Category: Micro
- 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.
- April 23, 2019 I recently finished “Weapons of Mass Diplomacy,” the English translation of a comic based on the author’s time in the French foreign ministry in the leadup to the Iraq War. Loved it, but wish my library also had it in the original French.
- April 19, 2019 Just got a notification that today marks a whole year since I began journaling in Day One. I’ve really enjoyed it so far (even if I have a couple dozen incomplete entries right now that I need to go back and finish).
- April 18, 2019 Returning proofs for an accepted article is always fun!
- April 16, 2019 To be honest, I don’t know that I’d prefer radio to TV/cinema in *every* instance, but I believe firmly that it’s more about how you use a medium than it is about what medium you use. Dangerous to think one is inherently better than another.
- April 16, 2019 I once had a neighbor who argued that because it had higher fidelity, 3-D was the future of cinema. To prove his point, he asked “who would prefer an audio adaptation to a video one?” and was surprised when I, a big radio fan, raised my hand.
- April 15, 2019 Il y a une cathédrale magnifique qui brûle, et le président américain se permet de donner des conseils aux sapeurs-pompiers. Je n’en peux plus.
- April 10, 2019 Every year, I hit a point where my productivity system feels constraining, so I give it up for a few days, only to feel like I no longer have any control over my time.
- 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.