Posts
This page is the home to both long(er)-form blog posts (which are collected separately here) and to microposts (~280 characters) that get forwarded to my Twitter and Micro.blog accounts (and can also be read here).
- July 19, 2019 Toggl has an amazing API and disappointing native apps. If it weren’t for the first, the second could be a dealbreaker.
- July 19, 2019 Unexpected topics in research meetings: The difficulty of choosing English translations for French swearing in your data.
- July 15, 2019 I have now successfully migrated all of my “following” to Feedbin’s Twitter-to-RSS service. Weird way to keep up with tweets (and costs me a monthly fee), but I’m really enjoying it so far.
- July 15, 2019 Totally blanked on bringing work clothes into the office today, so I’ll be working in the t-shirt and shorts I wore biking in. The t-shirt has an anti-imposter syndrome message, though, so that’s helping.
- July 12, 2019 Teaching a summer class that includes fundamentals of computer hardware. Peak so far was this morning, when a student came in excited that she’d been able to follow along watching someone replace a server motherboard.
- July 10, 2019 Question for more experienced parents: is it normal for toddlers to believe they can make obvious falsehoods true simply by asserting them (and whining if I don’t play along), or is that a consequence of growing up in the context of this presidency?
- June 28, 2019 I am more invested in the FRA - USA match going on right now than I have been in any other sporting event this year. (Then again, that investment manifests only in occasionally checking the score, so you can see I’m not a sports guy).
- June 28, 2019 Trying to do revisions on an article that isn’t my best work and that I don’t really love is haaaaaaard. I’m committed enough to the core idea to see things through, but I’m also tempted to tell the reviewers that they win and I’m out.
- June 26, 2019 I am incapable of listening to Devo without remembering that they get a shout out in Watchmen.
- June 22, 2019 Sapiens is a challenging book, but that’s also why it’s a must-read. As much as its focus is on science & technology, I ultimately read it as a reminder that we need to ask ?s from the humanities to safely navigate our present and future.
- June 22, 2019 They need “pairs well with” recommendations for toddler clothes so that you know what food stains will go with the intended color scheme.
- June 21, 2019 My first rule as a low-budget Twitter researcher is to collect interesting data first, ask (research) questions later. I have a lot of data I’ve never used, but I’d rather deal with that than a missed opportunity.
- June 20, 2019 In jury-rigged standing desk news, I have replaced the MacBook box my monitor was teetering on with a Yeti microphone box, and I think I’ve got the monitor at the right height now.
- June 20, 2019 Bike commuting adventure of the day: Finding all the places in my office where I can discretely hang up wet clothes from a rainy commute (thank goodness for my closet full of dry work clothes).
- June 16, 2019 I tried to explain to my toddler the premise of “Guantánamo Kid” (a comic about the innocent 14-year old Mohamed Al-Gharani’s incarceration in Gitmo). Her response: “A little boy shouldn’t be in jail!”
- June 14, 2019 Just finished the 2006 “Life on Mars.” Fantastic premise, and some amazing individual scenes, but not quite enough connective tissue between the two.
- June 14, 2019 Does anyone know of research on social media surveillance by school districts? Some local news stories have me thinking of a potential future project...
- June 14, 2019 Just had a paper rejected from a special issue, but the journal has been such a pain to work with over the last 8(!) months that I’m frankly just glad it’s over.
- June 10, 2019 When Twitter first gut-punched third-party apps by limiting their API, I was afraid not being able to check “likes” through Tweetbot would make it unusable. Now, that’s actually the appeal.
- June 8, 2019 Central Kentucky libraries apparently have summer reading programs for *adults*, and I can’t remember the last time I was this excited.