.. Realising that statistics wasn’t for her, Megler answered a newspaper advert for a part-time programming job at a local software company called Melbourne House. It was 1980, and she was halfway through a course that focused on designing operating systems and developing programming languages. “The day I was hired, the first thing my boss…
Similar:An unreal Mars skylineThat awesome image showing Earth, Venus …AestheticsWe are cruel. We always have been. The Internet did not make us soWe didn’t start the flame war. Scandalou…CultureThe Best Halloween Costume Is a Robot Halloween Costume – Atlantic MobileAwesome robot costume is awesome. The…AestheticsThis Is What Summer Vacation Is For: Designing a Steampunk Airsloop…
Rewatching ST:DS9 A character-driven farce, in which most of the major cast and several recurring characters get massive crushes and/or are comically crushed upon. Jake is sullen because his now-former girlfriend Mardah has left for school, but reluctantly agrees to attend the Bajoran Gratitude Festival with his Space Dad. O’Brien is jittery because Keiko and…
Rewatching ST:DS9 After an overworked Kira snaps at Bashir, the good doctor’s prescription is an evening at Quark’s, which includes a chance meeting with Commander Riker, on leave from the Enterprise-D. The next morning when Dax pries her for details, Kira insists they just talked. That evening, Riker bumps into her on the promenade and…
Similar:Hide and Q (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 9) Riker, buffed up by Q, grants desires of the…Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generatio…AmusingAn important day to remember.Never again.PersonalThe Scarlet Letter (Prime Stage)PersonalModular support craft from the #neovictorian #steampunk bedtime stories I used to tell my …Modular support craft from the #neovicto…AestheticsMy wife reports: “There was…
Rewatching ST:DS9 Kira tells Odo about the pleasure of drinking too-hot coffee and, in order to escape the attentions of the smarmy merchant Tiron, role-plays that she and Odo are lovers. (She doesn’t notice how Odo reacts when she takes his hand.) On the Defiant, a “commander’s log” lampshades the fact that this episode features…
Similar:Adobe Shockwave interfereres with my system, blocks my attempts to remove it, and replaces…Does Adobe Shockwave fit your definition…BusinessDo you get your news mostly from social media? I check NPR, Drudge, and news.google.com.Do you have a regular news-consumption r…CultureUpdated a post about Sarah Rush — the "launch when ready" crew member from 1979 Battlesta…I recently…
It’s been decades since I’ve had the “I’m in school again and I forgot to study for the test” nightmare, but it hasn’t been so long since I’ve had nightmares about the faculty job search. I did have one nightmare campus visit, where I was told I was one of six candidates brought to campus…
Similar:The poetry of deafnessMy auditory processing disorder makes it…AestheticsPreparing for some serious nerd time with the family this summerSet phasers to “nerd”! This summer I’ll…CultureBusy with Midterm GradesPosted midterm grades for the most labor…Academia6 Problems with our School SystemI spend a lot of time re-educating my st…AcademiaThey both reached for the gun.PersonalNo, these "Perspective matters"…
When I used to teach a “Media and Culture” class, I had students do an oral project, a handwriting project, a typewriter/cut-and-paste project, and a digital project, and we spent quite a bit of time reading and talking about how the ways we read and write affect not only what we read and write about,…
Similar:The chief engineer does not know where the floating lamps are coming from, but he looks gr…AestheticsLounge area of a steampunk villain’s lair. Still needs a light fixture or two. #blender3dAestheticsHabits for happiness: tips for looking on the bright side of lifeHabits for happiness: tips for looking o…PersonalThe Bonding ( ST:TNG Rewatch, Season Three Episode…
The three of us approach them in our very obvious costumes and ask if I can hop on their float. Not only do they agree, but they tell us they were looking for a Ferris! Everything is going our way — just like in the movie. I jump aboard, and they cue up the Beatles’…
Similar:How to Annoy Your Parents (Smurfs, Tweety, Jar-Jar and Ewoks) http://www.youtube.com/wat…AmusingHappy ice cream turkey cake day. AestheticsThe Geekling Worked a Shatner/Nimoy Tribute into GodspellMy geekling daughter, who in Willy Wonka…AmusingGetting in the Christmas spirit.PersonalLooking forward to Part 2 of #PPTPlaytime’s production “The Rivals” (live… now!)CultureAnother 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart…
Similar:Happy Sweet Sixteen, Carolyn!The girl spent her birthday weekend open…PersonalThe End of Print JournalismThe future of print remains what? Try to…BusinessWonderful Retro Control Panel in Seton Hill University Dining RoomI gather the purpose of these consoles -…AcademiaWhite House photo access controls public imageRather than permit photojournalists to s…CultureCrabby 9yo Constructs a Head-mounted Frump-amplification Isolation CubeMy…
Thinking a lot lately about masking and empathy, and my role as educator. Finding the right balance between making people uncomfortable by avoiding eye contact and making people uncomfortable by staring is one of the many unwritten rules I’ve seen autistic people struggle to master. I still mention “eye contact” in my rubric for student…
I didn’t realize how involved the children of divorced dads Packard and Montgomery were in the creation of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” gamebooks. (The children of divorced dad Will Crowther were one motivation for, and were early playtesters for, Crowther’s original Colossal Cave Adventure; the history of parser text adventure games and branching path…
Similar:"No, no, the drink, the drink,–O my dear Hamlet,– The drink, the drink! I am poison…PersonalEveryone Nov 1AmusingOne of the benefits of teaching at a small college, with small classes…In a final reflection video for a freshm…AcademiaToasting Shakespeare at the Bard's Birthday BashOrganized by Pittsburgh Shakespeare in t…CultureProfessor Sees Parallels Between Things, Other Things”By drawing…
Rewatching ST:DS9 Although some time ago Jake told his father he didn’t want to join Starfleet, the plot of this episode requires O’Brien to still be mentoring Jake as they putter about an unused ore processing room, so that when O’Brien enters the wrong passcode they can get locked in together with Sisko. A recorded…
Similar:Ready to teach another set of students what research is (and what it isn’t).AcademiaForce of Nature (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 9) A Space Thing leads to an en… Rewatching ST:TNG In which a comic te…EthicsMy basement dehumidifier was flashing an error code. YouTube had a tutorial with a possibl…My basement dehumidifier was flashing…
Rewatching ST:DS9 Quark scowls as a lucky customer cleans up at a dabo table. Jake blows a kiss at the attendant, who must be Mardah, his girlfriend (of whom we have heard but never seen). Mardah encourages the customer to play one more round, which he loses. He aims to console himself with Marda’s attention,…