Buckley Jr. As you’d expect.
My first encounter came with Firing Line with Buckley and then Kinsley as moderator later.
Then we went to Crossfire and then to Asshead and Shitmouth. Talk show evolution.

Thanks, Melanie, for the link reference to this post.
What a writer and teacher.

Tonight, Bill Moyers is redoing the journal on the press’ role in the lead-up to the invasion. Ink quantity, pressure, passivity, information suppression. It’s very frustrating to hear the excuses. The doubters were placed on the back page. Those who had all he opportunity could have made the calls.
I feel now as I did then: [...]

Spazeboy comments on a proposal by Rep Tim O’Brien that would hope to keep graduates in the state by offering them “savings” incentive:
While I think this plan will do a lot to keep young college graduates in the state, I also think it will make it easier for more adults to go back to college. [...]

One headline in the paper this morning read:
Pentagon: Spy Satellite Hit

Defense Officials Say Missile Fired From Navy Ship Probably Destroyed Toxic Fuel Tank
This is an Onion headline, right?

Congratulations go to Susan Gibb who’s been promoted to Director of the writing arts at the Fine Arts Connection of Thomaston, Connecticut. In this position she’ll be able to promote her interests in traditional and digital arts from the ground up, where, I believe, swells need to occur and are most valuable.
The technical nature [...]

Just for kicks, I added a hypertext fiction group to Facebook. Carolyn had asked what my feelings were about Facebook and, since I have no real feelings about it, I decided to add the group to promote some measure of subjectivity.

Maybe you remember Beverly Cleary books from the ’60s. I don’t. I read comics, Hardy Boys, and other things I can’t remember in the early ’70s. My son has gone positively ape over Ralph S. Mouse and Henry and Ribsy, partially due to the quality of the storytelling and to the way Cleary [...]

TV’s metaphors are interesting and scary.
The Visa commercial is the image of America (brain) on Debt (drugs) (and human as conformer).
Desperate Housewives has nothing to do with housewives but has a lot to say about suburban blight.
We’re back on Babylon 5 again. Years 2 and 3 are now more relevant than ever. Yikes.

Chris Jordan has some amazing visualizations of amounts here.
The details matter.

Since we’re on the subject of reality, here’s a way of putting it together. From Juan Cole:
I personally find the controversy about Iraq in Washington to be bizarre. Are they really arguing about whether the situation is improving? I mean, you have the Night of the Living Dead over there. People lack potable water, [...]