Category: Micro
- June 20, 2021 Turns out a great way to get distracted from a Disney+ show you’re enjoying is to think “this franchise should be in the public domain by now.”
- June 19, 2021 Listening to the 1940s anti-KKK Superman radio serial while cleaning up lunch dishes.
- June 17, 2021 Experiencing the best of being a peer reviewer today. Article is genuinely good, and I really want to see it get published, but I also know specific things that will make it stronger before it gets there.
- June 8, 2021 Won a $25 gift card to local indy bookstore from local library. Went to bookstore and wound up spending an ADDITIONAL $50, so it looks like everybody won this round.
- June 8, 2021 PhD programs can be different from each other, but so many PhD students and their instructors believe that everyone will understand their particular lingo and milestones if they just throw them around.
- June 7, 2021 Just got a phishing email that was subtle and well thought out enough that I almost didn’t recognize it. Those are the scariest kinds.
- June 4, 2021 Today is “change my files and folders scheme and see what software breaks” day. Grateful for here::here() so that I’m not terrified of implications for #rstats.
- June 4, 2021 One of my pettiest of peeves is the conflation of the term “UFO” with “aliens” even though the entire value of the term is in acknowledging the unidentifiable without reading any more into it.
- June 3, 2021 Got stitches in a pinky finger last night, and adjusting my touch typing, while annoying, has gone surprisingly smoothly. May help that I had a thumb in bandages for most of my first semester of college.
- May 22, 2021 Il paraît que j’ai choisi la bonne année de commencer à regarder Eurovision ! 🇫🇷🇨🇭
- May 22, 2021 The New York Times is liveblogging Eurovision, which I find surprising, delightful, and genuinely helpful.
- May 22, 2021 This afternoon, we begin what will hopefully become an annual tradition of watching the Eurovision final.
- May 20, 2021 If dozens of CAPTCHAs are any indication, Google’s working hard on traffic lights, crosswalks, and fire hydrants today. So proud of all I’m contributing to AI without compensation because it’s the only way to access this site.
- May 14, 2021 Just got one of those emails that makes me very glad I gave a student flexibility no matter how inconvenient it was for end of semester. It’s helpful to remember that many students are dealing with way more important things than my class.
- May 13, 2021 I know someone who apparently agreed to review three articles the same week as final grading, and boy does he look dumb staring back from the mirror.
- May 9, 2021 Looking back, I owe a lot to the semester I took both “Intro to CS” and “History of French,” which culminated in writing a Java program to help with a “invent your own Romance language” group final.
- May 7, 2021 Was not expecting the S2 “For All Mankind” finale to influence my feelings on nuclear disarmament that much, but here we are.
- May 7, 2021 Today I learned that if you replace code that’s held together by other code serving the role of duct tape with actual good code but forget to remove the metaphorical duct tape, the good code still doesn’t work.
- May 7, 2021 What is the most soothing form of digital data collection, and why is it forum scraping?
- 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.