Category: Micro
- June 6, 2019 I got a reminder today that I do the kind of research where something as hilariously unintuitive as telling a program to treat long numbers as “words made up of 0-9” is actually a critical step to making sure you get the right results.
- June 5, 2019 I love learning more about regular expressions except the part where it’s always in response to some mistake I’ve made.
- June 4, 2019 The welcome surprise of finding that a book I checked out for personal reading will be helpful for research outweighs all the guilt I felt about using my university’s interlibrary loan to request books for personal reading.
- May 31, 2019 My kid can’t name our street and thinks our city is called “UK” but *does* know that we’re on Earth in the Milky Way galaxy.
- May 30, 2019 Nothing like the release of teacher course evaluations to remind me how much of my self-worth is still tied to what other people think. 😬😬😬
- May 22, 2019 Paying for my third year of Posteo tonight and not missing Gmail at all. (Still haven’t kicked the Drive/Docs habit, though).
- May 21, 2019 Today is the primary for the 2019 state elections here in KY, and I’m really missing Michigan’s open primaries. Not being able to vote today may be what finally pushes me to declare a party affiliation after more than a decade of not doing so.
- May 20, 2019 Learning that you can request article PDFs through UK’s interlibrary loan has been a GAMECHANGER.
- May 17, 2019 Going to see Endgame tonight, and it occurred to me earlier today that the first Avengers came out when I was still in college, and this one came out at the tail end of my second semester as an assistant professor.
- May 15, 2019 As a big fan of both The Good Place and the French language, I suddenly feel an urgent need to know what substitutes Chidi hears in French when Eleanor tries to swear in English.
- May 15, 2019 A U.S. Rep from Kentucky recently criticized John Kerry for having a Bachelor of *Arts* in Political *Science*; I’m afraid he’ll come for me soon when he finds out I’m teaching *technology* courses despite only having a Doctor of *Philosophy*.
- May 15, 2019 Being an assistant professor of ICT means a constant fear that I won’t get tenure once they figure out how baffled I am by the copier.
- May 12, 2019 Today I learned from first-hand experience that Latter-day Saint services aren’t the only ones with cringeworthy messages on Mother’s Day. 😤 Not sure whether that’s comforting or disappointing! 😜
- May 9, 2019 Currently in the middle of the long process of purging old tweets from my Twitter account, so my profile page looks weird, as though I haven’t tweeted regularly since 2017.
- May 3, 2019 Super excited that Alfred 4 is coming out this summer. I was just thinking yesterday how the app continues to impress even after years of using it.
- May 2, 2019 YouTube is a great way to talk about personalization algorithms. On one hand, it’s quite good at what it does. On the other, that often leads to my watching more YouTube than I meant to, and I resent it for that.
- April 30, 2019 Repeatedly stopping this afternoon to jot down notes for next offering of a particular course. Not sure if this makes me a good prof (thinking ahead) or a bad prof (I’m supposed to be grading)
- April 27, 2019 Reading Cory Doctorow’s “radicalized,” and it’s great so far. Funny how a story like “Unauthorized Bread” can make me angry in a way that reading news stories and blog posts on the same subject just can’t compete with.
- April 25, 2019 It’s superhero day at the YMCA tomorrow, and my wife is going to high fitness class as Squirrel Girl after years of teasing me for liking such a relatively-obscure character. Counting this one as a win!
- April 24, 2019 Sometimes I unplug my headphones and give anyone walking by my door the gift of learning about Johnny Hallyday.