Category: Micro
- September 9, 2021 Currently reading Hervé Le Tellier’s « L’Anomalie », and it is so dang good. An English translation (The Anomaly) is coming later this year, so I’m going to go ahead and recommend this book to everyone.
- September 6, 2021 This weekend, after over a decade of off-and-on attempts, I finally read the entire run of Y: The Last Man. Turns out the upcoming Hulu adaptation was a good motivator.
- September 2, 2021 I was made aware of an unexpected generational divide today when one of my first-year students announced that as far as he was concerned, there were only six Star Wars movies.
- August 27, 2021 If there is a better way to end the first week of classes than Ted Lasso and Marcel Pagnol, I don’t know what it is.
- August 27, 2021 I often think of Nel Noddings’s argument that while increasing women’s participation in STEM is a must, we haven’t achieved victory until we’ve also increased men’s participation in historically-feminine fields.
- August 26, 2021 A great way to insert a bit of hesitation into your next viewing of Firefly is to think about how among all the other Western tropes in there, Mal and Zoe are essentially coded as former Confederate soldiers.
- August 25, 2021 I just had to annotate a class reading to explain first that “AIM” stands for AOL Instant Messenger and second what instant messaging was, all because I wasn’t sure my students would understand either. This makes me uncomfortable.
- August 25, 2021 Beginning of semester stress dreams, Fall 2021 edition: Dani Rojas is enrolled in my content management systems class but is refusing to comply with the mask mandate.
- August 18, 2021 I am up late on the busy week before the semester starts trying to write an Alfred workflow for generating Hugo blog posts and a Siri Shortcut to support a new approach to linkblogging, so…
- August 18, 2021 Is there anything sweeter to a professor’s ears than “I use what I learned in your class all the time”?
- August 17, 2021 I know it’s an obvious choice, but including « Gentleman cambrioleur » in the soundtrack for the Lupin finale was just perfect.
- August 17, 2021 You would think I’d have stopped being surpised by anything posted to the Gab blog by now, but “actually, platforms should be held responsible for content they host, but none of our content is problematic” is still a take I wasn’t expecting.
- August 13, 2021 Please also give me the confidence of an Apple exec explaining how scanning all your photos is “an advancement of the state of the art in privacy.”
- August 13, 2021 Give me the confidence of a FB employee wringing hands about researchers’ allegedly “put[ting] people’s data or privacy at risk.”
- August 12, 2021 Small sample size (and very non-representative), but my summer students seem to be on board with treating internet access as a public good. Hope for the future!
- August 12, 2021 I am offering the name Marky and the Lafayettes to any group that can make good use of it.
- August 7, 2021 Having poutine with goetta, which is like the food at the center of the Venn diagram of my life.
- August 2, 2021 Microsoft Word spellcheck (set to U.S. English) is offering the English “television” and the Spanish “televisión” as corrections to the French “télévision” in my manuscript. Great example of algorithmic values.
- August 2, 2021 It never ceases to amaze me how much more helpful a screenshot is than just a text description when trying to solve a tech issue.
- July 27, 2021 Looking forward to the “speed limits are government overreach, we need to rely on drivers’ personal responsibility” phase of the culture wars.