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What Would Ian McEwan’s Webmaster Do?

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Sometimes in the course of my day-to-day activities, I just have to pause and think: how does my lived experience differ from that of my colleague, Ian McEwan? Like me, Ian McEwan probably eats breakfast every morning, and wears shoes. Like me, McEwan also has a website: http://ianmcewan.com. The existence of this website proves that someone must be maintaining it (the “first cause” proof); which, in turn, raises the question of what McEwan’s webmaster is like. How do his character, appearance, and biography differ from those of my webmaster? Does he bartend?

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How were those n+1 readings, anyway?

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

All three of the readings were really fun, but the highlight, for me, was probably Berkeley. First of all, I got to take the BART, which is always a pleasure. This time, for example, the train stopped in the Powell St. station for twenty minutes. What a treat! All too often, commuter trains are in such a hurry to get from one station to another, that the individuality of these stations just dissolves into a kind of blur. Now, for once, I was able to give the Powell St. station the attention it so richly deserves, drinking in that easily overlooked je-ne-sais-quoi which differentiates it from stations like Montgomery St. or Embarcadero.

Powell St. BART station Embarcadero BART station
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