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I love to climb into minds and mess around a bit, harmlessly. I am an English professor, but my secret passions include web design, social media, technology, Spanish, neuroscience, and bonsai on the side. I love to blog at http://www.zipminis.com, and I also write for Technorati and Social Media Today.
Local hangouts:
Home, Idaho State University, the library, parks, outdoors BrooWaha, Blog Catalog, Google +, Twitter, ChimeIn.
Books:
All of Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Colum McCann, Louise Erdrich, William Faulkner. Favorite book - Maybe As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner or The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich.
Music:
Heavy, heavy 90's to present. Favorites - Slipknot, Staind, Mudvayne, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Sour, Breaking Benjamin, Three Day's Grace, Tool, Avenged Sevenfold, etc.
Movies:
Crash, Memento (all Christopher Nolan movies), Pulp Fiction, Brokeback Mountain, Moulin Rouge, The Power of One, Cry the Beloved Country, No Country for Old Men ... *There Will Be Blood*
Recent Articles
- 9 Critical Reading Skills That Many Scholars Claim You Lack
- How to learn like a child and become a genius
- The Internet of Things is taking over the world
- Immediate Help Finding Blog Topics
- Essential life lessons from a ten year old scientist
- Watch: The Higher Education Explosion and the Chaos to Come
- How to Use Cognitive Science to Crush Writer's Block
- True Writing Success: Blood, Suffering, and Demons
- Trash Multitasking: Power Thinking Lies Elsewhere
- How to Keep a Zen Mind in Hell, or Christmas at Walmart