Mostly a discussion of Shapiro’s 1599–topicality in Shakespeare–and laying the groundwork for subsequent classes. Please join the conversation on AIM at 8:00 EST if you’re able. I’ll make it available elsewhere for those who can’t attend. I’m vermontaigne.
Please email me whether or not you’ll be able to attend tonight. There will be discussion of material, but much of this will be focused on organizational matters.
I’m stuck in an Alabama hotel room, and my work PC won’t let me download AIM (and AIM express isn’t working). So I’ll attempt to follow along on my blackberry (though it will hamper my ability to contribute).
When I come to this blog, I expect dancing armadillos, not metapoetics………
I’m just hoping there will be a blog, come April.
oh. I have that book. I don’t think I can participate tonight but I will see where I am at 8. oh. You mean 5. Can’t. Shoot. I’m usually not this flaky.
oh. well yeah I kinda am
“Mostly a discussion of Shapiro’s 1599–topicality in Shakespeare–and laying the groundwork for subsequent classes.”
But, Dan… you’re so good at dick and fart jokes.
Shakespeare?
Fine. I’ll sit there and won’t ask any questions.
I’ll be the one in the back reading a Hellboy comic while you’re talking.
Relax. I’ll hide it in a over sized copy of “Hamlet” or “Macbeth” or something.
I’ll try. I’m at work.
Question.
I haven’t used an instant message thing for over 10 years. I downloaded the AIM thing. Is there a special chat room I have to go to?
No, there’s no special chat room. You just send me a message.
Um, how does one go about “sending you a message?” Haven’t plagued you with an email before, so not sure how this AIM doohickey goes.
No goof. I’m with geoffb on this one. I signed up for AIM 6.8, got the “dashboard” thingy and whatnot. Now what do I/we do?
You should type in my username, vermontaigne.
Or just email me your handle. vermontaigne-at-gmail-dot-com
Thanks Lamont. I was beginning to feel like the only “big dummy”.
Dan:
I’d absolutely love to participate, but I spend nearly every waking moment reading and writing about LAN technology, so by the time I have a spare moment, the reading/analytical part of my brain is pretty much burned out.
Maybe I can jump in later, maybe not. I’ll see what happens.
Looks like you can create a chat but it dies 24 hours after the last person leaves. Have to create a new one each time or have someone always there.
You sure found enough time to have a loud conversation with yourself when you picked-up Alinsky’s fine work. In LANs there’s little that compares to Shakespeare, I mean seriously, the fast breaking news in ports and firewalls can wait. And please, bitch, even if I sniffed your packets I’d never sniff that wide impression you make on your couch cushion. Add 2+2, do yourself a favor and be a player.
Thespian Dan is way worth it.
thor,
You should take Dan’s course, being the Master Thespian that you are…
Or at least send him some do-re-mi, since you’re loaded and such…
Think of it as repaying him for all of the fun you’ve had commenting on his threads over the years…
Maybe send Jeff somethin’ too while you’re at it…
In fact, you should be a PW sponsor, and write your own essays for all of us hichtard, chill-billies, and RethugliKKKans to comment on!
What is AIM?
AOL Instant Messenger, Mikey. I didn’t know what it was either until I started dating a younger woman.
Anticipating your next question, AOL is “America Online.” Which, come to think of it, it should probably just be “AO.” But then again that could lead to confusion and a whole lot of people getting shot.
Oh. I have AOL. I’ve never used instant messenger, and haven’t the foggiest idea about it.
I’m not very ‘techie’.
I hadn’t used IM for over 10 years until last night. Noticed a couple of things. AIM uses some of the worst web page combination of colors. Very hard to read and when you try to enlarge the scale in Firefox text starts overlapping text. Luckily the main IM page only has the top bar in bad colors.
They also, for all the graphics of how wonderful their IM is, have very little in the way of user info to guide you in how to use the IM. Their “help” is somewhat less than helpful.
Very much like cell phones. So very many features on top of features. Poorly explained and laid out. Making the basic use more complicated than needed.
Or I’m just an old fogy. One who has used computers since the early 70’s and been online since the early 90’s. Make that a really old fogy.