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How (not) to commit academic fraud

By: Kevin on 05/2/08 @ 7:51 am

This morning I was going through a couple of articles on digg.com and found this one about a University at Buffalo basketball player that is getting suspended for academic fraud. Andy Robinson apparently didn’t feel like writing a paper and posted a message on facebook (my profile if you want to add me) looking to [...]




Please delete your animated porn links

By: Kevin on 01/29/08 @ 7:45 am

I was in my Monday evening class last night and we were talking about the new web mail interface at our school. Each person in class was to evaluate a different design principle, pretty much a standard and uneventful class. I sat there thinking about what I was going to eat when I got out [...]




The Not So Gifted Little Kevin

By: Kevin on 01/25/08 @ 7:07 am

Last night I began to learn Flash animation in my new media design 2 class. For our first in class lab we had to make a stick figure that would walk onto the screen and do something. People had their figure do all kinds of stuff like dance, jump, do flips, and even the instructor [...]




I Learned Everything About Private Schools From The Movies

By: Kevin on 11/5/07 @ 7:25 am

In our lifetimes there are certain experiences that we will never go through. I am not going to be flying an F-16 anytime soon or participate in a gang bang that includes three midgets and a hermaphrodite, the only way that I can form an opinion on some of these experiences is from movies.
Being that [...]




Now that I am an Academic

By: Kevin on 10/11/07 @ 7:55 am

Yesterday I was asked by a professor to submit an essay for a book about the social web. It was the first time ever that someone felt like I had something important to say and that rest of the world needed to read it. So now that I am taking a step forwards in academic [...]




Reason Number 1 and 2 of Why Grad School is Bullshit

By: Kevin on 09/25/07 @ 3:44 am

I decided to start a series giving you reasons why Graduate School is total bullshit… So far I have come up with a few different reasons and I wanted to highlight a couple of them today.
REASON 1: People are full of shit
I have a seminar where people come in and talk about what they are [...]




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