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Sunday, 6 August 06 :: buffy, et al.

did y'all know that buffy just ROCKS? seriously.. i got season 6 on dvd so that i could watch the musical, and i gotta say, i now get it.. i mean, when i was going to xena / buffy night at k and j's place i was watching it just for the fun of their company, but now.. holy fucker, i'm hooked. and i've got firefly -- apparently another joss whedon creation -- at the top of my netflix queue, along with more buffy and angel. its good stuff and a good way to turn the brain off after doing i.t. stuff. if i don't turn the brain off at night, i simply won't be able to do this.

but that said. i'm reading to pretty interesting books right now. 'the social life of information' and 'code and other laws of cyberspace.' the first one i'm about 1/2 way through, the other i just started tonight. the social life of information talks about knowledge and information as it relates to how people interact. i guess i have a bigger facination with how we interact than i thought i did. this book lays out how we process, vs the various institutions that we find ourselves in, and how information is passed, used, and acted with and upon. the second book - code - is about how cyberspace is regulated, or isn't - and how it will be in the future. it says there's a section on open source later on in the book, i guess i should really look through the book first to find that section - because i'm particuluarly interested in it. open source is the nature of my new work, i guess its why i do what i do, and really fits my values of how the world should work. i'm definetly looking forward to that chapter.

anyhow. i know i'll get tired soon, but i'm really enjoying the glow of all this new thinking and learning. once classes start i'll probably get sick of learning and all this stuff, and crave to spend even more time watching buffy than i am now.. but that may not happen. i actually hope not.

on another note. the cats are really enjoying it here. it was hard to give up lily and smudge, but life with just 2 cats is a hell of a lot easier. this combination of ava and max is perfect. max is the big ol' alpha cat, but have has no problems harrasing him as much as he harrasses her (in this moment they are duking it out big time. i hope its play, because i'm having a lot of fun watching it.)

posted by brooke at August 6, 2006 09:47 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.