Category: Micro
- April 8, 2019 Sometimes, being a bike commuter means spending the first 30 minutes of your work day fixing a spring clasp on a pannier.
- April 5, 2019 I don’t really understand how fraternities and sororities work, so whenever I hear about Greek life, I half-expect someone to follow up with a discussion of “Roman life”, where all the names are different even though everything else is the same.
- April 2, 2019 Today I get to teach about copyright and fair use in class, which is basically an excuse to watch YouTube videos and discuss whether they meet fair use or not.
- April 1, 2019 THERE’S NO ONE CURRENTLY NEXT TO ME FOR WHAT WILL BE A NINE HOUR FLIGHT BUT I’M NOT SURE IF BOARDING HAS CLOSED YET AND THIS IS THE MOST STRESSFUL PART OF THE WHOLE TRIP SO FAR
- April 1, 2019 Highlight of Paris airport this morning is the Scottish “hey Europe, can *we* still be friends?” ads that I keep seeing.
- March 31, 2019 What I’d really like to see added to HTML are <scarequote></scarequote> tags.
- March 28, 2019 J’ai déjà atterri à Roissy, j’ai déjà fait le contrôle des passeports et la douane, mais je viens d’entendre le « jingle » de la SNCF, et c’est donc maintenant que je sais vraiment que je suis en France 😍🚉
- March 26, 2019 Just when I thought I had screenshot shortcuts down for macOS, Cmd+Shift+5 reveals itself and blows my mind!
- March 26, 2019 One of the best gifts I’ve ever received was when my mom sent me a copy of The Moody Blues’ “Days of Future Passed” for my birthday when I was a freshman at BYU, assuming that because it was quirky, I would like it. She was 100% right.
- March 25, 2019 Getting in touch with my BYU roots in educational technology by applying for a grant to move to alternative textbooks for my Fall 2019 course.
- March 20, 2019 Objects in my office visible from my webcam when I’m having professional teleconferencing meetings: an Axis and Allies board, a model of the Battlestar Galactica, and some Star Wars fan art.
- March 20, 2019 It looks like I can’t access my institution’s Qualtrics survey when I have my VPN turned on. Is this an anti-spam measure, or is something else going on?
- March 18, 2019 Thanks to my upcoming presentation at a conference in France and the different ways different countries do Daylight Savings, I have the dubious honor of getting to “spring forward” twice this year.
- March 11, 2019 Next flight has no headrests, which is way more comfortable (for me, at least).
- March 11, 2019 Currently on board one of those planes where what is intended to be a head rest for normal people is, for me, a “shoulder-pusher.”
- March 8, 2019 My previous planner post is only half-joking. I spent a lot of time last summer setting up productivity systems, and this semester is showing their weak spots. Eager to revisit.
- March 8, 2019 I have five months left in my twelve-month planner, which naturally means I’m already thinking about my next one.
- March 7, 2019 I have been getting emails incorrectly calling me “Dr.” or “Professor” since I was an undergrad with my own section of French 102. Now, it’s nice to get one of those and be able to suppress the instinct to correct the sender.
- March 7, 2019 There’s something about stepping onto a new bus that makes me feel like I’ve stepped into the future. I don’t need jetpacks, just clean seats and an electric motor.
- March 6, 2019 I’m trying to succinctly describe a Latter-day Saint “solemn assembly” in an academic manuscript, and it’s a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.