Machine Poetics

Things to do…

• • Apply comfortable lighting
• • Say Hello.
• • Name and email sheet pass around — begin!
• • Brief overview of class topics.
• • (Polite pause, waiting for misdirected/disappointed people to leave…)
• • Introduce the slick class website, hosted at Machine Poetics. Ooh yeah.
• • Go over the Inviolate Class Requirements (weekly writing, participation, attendance)
• • Get ahold of the required text: Words Made Flesh by Florian Cramer
  It’s on the web as HTML, and it’s downloadable as a 3Mb PDF which looks very nice when printed. And, if you’re t0t4ly H4RdC0R3, it’s also available as the LaTeX source file [2 MB tar].
• • Introduce Blogger. Blogger is friendly.
• • Questions?
• • Evaluate glaze in student eyeballs
• • Depending on glaze, offer brief overview of Arbitrary Four Part Topic Structure
• • Apologize for having done that
• • More questions?
• • Complete add/drop forms
• • “have a nice day”