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).
- February 19, 2019 Funniest thing I’ve read all day is a tweet in the data I’m working with that proposes a Warcraft version of the French baccalauréat exam.
- February 18, 2019 Approximately 6 months after receiving my work laptop, I have finally collected all of the peripherals I need to use my work laptop at work. Until now, I’ve been using personal computer at work and work computer at home.
- February 16, 2019 I love that I do the kind of research where I have to define terms like “hashtag” and “meme,” but I hate trying to figure out how much of a 1,000-word conference proposal to dedicate to those definitions.
- February 16, 2019 Sure I scheduled a research Skype meeting for Saturday morning, but I attended in my pajamas, so that still counts as work/life balance, right? 😂😭
- February 15, 2019 I’m convinced that the hardest part of any research collaboration is figuring out what software everyone uses.
- February 15, 2019 What is permitted vs. what is right: Games and ethical decision-making
- February 14, 2019 Question I just asked some colleagues re: teaching a subject I know something about but have never been formally trained in: “How do you turn 100s of Stack Exchange searches into a syllabus?”
- February 13, 2019 I think the hardest part of teaching is figuring out how to explain something you don’t remember not knowing how to do to someone who currently doesn’t know how to do it.
- February 12, 2019 It’s amazing how much French I’m learning translating students’ tweets to English for a research project. Language is so rich, and limiting it to 280 characters arguably makes it more so.
- February 12, 2019 Last week, I noticed that my RSS reader was no longer refreshing feeds from my local newspaper’s website. Today, I discovered it’s associated with VPN use. Anyone know what’s going on?
- February 12, 2019 Finally decided to cut ties with Prime, and then Amazon goes and buys Eero, my router company of choice. It’s like I can’t escape (which is, in turn, exactly why I’m trying to).
- February 11, 2019 Tried to grab my box of Altoids with my eyes still on the article I’m reading, and grabbed a box of thumbtacks instead. Spotted my mistake before popping one in my mouth, though. 😅
- February 11, 2019 'We're in the 20th century, you know': My problem with '21st-century learning.'
- February 11, 2019 Sure, I’m eating cold leftovers (break room microwaves aren’t working), but today’s not a total wash: I got “Religion and Cyberspace” from the library and booked VIA Rail tickets from Quebec City to Montréal for an upcoming vacation.
- February 10, 2019 The cutest part of my daughter’s being old enough to make Valentines this year is her insistence on mailing one to herself.
- February 9, 2019 Prisencolinensinainciusol is my favorite song-whose-name-I-can-never-remember. It’s an amazing rendition of what American music sounds like to someone who doesn’t speak English, and it’s worth a listen.
- February 8, 2019 A lot of people are ragging on YouTube these days, so I’d just like to mention one thing it does really well: Consistently pick the least-flattering frames of my class videos for the thumbnail options.
- February 8, 2019 If you’re going to get an article you’re proud of rejected on a Friday, it *is* comforting for the rejection to be essentially “it’s a good paper but doesn’t fit our special issue focus as much as you think it does.”
- February 7, 2019 Nothing reinforces my professorial credibility quite like the wet bike gear from my rainy commute draped over the chairs in my office.
- February 6, 2019 Quand une fusée temporelle commence son voyage dans le temps, on appelle ça un « décollage horaire »