Monday, October 08, 2007
Where's My Jetpack?
Very funny -- yet scientific -- look at the future that never quite materialized. Not as technical or as thorough as I was hoping for, but still very readable and entertaining: a fast 187 pages. Wilson discusses everything from personal jetpacks to ray guns to robots to space elevators. Best line (discussing cryogenic freezing): "Here you are palming a silly book with your meaty human paws [when] you could be a thousand years in the future, standing in a thin atmosphere and cradling a mutant human baby with your horrific titanium claws." Same author who wrote How to Survive a Robot Uprising.
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What an amazing technological world we live in, when you can google a name and come across a former student’s blog! It’s good to hear from you!
Let’s reveal my identity...you probably remember me as John Kurzawa, I took a few class with you, and also played on the High School Bowl Team from (yikes, this started over 10 years ago!) 1996-2000. Uh-oh...all of a sudden now, I’m getting a rather unpleasant flashback of the grey-haired woman with the tie who used to keep score. Eep.
I’ve kept English a part of my life for a while now, from my outspoken and irregularly updated liberal blog; to my current career as an Associate Editor for Media Ventures, Inc., a small custom publishing company in Norwalk (just a fun-filled Metro-North ride away). Our big client is AT&T; and when your big “AT&T Real Yellow Pages” Greater New Haven phone directory arrives in December, the purple pages with stadium charts, attractions, and all that jazz...are what I put together.
While the work is fun, it’s not as fulfilling as hoped. My girlfriend’s Quinnipiac roommate referred me to the position, so I jumped on board; but after a recent quarter-life crisis moment (yes, there are actually books now about the quarter-life crisis), I’ve decided it’s time to move on, and follow my pipe dream of becoming a college English professor. Next fall, I hope to start work on a Masters, and then just keep going until I’ve got a PhD. When in college, I fell in love with Literary Theory and Criticism, and that’s definately something I’d like to teach in the future.
I’m glad to see you stumbled across my blog, and any time you want to see liberal venting, and the current administration get ragged on, feel free to visit.
I hope all is well, and I always thought they’d make you Department Head.If you should ever desire..email is
mrjcakes82@hotmail.com.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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