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Kiddo did lots of fuse bead art with cousins over Thanksgiving. When I complained that the train in the instruction manual was out of the 19th century and that kids’ stuff never acknowledges awesome modern trains, she improvised this high speed beauty for me.

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This semester, I have learned that: 1) if I have building toys on my desk, I will turn them into a robot, and 2) if I have a robot on my desk, I will fiddle with it during Zoom meetings.

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This is a friendly reminder that DRM sucks and that corporations have perverted the digital technologies that should make things easier for libraries and their patrons into ways to squeeze more money out of us while giving us less control.

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Today’s bike commute getup. One more distant colleague didn’t know who I was until I spoke to her. Other folks who see me more often could recognize me by my helmet alone. 🚲

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Reorganizing folders in my RSS/Mastodon/Bluesky client is making me curious about how emoji get alphabetized.

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J’ai une petite collection d’aimaintins au travail qui me donne de la joie, même si la plupart serait incompréhensible à mes collègues.

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Whenever I put this shirt on for a November jog, I wonder what the Venn diagram is between those who believe gender is biological and immutable and those who believe we have to show one turkey jogger with lipstick, eyelashes, and a pearl necklace so that we know she’s a woman.

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Nancy is giving me the courage to finally confess that I do not really like the sweet-potatoes-slathered-in-marshmallows dish.

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I love having a co-author who can provide the theoretical framing to turn my weird data from a dark corner of the internet into an interesting argument.

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Have people ever used Snopes as a verb, à la Google? Or is this just the best throwaway detail in a science fiction short story ever?

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Love these digs at Twitter in the Kickstarter video for Mike Masnick’s new card game.

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Currently feeling some Chidi Anagonye levels of nihilism about grading.

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Love me a creative rickroll, so I’m glad my brother sent me this right after I got my image posting workflow working.

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It’s been messy, but pretty sure I’ve finally figured out how to post images to my website (and from there to social media) from my phone.

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