Imaginary Text

2026 was the summer of ice cream. Where we ate it; how I made it; what we made; and how not to cook!

We went to Europe -- Lithuania and Germany -- in June, to visit colleagues and to attend the *By the Book* Publishing Studies conference. Here are some reflections on the trip, and thoughts (again) on scale in publishing.

Some thoughts leading to a panel presentation I'll be doing at the Thinking Through Printing Symposium in Toronto this June. This is yet another attempt at articulating the 'imaginary text' idea

Some musings about the I in AI, and what we are prepared to allow that to mean. I try to frame it in terms of relationality and evolution over time.

Earlier this year I attended an all-day symposium on 'Teaching and Learning with AI' hosted by my Faculty. I was left with many feels, which I've attempted to articulate here. Much of this isn't so much about 'AI' itself as what I'm calling the 'pop culture of AI' and where it's taking us.

Updated for 2025, I'm sharing my gluten-free bread recipe, which I've been making weekly for about three years now. This is perfected and refined, and I think pretty damn good.

An update and rewrite of my basic article-typesetting Typst template, for making nice-looking PDFs with Pandoc and markdown. This version works with Typst v0.13 and Pandoc 3.6.

This is a long, rambling post in which I try to sort out how giant 'long-tail' platforms like Spotify occupy a particular role in a larger cultural plurality. And the perils of forgetting that there is a larger context. (*Updated Aug 1*)

A deep repost... I dug this out and posted it again, though it was written originally in 2013 or so, because the idea keeps coming back to me.