Coordinator of Writing Studies in the Department of Literature, Writing, and Digital Humanities at SIU Carbondale. Open Education. Software. Games.
Joined November 2009
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26 Jul 2024
"Games matter in the same mysterious way that music, literature, and film does: because we love them, we refuse to live without them, we weave them into our lives and sometimes build our lives around them. Games are beautiful." Frank Lantz, in The Beauty of Games
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27 Dec 2025
It took 9 years and 3 billion miles to get this shot.
Pluto’s icy Mountains.
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23 Dec 2025
They left victim names in the files on purpose because they wanted them to feel threatened and stop seeking justice. I’m so tired of so many terrible people having so much power.
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11 Nov 2025
To allow the GM to trade away Doncic and then fire him less than a year later has got to be one of the legendary failures of organizational leadership in sports history. #Mavs
11 Nov 2025
BREAKING: The Dallas Mavericks and owner Patrick Dumont are expected to fire general manager Nico Harrison at a 10 am central time meeting on Tuesday, sources tell me and Tim MacMahon.
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This game winning block by Anthony Edwards. Look how high he jumped!
10 Nov 2025
What's the most athletic thing you've ever seen during a game?
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29 Oct 2025
“Pretty good final rehab start for Shohei Ohtani, getting through 6 innings in game 4 of the World Series tonight before he rejoins the . . . wait, what?” #Ohtani
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6 Oct 2025
“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.” -Frederic Jameson
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30 Sep 2025
I don’t know where it went or why it went away the way it did, and that’s something I have to figure out. But man, in the last couple of years I have completely rediscovered my love for teaching. And it’s wonderful.
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28 Sep 2025
And across this little memorial on my running path today.
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26 Sep 2025
I’m writing a book about optimism and the hardest part of this process for me has been my ongoing struggle to fucking spell word optimism correctly
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25 Sep 2025
Is the glass half full or half empty? Who cares? The glass contains possibility.
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24 Sep 2025
“The old world is dying; the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” -Antonio Gramsci
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23 Sep 2025
“My life was without past or future; death, the pessimist would say, “consummation devoutly to be wished.“ but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched to emptiness and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.” -Helen Keller, in “Optimism.”
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