Just What Does One Say About This?

"'I think there is a movement around looking at all the products that are available — this global stream of stuff — and realizing you can tinker with them and rebuild them,' said Michael F. Zbyszynski, 36, the assistant director of music composition and pedagogy at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at the University of California, Berkeley, whose own hack is a speaker array made from red plastic Ikea salad bowls, and who has made other musical objects from PVC plastic and coffee cans that 'live in the zone of the hack,' he said."

From a NYTimes.com article about people that make stuff, artish stuff, from Ikea stuff.

"Pedagogy (IPA: [ˈpɛdəˌgoʊdʒi]) , the art or science of being a teacher, generally refers to strategies of instruction, or a style of instruction."

From Wikipedia.

Hack: "An inelegant and usually temporary solution to a problem."

A Google definition.

Old Mike, "the" assistant director of blah, has a pretty good gig going. In the old days he'd have to teach music and education and they'd probably want him to try to be elegant and long lasting in what he taught. Ikea, the perfect hack?

One more thing, the print edition of the New York Times, in the upper left hand corner always says "All the news that's fit to print." I'm going to have to look up the definition of the the word fit.