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I posted earlier this week about the surprise vacation I’m about to take to Costa Rica in two weeks. Some family and friends with whom…
TL;DR: I’m switching from Gmail to Protonmail for reasons of security, privacy, and digital ethics. Today I’m beginning my departure from Gmail and switching over…
Some weeks ago, on October 6, I was informed by a Kennesaw State University lawyer that I was being investigated because an anonymous complaint about…
Reflections in class . . . Memes: the same images (Obama/Biden pictures) can be spun from two different ideological perspectives depending on the text associated…
I can’t capture how this morning feels. But I am collecting here the things that I’ve read and seen in the last twelve hours that give…
I’m attending a day-long lecture on “Addressing Islamophobia” at Kennesaw State today. During a Twitter conversation this morning inspired by this tweet (thanks @Rusul), I…
On Dec. 10, after a company holiday party in Chattanooga, my wife sat down at a bus stop to catch the 10pm Chattanooga-to-Atlanta Megabus. She…
When I started a post-doc at Georgia Tech in 2010, I started bike commuting to work to avoid the $600 annual parking costs. It was easier then: it was just 3 miles from where I live in East Atlanta Village.
In my conversation with Rabia today, we discussed Serial’s latest episode, “The Case Against Adnan Syed” and Rabia’s post last week “The Worst of It.”
Discussion of Serial at this point mainly focuses on Adnan’s guilt or innocence, and, while I’m just as interested in this as anyone else getting up early on Thursday morning to download the podcast, my focus here is to explore the narrative rather than the case. I’ll start with unpacking a word that I used early in my discussions with Rabia and then backed away from: metanarrative. It keeps springing up, so here is some background.
