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This page is the home to both long(er)-form blog posts (which are collected separately here and have their own RSS feed) and to microposts (~280 characters) that get forwarded to my Twitter and Micro.blog accounts (and can also be read here or followed here). You can read more about the reasoning behind my web presence on my About page.
- September 14, 2019 I keep getting automated emails from work that I shouldn’t be getting, but I’m an edge case of what the inclusion criteria are. It’s frustrating, but also a good reminder of need to reflect on variable definitions in computational research. 😂
- September 14, 2019 Just had the surprising experience of seeing the term “NPC” defined and explained in a responsible conduct of research training.
- September 13, 2019 I know some people have strong feelings about split infinitives, but if it’s good enough for Kirk and Picard, it’s good enough for me.
- September 11, 2019 I set up a private Slack group for one of my classes today, and within 15 minutes, they had turned my face into a custom emoji. 😂
- September 7, 2019 When it comes to macaroni and cheese, the spoonfuls I snitch from the pot while serving my kid lunch taste better than any of my own childhood memories of it.
- September 5, 2019 I hope the Disney+ Ms. Marvel show will have an episode set in France where Kamala fights a local super who believes her burkini-based costume to be « une atteinte à la laïcité »
- September 3, 2019 Human Search Engine teaching activity
- September 3, 2019 In the years since its release, I have begrudgingly accepted that the 2005 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie is not that great. The hardest part of that acceptance, though, is how amazing some of its constituent parts are.
- September 3, 2019 I just misread an email from my professional organization of choice as announcing the creation of a number of “research submarines.” Turns out they’re just working on “summaries.”
- August 31, 2019 Beginning of semester dreams: I have written a not-great paper with my wife and the interim dean. We got feedback from Lyon-based bloggers (who like my Olympique de Marseille reference), and the dean wants to submit it to a top chemistry journal.
- August 29, 2019 Sandwiches and Arguments
- August 24, 2019 For the first time in 9 years of marriage and 3 years of parenthood, we both felt like we needed to ask “So, what would we do if there were an active shooter at this event?” while making Saturday plans. Didn’t feel great.
- August 23, 2019 I am generally a fan of responsive design, but it’s frustrating when a website’s menu goes into mobile mode if I have my browser open on “only” half of my not-small monitor.
- August 16, 2019 Appearance on Hypothesis Webinar
- August 15, 2019 Flipping through an old notebook in my office, I found my notes for my campus interview here at UK (nearly two years ago now), including lists of now-colleagues’ publications and phonetic alphabet spellings of names so I wouldn’t mess them up.
- August 13, 2019 Responding to reviewer who has a specific picture in their head of what “good” edtech research “should” look like. Thus, they’re confused by things in my paper that I’m sure aren’t problems—but don’t fit that picture.
- August 7, 2019 I cannot read the word “poignant” without remembering that it is etymologically related to the French word for “fist” and, by extension, to the French expressions for “punch” and “brass knuckles” (literally, “an American punch”).
- August 2, 2019 When I taught keyboarding, students complained about HTML lessons, asking what it had to do with typing. I explained that if you mistype things, you break things... I’m sure they laugh now every time I bork my website w/ a misplaced line break.
- August 1, 2019 What I love about having ~15 years of personal journals hanging around is that if I ever run out of anxiety rooted in the present, I can go back and remember all the anxiety I felt in the past.
- July 30, 2019 I am pleased to report that in the ~4 weeks since moving into my new office, I have only tried to enter the old one once.