I remember almost two decades ago driving down College Avenue seeing a dude with long, curly blonde hair trailing behind as he briskly walked along the sidewalk. “Hey, that’s Patrick” I told Antonella. He was taking a familiar UMW jaunt from Campbell to DuPont Hall, heading back to headquarters of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies (DTLT). Antonella remarked on the long, golden locks of hair following loosely in his wake: “cavallo pazzo” (crazy horse). We’ve been calling him that for near on 20 years now. “Patrick explains Mashups” Image credit: Alan Levine Patrick was my colleague at UMW from December 2005 until Spring 2011. Patrick died far too soon just a few days ago. One of my favorite memories of Patrick is when he finally got tired of my cocky shit talking on the emergent field of Digital Humanities and told me to go fuck myself. A little bit of humble pie was always the order of the day at DTLT. He was absolutely … [Read more...]