Tag: books
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Summer Reading Highlights
One of the things I love about living in Kamloops is the Music in the Park event. It runs for two months and is free concerts every night at one of the major parks in town. Every year since we moved here we’ve spent at least one night a week there (unless we are smoked…
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Fiction as Philosophy
This is based off of a short twitter thread. Jay Dragon had a great twitter post the other day: is there a term for when the particular conditions of a fantasy/fictional setting set up a particular philosophy? like how jack saint describes Sky High or how warhammer 40k’s setting self-justifies the imperium https://twitter.com/jdragsky/status/1584229756656300032 It’s something…
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Thoughts on Invisible Boy
Invisible Boy by Harrison Mooney https://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443463935/invisible-boy/ As I was writing this I realized I wanted to do two things. I wanted to give a review and I also wanted to reflect on how I experienced the book. So it’s two posts in one now. Feel free to just read one or the other. Full disclosure,…
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Book Review of “The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You About College Teaching”
A snippet from my review posted at the Canadian Journal of Higher Education In my classes I try to explain to second year comput-ing students that their technical skills are only one part of what they need to succeed. Many jobs are like that, requiring both discipline or field specific skills and trans-ferable or soft…