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" Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool. INTERVIEWER Does a writer compromise in writing for the movies? FAULKNER Always, because a moving picture is by its nature a collaboration, and any collaboration is compromise because that is what the word means-to give and to take. INTERVIEWER Which actors do you like to work with most? FAULKNER Humphrey Bogart is the one I've worked with best. He and I worked together in To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep. INTERVIEWER Would you like to make another movie? FAULKNER Yes, I would like to make one of George Orwell's 1984. I have an idea for an ending which would prove the thesis I'm always hammering at: that man is indestructible because of his simple will to freedom. INTERVIEWER How do you get the best results in working for the movies? FAULKNER The moving-picture work of my own which seemed best to me was done by the actors and the writer throwing the script away and inventing the scene in actual rehearsal just before the camera turned on. If I didn't take, or feel I was capable of taking, motion-picture work seriously, out of simple honesty to motion pictures and myself too, I would not have tried. But I know now that I will never be a good motion-picture writer; so that work will never have the urgency for me which my own medium has. INTERVIEWER Would you comment on that legendary Hollywood experience you were involved in? FAULKNER I had just completed a contract at MGM and was about to return home. The director I had worked with said, "If you would like another job here, just let me know and I will speak to the studio about a new contract." I thanked him and came home. About six months later I wired my director friend that I would like another job. Shortly after that I received a letter

Sorry this interview is rather long, but I posted it because Faulkner talks about his books/stories being made into movies and how he feels about it. This is another example that makes me think it would be good for both classes, EMAC6300 and DigitalText.

#6300link RT @MockingbirdDee: @purplekimchi Another website you could order books off of: http://t.co/aaGj9WitVG #emac6300 - Kim Knight (@purplekimchi) January 16, 2014

#6300link RT @MockingbirdDee: @purplekimchi Another website you could order books off of: http://t.co/aaGj9WitVG #emac6300 - Kim Knight (@purplekimchi) January 16, 2014

"Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Just like Wikipedia, you can contribute new information or corrections to the catalog. You can browse by subject, author or lists members have created. If you love books, why not help build a library?" Thought this was an interesting site, worth sharing! I love books and reading and I'm always trying to find ways to keep track of my own library and access others.

Refe Tuma had always dreamed of writing a book, but he never thought it would be about dinosaurs. After having their fourth child, Refe and his wife Susan found themselves looking for ways to get their kids excited, and as Refe puts it, "give them something to look forward to each day even though mom and dad were tired."

I have been fascinated with Complexity Theory and Complex Systems Science for some time now. The chemist Ilya Prigogine , a Nobel Laureate, is credited with pioneering research into this discipline and in 1971, based on his research, he applied his theories to vehicular traffic flow in his book Kinetic Theory of Vehicular Traffic .

#6300link MT @BiellaColeman: My Technological Underworlds Syllabus (look fun, no?) http://t.co/JKD28vcVSd (image courtesy of @johncusack) - Kim Knight (@purplekimchi) January 6, 2014

#6300link MT @BiellaColeman: My Technological Underworlds Syllabus (look fun, no?) http://t.co/JKD28vcVSd (image courtesy of @johncusack) - Kim Knight (@purplekimchi) January 6, 2014

It does look fun, and aren't we reading her book for class, "Coding Freedom?" I have to admit coding is still "Greek" to me, but I'm excited to learn. :)

No, "we" isn't necessarily such a communal word after all. It often comes off as presumptive and exclusionary, and can be seen as one group speaking-out of turn-for others.