Category: Micro
- May 3, 2021 Special thanks to Google Drive for breaking the iframes I’ve been using to set up annotation-enabled readings in Canvas this semester... during the week that students are reviewing readings for their final papers. Really appreciate it.
- April 30, 2021 I learn a lot of ggplot2 responding to reviewers’ suggestions about plots and a lot of CSS helping students with their questions about Twine games. Turns out I only learn code when I have a project that forces me to.
- April 29, 2021 I learned today that “The Handmaid’s Tale” is « La servante écarlate » in French, which provokes a lot of thoughts about translation.
- April 27, 2021 Spending four figures on bike stuff and trying to remember it’s still cheaper than a second car.
- April 25, 2021 It seems to me that if you’re going to make the (already weird when you think about it) choice of gendering numbers and letters in a kid’s book, you ought to go ahead and make sure it passes the Bechdel test.
- April 24, 2021 Saturday afternoon online conference presentation means a bunch of fiddling with lighting in my home office on Saturday morning!
- April 22, 2021 I have discovered r/trains, and it is bringing joy into the chaos that is the last few weeks of the semester.
- April 22, 2021 Proposing a new syllabus on department’s class on fundamentals of hardware and software, and I’m adding reflections on equity, society, culture as they relate to ICT. Tech isn’t just technical.
- April 21, 2021 Just reread “Superman Smashes the Klan” after a day that involved checking up on Gab for research purposes, and I believe more than ever that this is one of the best and most important comics of our time. 📚
- April 20, 2021 Even though emoji are regularly part of my research data, it still feels weird to include them in a journal article manuscript.
- April 20, 2021 Working some this week on doubling down on RSS. Switching apps, trimming feeds, continuing to use it as my Twitter and newsletter interface, and trying to get more into Micro.blog and reddit by integrating them into my RSS “readflow”.
- April 20, 2021 Thinking today about all the people who have more impressive qualifications than I do but are less secure professionally because academia isn’t fair.
- April 16, 2021 Five flats between two bikes in six weeks (four in the last two) can’t be a world record, but it’s a personal best that I’m not interested in beating anytime soon. Wishing the bus came closer to my house, even though that commute is even longer.
- April 15, 2021 I get that people associate being tall with perks, but I’m more likely to remember things like how this “which standing desk converter is right for you?” quiz has only two options for someone over 6’1”, one of which may still be too short for me.
- April 15, 2021 I turn in a frustrating number of reviews THAT I’VE ALREADY WRITTEN ON TIME a week late because the system’s “please confirm before submitting” page looks an awful lot like a “thanks for submitting, and here’s what you wrote” page.
- April 8, 2021 Just because you can topic model something doesn’t mean it actually tells us anything (and please don’t ever describe computational text analysis as “objective”).
- April 8, 2021 I never mind paying fines at a library, and I never grumble about a bill at a bike shop. Both institutions deserve all the money they can charge me.
- April 5, 2021 I am increasingly of the opinion that the distinction between “qualitative” and “quantitative” isn’t all that useful and that what we actually mean is usually better expressed in other terms.
- April 2, 2021 Despite the underlying problems with the Barabbas story, this seems like a good Friday to remember that we shouldn’t prefer violent insurrectionists over those wrongfully killed by the state.
- March 25, 2021 You cannot understand online Mormonism without understanding Mormon feminism. The more I read, the clearer that becomes.