Moving to Medium
tokyokevinThere is a new blogging platform, one that I think is better than WordPress, and I am moving there for future posts. I will add pointers here, but the content…
Teachers: Now a Working Class Profession
"From the Sage on the Stage to the Guide on the Side" is now about 20 years old. A little shopworn, but still a...how shall I put it....goal, of some…
New Science Fiction with an old twist
I am having a ball. Reading fiction again. Short stories nonetheless. Science Fiction. All because of Neal Stephenson. It was mostly detective novels in junior high, but when I got…
The Graduation Thesis: Insufficient and Outmoded
This the title of a recent article I wrote for my university research journal (Gakuen). In it, I advocate for subsuming the Graduation Thesis, common here in Japan among undergraduates,…
Disconnecting Europe
Today showed me again why I both hate and love Spain, with a little Ireland thrown in. At the end of a vacation visiting friends in Barcelona, and family in…