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- 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 17, 2019 New Presentation: Every Nation, Kindred, Tongue, and Tweeple
- 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.
- April 5, 2019 I don’t really understand how fraternities and sororities work, so whenever I hear about Greek life, I half-expect someone to follow up with a discussion of “Roman life”, where all the names are different even though everything else is the same.
- April 4, 2019 New Presentation: Implications of Spam for Educational Twitter Researchers
- April 3, 2019 Ethical Alternatives to Mainstream Tech Platforms
- April 2, 2019 Today I get to teach about copyright and fair use in class, which is basically an excuse to watch YouTube videos and discuss whether they meet fair use or not.
- April 1, 2019 THERE’S NO ONE CURRENTLY NEXT TO ME FOR WHAT WILL BE A NINE HOUR FLIGHT BUT I’M NOT SURE IF BOARDING HAS CLOSED YET AND THIS IS THE MOST STRESSFUL PART OF THE WHOLE TRIP SO FAR
- April 1, 2019 Highlight of Paris airport this morning is the Scottish “hey Europe, can *we* still be friends?” ads that I keep seeing.
- March 31, 2019 What I’d really like to see added to HTML are <scarequote></scarequote> tags.
- March 28, 2019 J’ai déjà atterri à Roissy, j’ai déjà fait le contrôle des passeports et la douane, mais je viens d’entendre le « jingle » de la SNCF, et c’est donc maintenant que je sais vraiment que je suis en France 😍🚉
- March 26, 2019 Just when I thought I had screenshot shortcuts down for macOS, Cmd+Shift+5 reveals itself and blows my mind!
- March 26, 2019 One of the best gifts I’ve ever received was when my mom sent me a copy of The Moody Blues’ “Days of Future Passed” for my birthday when I was a freshman at BYU, assuming that because it was quirky, I would like it. She was 100% right.
- March 25, 2019 Getting in touch with my BYU roots in educational technology by applying for a grant to move to alternative textbooks for my Fall 2019 course.