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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.
- June 6, 2020 The more tired I am, the more easily I cry, so maybe staying up late last night and running 10k this morning were not great choices prior to introducing my kid to Up.
- May 28, 2020 Currently reading Superman Smashes the Klan, and it is the epitome of what a Superman comic should be. Can’t recommend enough.
- May 15, 2020 One of my favorite things about university libraries and ILL is that they’re officially there for research, but no one will stop you from reading the books just because you want to.
- May 8, 2020 Is my brain mush right now because grading is hard? Or is grading hard right now because my brain is mush?
- May 8, 2020 'with Canvas being an educational software, it does have to be tracked'
- May 6, 2020 I think my favorite official responsibility as webmaster of the Global Mormon Studies network is to try to infiltrate images of Pikachu into Zoom meetings to test our security. (Succeeded today, but barely).
- May 1, 2020 Every day that goes by in this election cycle just makes me more frustrated that we don’t have ranked-choice voting.
- April 30, 2020 One of the best things I did as a brand new faculty member was to decide on a standard files and folders scheme. Still thanking myself for it.
- April 24, 2020 The thing about getting in the habit of reading privacy policies is that it sometimes changes your behavior, but it ALWAYS ups your anxiety about the impossibility of ever changing your behavior sufficiently.
- April 24, 2020 Just figured out a regex solution to something in under ten minutes. Watch out Friday, nothing can stop me now.
- April 14, 2020 This afternoon, a career in academia looks like working from the kitchen table, playing a French 80s radio station, and fuming at Reviewer B’s complaints about my using the journal’s template like I was asked to.
- April 8, 2020 I just finished rereading Philip Roth’s 2004 novel “The Plot Against America.” It is really good—in ways I didn’t appreciate when I first read it in high school and that I couldn’t begin to articulate now.
- April 8, 2020 One of the greatest joys I experience as a veteran of a decade of French classes is whenever I discover that a song we used to listen to in high school is an actual song, not just something made up for class.
- March 23, 2020 Hearing a lot of things today that are reminding me why I find utilitarianism totally unsatisfying as a moral philosophy.
- March 22, 2020 Not sure what I expected less today: To explain the concept of death to a toddler or for the toddler to grasp the concept well enough to burst into tears.
- March 17, 2020 Listening to public Swiss radio (as I do) and got chills when I heard a new, prerecorded gov’t COVID-19 safety message played before the hourly news update. Felt like I was in disaster fiction.
- March 15, 2020 Perk of having ed tech degree/experience in the era of COVID-19: I’m currently walking my mom through Zoom to allow for possibility of her offering distance piano lessons.
- March 14, 2020 Was there a moral panic about radio? My kid is enjoying podcasts, and while parent-me feels like that’s somehow better than TV, tech researcher me is wondering about history.
- February 27, 2020 TIL that if you don’t keep an e-bike adequately charged, all of that fancy-but-heavy pedal assist equipment is as much of a liability for your commute as it usually is an asset.
- February 21, 2020 Trying to collect tweets from a very-new account, but advanced search with “from:” doesn’t seem to work. Has anyone ever had this happen before?