Engineering an Interesting Life
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Week in Brief
For this week: Write up Science teacher talk idea. – unsure what to talk about, met with prof to clarify. Now have plan, just need to write up. Create bio and register for Science teacher talk. – delayed by above Go skiing, sort out forms for ski instructor job (if not too late) – I…
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Programmers Will Change The World
On Tuesday, I went to an event at The Code Factory. Michelle Gauthier spoke for CapCHI on “User-Centered Design: A Cultural Challenge” (full details). I found it fascinating. I’ve been thinking about programming as a force for good a lot lately so it was great to hear an example about that. The talk was about…
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Smart Calendars
Below is a picture of my schedule for this week: Bear in mind, that the scheduled times are typically those when I am not working – yes I am a little stressed, and incredibly unsympathetic to people who tell me they don’t have time to do things because they are “too busy”. I’ve had to…
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Graduate School
I went back to school because I didn’t think I knew enough to go and join the real world, yet. Then I got to graduate school, and realized it wasn’t the place to learn it. I’m not a better programmer than I was before I came. I know a little more about some things, but…
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Slides for my Talk – 15 Tools to Make University Easier
15 Tools to Make University Easier View more presentations from Cate Huston. See the original blogpost.
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What’s Your Natural Advantage?
The first year I worked at a summer camp, it was nuts. Three instructors (including me) took a trip to the hospital, a child ran backwards into a pole, a bridge collapsed, an instructor got fired, as did the woman running the cafeteria that was the cause of one of the trips to hospital, and…
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Release Time!
Really excited to release the applets of my Twitter Conversation Networks, and also the Clique visualizations. Details here. I’m providing the option to get priority by making a loan on uOttawa WISE’s Kiva lending team. Although much of it is automated, each one takes me a little time to make, plus there is the time…
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Do We Need To Be Jerks?
From “A Rant About Women” by the awesome Clay Shirky (emphasis mine). And it looks to me like women in general, and the women whose educations I am responsible for in particular, are often lousy at those kinds of behaviors, even when the situation calls for it. They aren’t just bad at behaving like arrogant…
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Expat Adventures: Getting a Car
Last Friday I bought a car – it’s winter and therefore the ski season, and I get a little crazy living in the cold if I don’t ski. Skiing is the point of living somewhere cold, I think. On Monday I went to get my license exchanged. It was painless. I handed in my British…