Notebook of Sand: J. Nathan Matias

• Contents

Main | Writings | About the Title
Academic Integrity Posters
English at Cambridge
Leadership Miniblog
Colophon

2004: Earlier | March | April | May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec |

2005: Jan | Feb | March | April | May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec |

2006: Jan | Feb | March | April | May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Now

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• Contact: jnm@rubberpaw.com

• Curriculum Vitae

• Recent Publications

Comparing Spatial Hypertext Collections
Hypertext '09
Philadelphia Fullerine: A Case Study
in 3-Dimensional Hypermedia
An Accordion for the World
Review of Tinderbox (2004)
Overview of RSS Readers (2004)
LinuxWorld 2004 (NYC) in review
What is a Wiki? (2003)
Caffeinate Your Hypertext (2003)

• Recent Projects

World University Project
Cambridge Union- Guide '07
Read for the Sky
Philadelphia Fullerine
Elizabethtown College Website
Harbour Coffee Sales

• Conferences & Speaking

"Comparing Spatial Hypertext Collections"
ACM Hypertext '09
"Archiving and Sharing Your Tinderbox"
Tinderbox Weekend London '09
"The Electronic Nature of Future Literatures"
Literary Studies Now, Apr '09
"The World University Project"
St. John's Col. Cambridge, Feb '09
"Ethical Explanations,"
The New Knowledge Forge, Jun '08
Lecture, Cambridge University
Tragedy in E-Lit, Nov '07
Hypertext '07: Tragedy in E-Lit
Host for Tinderbox Cambridge '07
Keynote: Dickinson State Uni Conf
Upper Midwest NCHC'07: Speaker
eNarrative 6: Creative Nonfiction
HT'05: "Philadelphia Fullerine"
Nelson award winning paper
NCHC '05:
Nurturing Independent Scholarship
Riddick Practicum:
Building Meeting Good Will
NCHC '04:
Philadelphia Fullerine
Lecture on American Studies
WWW@10: Nonfiction on the Web
NCHC '03: Parliamentary Procedure
ELL '03 -- Gawain Superstar

• (a)Musing (ad)Dictions:

Ideas. Tools. Art. Build --not buy. What works, what doesn't. Enjoy new media and software aesthetics at Tekka.

Theodore Gray (The Magic Black Box)

Faith, Life, Art, Academics. Sermons from my family away from home: Eden Chapel!

My other home: The Cambridge Union Society (in 2007, I designed our [Fresher's Guide])

The Economist daily news analysis

Global Higher Ed blog

• Hypertext/Writing

Writing the Living Web

Chief Scientist of Eastgate Systems, hypertext expert Mark Bernstein. (Electronic) Literature, cooking, art, etc.

Fabulous game reviews at playthisthing.

• Stats

Chapter I: Born. Lived. Died.

There is a Chapter II.

Locale: Lancaster County Pa, USA

Lineage: Guatemala

Religion: My faith is the primary focus of my life, influencing each part of me. I have been forgiven, cleansed, and empowered by Jesus Christ. Without him, I am a very thoughtful, competent idiot. With him, I am all I need to be, all I could ever hope for. I oppose institutional religious stagnation, but getting together with others is a good idea. God is real. Jesus Christ is his Son, and the Bible is true. Faith is not human effort. It's human choice. I try to be the most listening, understanding, and generous person I can.

Interests: Anything I can learn. Training and experience in new media, computer science, anglophone literature, education, parliamentary debate, democratic procedure, sculpture, and trumpet performance. Next: applied & computational linguistics, probably.

Education: Private school K-3. Home educated 4-12. Graduated Summa Cum Laude from Elizabethtown College in Jan 2006. As the 2006 Davies-Jackson Scholar, I studied English at St. John's College, Cambridge University from 2006 - 2008.

Memberships: Eden Baptist, Cambridge Union Society, ACM, AIP, GPA.

Alum of the Elizabethtown College Honors Program, sponsored by the Hershey Company.

I'm going in...
Sunday, 5 Jun 2005 :-:

Test Paper This morning, at 8am, I begin my test toward becoming a Certified Parliamentarian. I have studied hard, and I hope to pass.

Outcomes are never certain, particularly in tests; I would like to be better prepared. But here I am. Faced with an hour and a half before I take my place, I will not use all my time to review. I want to spend part of my morning praising and giving thanks to God. He is the author of my life, and the giver of the freedoms and opportunities I enjoy. My study would be nothing without him.

Whether or not I pass, the test has fulfilled its purpose, to encourage me to further, detailed study of parliamentary procedure such that I am much better prepared for advising and carrying out the principles and process of democracy.

Not that passing the test would be a bad thing ;-).

Now, a final set of quotes:

The great lesson for democracies to learn is for the majority to give to the minority a full, free opportunity to present their side of the case, and then for the minority, having failed to win a majority to their views, gracefully to submit and recognize the action as that of the entire organization, and cheerfully to assist in carrying it out, until they can secure its repeal. (Robert, Henry M. Parliamentary Law, New York Irvington: 1975)

It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.(Robert, Henry M. Epigram to Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised, 10th ed.)

I'm going in....

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