Posts
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Another future project braindump
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More FOSS course feedback and tools
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More want-to-read notes: parental choice, deafening qualitative research, software as material, data feminism, cripping the university
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For later thinking: a braindump
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Integrity, not reliability
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Today's observations on my ADHD
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Image Description: Race Matters - a story about white privilege
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On rescinding guidance documents
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On ADHD adaptations
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Blog reboot, Jekyll edition
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Open Science Songs: Sign This Publishing Plan
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Open Science Songs: Do you hear the people sing
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A puppet show on objectivity and quantification
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Students Assign Me Homework, Fall 2018 edition
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Starting point: constructs of culture and curriculum (with Tess Edmonds)
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The time when I met Rebecca and Stephanie together (a Deaf academics story)
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Compagnie Kafig (old notes writeup)
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Post-conference happiness from FIE
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Wingsuits and giant eagles
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How do I make my conference more accessible/inclusive?
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Feedback on the FOSS projects course (RIT) from spring 2018
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"What is Engineering" in the inaugural issue of Murmurations
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ASLCore: affordance theory, or "thing-inform"
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ASLCore: stress/strain curve zoom levels
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Why I can’t (yet) teach engineering in ASL
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Parents have visited, semester winding down
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Presenting at RIT's Interdisciplinary STEM Ed Research Forum
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ASL lector notes for the Easter Vigil Mass - 1st reading (Genesis 1-2, Creation)
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Mass Lector prep notes, part 2
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Mass Lector prep notes, part 1
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The doors we leave open
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Music and movement as a reboot/shuffle button for my atypical attention inertia (ADHD)
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Why Deafening Engineering? Because onto(ethico)epistemologies.
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APA style and qualitative research methods resources in ASL
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Thinkaloud: missing home and missing people, but where are the spaces in which I can actually live?
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I love the rhetoric in this guide to online conference accessibility.
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RIT FOSS projects: midterm praxis reflection assignment (feedback welcome!)
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Liveblogging RIT's FOSS projects class: initial questions for community spelunking
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What goes through my mind on the first day of teaching as a faculty member
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Seeing myself in the (literal) mirror at NTID's IT office
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Talk notes: "Technologies that wake you up" from a DHH perspective
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The CAT Lab Abstract Sorting Hat, Version 0.1
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Lab research setup email: creating Zotero accounts
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Things that have made me happy lately: qual methods companion resource in ASL, my upcoming review of wake-up systems
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Thanksgiving recipe rap: Alexander Hamilton
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Reading effectively: how my practice evolved from engineer to scholar
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Playing with O*NET visualizations for degree program proposals
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Gallaudet Peer Mentoring Certificate Program: first impressions
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Book braindumps: E. D. Hirsch, Jr. - Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs To Know
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Dissertation defense slides and transcript now available (help me find a better way to publish it?)
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First notes from learning audio engineering
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Curricular principle: being as well as knowing
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Silliness: how one might possibly set fire to the rain (as per song lyrics)
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Thoughts on Matthew Guterl's piece on "surviving graduate school"
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On writing: a glove that fits
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Comic: Products and Practitioners: how a visibility of developmental processes aids in practitioner formation
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Comic: 7 Techniques Adapted From Cognitive Apprenticeship Theory
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Oral deaf audio MacGyver: identifying speakers
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Starter back and shoulder workouts
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Some thoughts that I don't want to have, regarding people getting shot
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Postmodernism for engineers: the (draft) collection
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Postmodernism: paradigmatic comparison
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Postmodernism: what engineering education might learn from the "postmodern turn" in educational studies
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Postmodernism: a troubling of the historical narrative I just provided for postmodernism
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Postmodernism: a (reluctant) historical progression
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Postmodernism: in engineering (education) praxis
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Postmodernism: what is it? (for engineers)
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Postmodernism: slicing and separations (agential and other cuts)
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Postmodernism: many truths and meanings (intersubjective, intertext, signs, signifiers, slippage)
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Postmodernism: power and agency (readerly/writerly)
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The Feast of the Assumption always makes me smile.
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Brief notes from England: Sally and Steph
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Grandparent communications
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Writing spaces
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Reading the labels of canned beans
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Startup/shutdown and research circuit routines
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Qualitative research: the discussion section, or: "kryptonite - so what?"
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Things I want to remember while writing
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QualMIP week 11: semester feedback
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Musings on movement and somatics in qualitative methodology
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Want more inclusivity at your conference? Add childcare.
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High-level reading notes: "Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe"
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Another research progress-organization braindump
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Facebook page public personas cannot join groups (experiment results)
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Notes from talking with Ruth
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QualMIP week 10: topic tracking and project progress
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QualMIP week 9: alignment of project components
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Current thesis articulation problems, aka "postmodernism is hard"
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The ADHD Academic: a ritual of typed thinkalouds
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Notes from a DeafSpace talk by Hansel Bauman, plus going voice-off
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One current answer to "So how's the writing going?"
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QualMIP Week 8: narrowing research question and unit of analysis
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The infrastructure that supports a dissertation is ridiculous.
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QualMIP week 7: close reading of data
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QualMIP: interim game plan clarification
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Braindump edition: playing with language to describe my research
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QualMIP week 6: first project-focused "research meeting" and getting "better" at "this," for some value of "better" and "this"
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Learning activities for when your students are exploring areas you don't know (inspired by open source)
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QualMIP week 5: fumbling into project mode
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Advice to a high schooler about pursuing teaching and learning
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What does the word "maker" mean?
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QualMIP week 4: artifact analysis scavenger hunt
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Update, dissertation, braindump style.
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My philosophy on how to change the world
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QualMIP and Insper: finding our habitual scripts
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QualMIP Week 3: protocol testing and "qual is everywhere"
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QualMIP week 2: Interview nonverbals
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Thoughts on my family's language
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Curriculum is for, by, and of both faculty and students
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A few shiny things on engineering identity
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QualMIP week 1: sensitizing to nonverbals
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QualMIP starting agreements: fieldwork focus, grace weeks, sustainability, and more.
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How Future Faculty Mel wants to be evaluated
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If I post this thought I've been avoiding, can I start focusing again?
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Communion
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Thoughts on "Transformative Conversations" (a book on faculty mentoring communities)
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Dissertation memo: Julia and the faculty literature review
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Brain-fragment: what can we infer about our pedagogical beliefs by looking at the software we design?
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Speak out against MBTA paratransit cuts
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The sections of a research study
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What isn't (and is) the Collaboratory?
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Writing this in between dissertation sprints
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On the relative openness of text/document formats: .txt and .csv
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Sticky Engagements, or: how to get students to plaster walls with self-determination theory stickies
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My college ring as an adaptation for both deafness and ADHD
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Short comics about hearing aid tech
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Loud music in the car
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After The Rain, part II
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My bio blurb for tomorrow's ASEE diversity panel is a shameless call for help on my dissertation.
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Recipe cartoons from "Cooking Mondays with Mel" and our ESTEEM service dinner
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From Debbie Chachra: what I want to tell my future research students when they start
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How and why to caption your engineering tutorial videos
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Protocol draft: codesigning classes with my (future) students
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Ite, inflammate omnia: on Pentecost, impossible lipreading, and the wine at Cana
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If I were to teach 1cr/cocurriculars at Olin, what would they be?
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Being deaf is: unlearning "paper face" (proceed until NAK vs. wait for ACK)
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Members of the Olin community respond to NYT "How To Attract Female Engineers" article
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On the diversity-readiness of STEM environments: "It's almost as if I could only enter the makerspace as a janitor."
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Megan, or: holding pool towels at the First Luminous Mystery, and satellites, and light
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Being deaf is: choosing between having emotions and communicating them (also: "met deaf wow" moment)
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Being deaf is: unknowingly mispronouncing lots of common words
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Welcome to Italy. I'm an illegal immigrant from Holland.
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Thoughts on being a deaf extrovert
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On contract/specs-based grading and intrinsic motivation
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Sarcastic Mel Sighting: backstory of "Communicating Is So Inefficient" (PRISM column)
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Learned today: babies are 3kHz vuvuzelas to match the Fletcher-Munson curve of hearing people
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Pushing back on the STEAM acronym
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How to succeed in engineering as a disabled person (poem)
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Realtime transcript of "Using Realtime Transcription" FIE 2014 talk
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Summarizing all of JEE's guest editorials from Jan 2005 to Apr 2008
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Processing with Esteban and Davin: first sketch prototype, quadrant brightness
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How I use Zotero to take research reading notes
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Being deaf is: not having add/drop week
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Holding the Cup
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I need a better word for "this kind" of writing that tries to hurl its words across a gap.
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Small comic strips from my first time in a deaf-accessible hotel room
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Near-peer advice from 1st-time engineering education researchers
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Last summer's Zambia reflections
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How to play Speakeasy Secret Santa
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Being deaf is: polled I/O instead of interrupt-driven
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Being deaf is: constant baseline soundmaking anxiety.
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(New comic): Mastery (Dreyfus model of skill acquisition) on one page
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Can you take over my sponsorship of a special-needs child in Zambia?
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How To Use Your Design Studio Instructor: a short comic book
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(New comic): Baxter-Magolda's Self-Authorship Theory On One Page
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Dear world: if I work on accessibility for 5 years, can I have it for 50?
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ok, I'll try learning how to run; this should be funny
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not burning out during Bad Accessibility Week, and career advice from deaf academics
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Being deaf is: holding a hidden, uncollapsed wave function on your side of a conversation at all times.
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Research Is Fun: Using children's art supplies for my first-pass data analysis
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Unlock challenge: raise $1024 for The Ada Initiative, support women in open tech/culture, and unlock more open-licensed "programming learning styles" material!
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"Performing" programming, and other apprenticeship-related themes in early Hacker School Book data
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Guest post by Gabrielle Ewall: proposal to use Bayesian statistics for understanding Hacker School learning styles
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Being deaf is: straining to lipread restaurant order numbers
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Marriage essay 1: what's marriage in today's culture, and what do you think a good marriage is?
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Some things I want my kids to learn
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Academics with academic mothers: a total side note on cultural capital
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Journalistic vs scholarly writing: notes from a meeting with Alice Pawley
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Thus saith the JON: using open-source Bible software to navigate my dissertation data
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Alex and Lisa and dry feet
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Mel's learning styles profile (spoiler: it's not a surprise)
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Visualization examples, external cognition, and starting to play with text data
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Welcome to my dissertation: a poststructural perspective on engineering and technology faculty as learners
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Want to give Mel homework? Help me think of a visualization term project.
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The hidden cost of deafness: organizing access behind the scenes, aka "why Mel hates logistics"
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Using mid-semester feedback discussions as a catalyst for self-directed learning
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Learning styles for programmers: active/reflective
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My favorite passages from the ASL Bible: Little Kid Wanders Through Big Temple, Awkward Erotic Poetry, and CYMBALS
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Unpacking a conference accessibility request email (deafness)
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Hacker School book update: rescheduling storytelling interviews
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Psimulink Psalm and Rhomeo & Julihat
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Email example: articulating (deaf) access needs for academic conferences
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Postmodernism in a 3-panel comic
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What does "becoming a better programmer" mean? - Assessments Brainstorm Edition
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You know, I used to.
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Oh boy, worksprint exploding! With tea.
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Wrestling with angels: poststructuralism and Catholicism
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Braindump ramble starting from "contemplative scholarship"
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Prelim sausage-making: narratives as methodology, part one
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Prelim sausage-making: the cognitive apprenticeship section
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Prelim sausage-making: Seb points out poststructuralism is all over my study design
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Prelim sausage-making: Ileana gives me synonyms for "interview"
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Stephen's question: how do you tutor fellow researchers in programming?
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Test Driven Learning: setting learning goals for yourself, Software Engineering edition
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Finally lost inside a concert: remembering "Blessed Unrest"
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The Joyful Mysteries ought to be called the Terrifying Mysteries
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Self-portrait in acrylic: behind the scenes
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Sanctuary
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Some writing practice using moments with my family
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Small Mel Self and the discovery of cold cream ("It's moisturizing!")
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It's a good life for a Mel.
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Psychology research on agency and willpower and Deus Caritas Est (are somehow connected in my brain)
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Rewiring the "Run Awayyyy!" habit
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Creaking forward into Prelim v.1 - thoughts on an imperfect process of scholarly writing
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Chua's 3 criteria for Radically Transparent Research (things sound silly when I put my last name on them)
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Trust in the slow work
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Nelson Diversity Surveys: statistics on USA faculty diversity (spoiler: depressing)
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What does a PhD preliminary proposal look like before it's done? Here you go.
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Talking About Leaving: a book that blew me up in undergrad
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Then, less-funny stuff: readings on sexual orientation in engineering education
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First, funny stuff: Genderbread Person and APA sexuality definitions
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on vulnerability, inasmuch as I can express it with words (or: "I wish I could dance this post as I speak it")
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The chapel and the PhD committee chair: a short story of 2 awesome advising meetings
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Call for ideas: help design a "Gender/Race/Class" class on "interrupting the discourse that perpetuates inequity"
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Reading notes: "Masculinities" by Raewyn Connell
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I like existing.
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Freewriting on what-shall-I-do-this-summer
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A book review in comic form: The alphabet vs the goddess
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Reflections on the role I take at Hacker School
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For Julia: on my relationship with writing
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This American Life's episode on Testosterone: quotes that struck me
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Notes on "Short Introductions: Gender" by Raewyn Connell - red and blue and paint mixing
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Scattered notes on race in engineering education: stereotype threat, Asians as model minority, racism-without-racists, OLPC
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EduPsych for Hacker Schoolers v.1.1 (presentation slides)
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a quiet celebration (aka "not a brain-in-jar")
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Reading notes: Whiteness of a different color: European immigrants and the alchemy of race.
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White privilege in engineering education
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Class, Race, & Gender in Engineering Edu: Race Reflections Week! ("Geez, why am I reflecting on my potential future kids so much?")
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Reflections on freedom
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Class theory in engineering education (notes 2 of 2, "AAH we're perpetuating it!" and "whoa intersections with deafness!" edition)
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Class theory in engineering education: it's actually a thing! (notes 1 of 2)
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Sketchnotes: "How To Be A High School Superstar" by Cal Newport
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Living in the whisper
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If a broke grad student can do it, you can too: donate to @adainitiative and patch the open world to be better for EVERYONE.
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Reading notes: Culture & Power, Engineers & the "Working Middle Class"
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Engineering Education Discourses on Representation: Why Problematization Matters (Beddoes, 2011)
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#pyconca Sketchnotes: Linn Vizard on industrial design for programmers and Greg Ward on Go for Python hackers
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EduPsych for Python Hackers 2.0: revised, expanded, updated
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PyCon Toronto Saturday Sketchnotes: Max Thayer on NLTK and Lynn Root on PRISM
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I watch foreign films on flights because they come pre-subtitled.
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Hacker school: introducing yourself to unfamiliar open source projects
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Hacker School Session: engineering learning styles
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First day of Hacker School residency: thoughts from a corner
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Back in East Hall at Olin for a little while
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A mid-trip update from Zambia, wherein my classmates and professors blog for me
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Headed to Zambia to meet myself, offline for a while.
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Black print on thick white paper, serif font.
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Spending my 27th birthday at home
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Cleaning out notes from Cultural Theories class
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In which Mel works on lowering (some of) her defenses around "proving" her "worth"
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Some early drafts of dances in my brain
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Things that remind me of the world I want to live in: airports and nerds and IVoW
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trying to be brave enough again, again, again.
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Dealing with a (mildly feverish) distractomel
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Reactions to a(n incredible) Colbert Report fanfic with alternate-universe deaf Jon Stewart
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Do fewer things with greater love.
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HOWTO think poststructurally
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Full talk transcript: "Psst: wanna eavesdrop on my research?"
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Psst: wanna eavesdrop on my research? My engineering education seminar presentation.
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Notes from "Getting Smart": All accounts are fragmentary/incomplete! I'm missing things! So what? I'm happy.
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I need to reach across worlds to be all me, be all there.
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A post-Easter explosion about silence, now that Lent and giving up -v is over
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Thoughts on ABET accreditation criteria for Dr. Kelly
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May we suggest: Columbus, Ohio
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HFOSS Tech Talk at Georgia Gwinnett College, and an unexpected place-of-speaking-from
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Video (subtitled!) and transcript for 2013 PyCon talk, "EduPsych Theory for Python Hackers"
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The quick and dirty FAQs for starting a research blog: hesitation-fightin' version
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EduPsych theory for Python Hackers: slides and an extended Q&A with further-readings
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Allen Downey's "Bayesian Statistics Made Simple" workshop: a recap and review
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PyCon signal processing workshop materials
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Making the midwives of makers: a (3-page) poststructural view on engineering faculty development
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A path is built of steps.
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Xworks concert Fri/Sat: neon yellow duct tape, fishnet stockings (grr) and dancing in a library (yay)
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Silence is not death, finding and leaving Mason jars of water, and the oddness of not wanting to travel the world
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My past selves write me: little tired SuperMel, running-from-partitions Mel, subway-surfing nomad Mel. Hello there.
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Be a whirlwind with awareness and the ability to stop, to make a breathing room and space for... Wait. Wait, that scares me.
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How to conduct a basic hearing screening with a $1k machine that could be a $20 open-hardware Altoids-tin design
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Giving up my --verbose flag for Lent
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Friday morning notes: social constructs should be constructable by all.
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Ash Wednesday and a roughness inside me typed in words; what I believe, how I pray, why the divine is part of my package.
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For Audrey: these three things remain - faith, hope, and love. And they're all ridiculously hard.
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Addressing liability issues when using live text transcription (CART) for qualitative research data collection
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Help me spend $ on microphones, or: how does a deaf ethnographer record 8 people in a noisy room?
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Distractomel: perfectionism is the opposite of good time management
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Favorite bits of "Women's Ways of Knowing": midwife-teacher, constructivism summaries, being "in" at the start
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Aliveness snapshots: 80's songs at 5:30am and double-socks and dorm memories and gorgeous cinematography and English muffins with my kindergarten teacher
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For Audrey: "Yeah, if I had to stand attentively to Scripture being read for 6 hours, I'd weep... because my Ritalin would run out."
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A last food hurrah before 5 weeks of training, Mary Anne's letters to her children, and Shut Up And Write success
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My dissertation proposal as a 2-act play
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Coaching notes from Sally: outlining is writing, the priority principle, Turning Things In Already (they don't need to be perfect)
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I was going to write about other things, but here's the world as it has captured me lately...
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Using live text transcription for qualitative research interviews: methods notes after a first experiment
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When I look into the mirror, I see a dancer. Dreaming about my dissertation, in the studio with Kyler: when you are anxious, stop. What will last? What will you learn?
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Up-Goer Five, Ethnography, and Obscure STEM Jargon versions of my dissertation proposal abstract
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Assorted quotes from cultural theories class, wherein Mel gives up on reading the firehose and finds out why all universities are German and complains about BS
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Hey, Oliners -- a nifty white paper on how other schools are developing "engineering leadership" talks about us.
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Coaching notes from Sally: how to evaluate opportunities and deal with uncertainty through means other than overscheduling oneself
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Making poststructural works navigable: notes on Cavallaro's signposting tricks
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Signal processing teaching adventures and remembering my first "holy shit" teaching moment
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Mass readings on Jesus's baptism for Audrey, thoughts on prayer ("hey God, OM NOM NOM!" is saying grace) and future-Mel notes
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For Banter introducin', since I can't make the chat in person...
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Kickstarter callout: Help my friend Andrew bring swing dance to the disabled
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All righty. Time to get creative about cochlear implant financing - first step, evaluation visit. ("Kickstarter My Cochlear Implant?")
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The first night of cultural theories class, and my brain is wonderfully discombobulated.
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A first glimpse of my dissertation proposal: have I found an important problem to solve?
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Equipment for qualitative research
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The email I wrote to a cochlear implant surgeon asking how I can be evaluated as a hybrid candidate (that took 6 years to write)
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For Audrey: readings for the Epiphany
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I'm considering a hybrid cochlear implant, and I'm terrified, but I'm going to move forward.
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The Science article on the "end of history illusion" and Movies About Old People
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Welcome to The Annex; keep the channel open.
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The rest of Oregon, and little bits of Seattle, and wandering Glenview with Randy
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Biowaste dinner menu, and other assorted snippets from Oregon's reunion festivities
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They're a beautiful mess, the roots I come from.
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Trying to capture some early reunion memories before even more people arrive
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little black dress, tripod-to-handstand, the perfect bucket-list cabin by Seattle, yay for wireless hearing aid mics, and how fast my family eats eggs
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Seattle has blues dancing? Man, this summer is going to be SWEET.
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leaving on a jet plane, marble maelstroms, flying to family
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The music never stopped (again), I wish I could script accessibility services, and I wore a suit today
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Goodbye, apartment. You've been a good apartment.
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It may be that when we no longer know what to do / we have come to our real work
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Keeping space as space
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a shifting spring semester plan - yay, adventures!
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staying the course
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I live in the future: daisy-chaining wireless hearing aid devices for dance practice
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Favorite Beatles songs, coffee shop founding stories, maybe that's why my hearing aid features are deactivated (also, Mel goes to coffeeshops to focus)
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Wherein Mel embarks on a long lesson of learning to wait and stay somewhere instead of running off
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when life gives you lemons, make shandy
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New hearing aid features, eye makeup is annoying, and maybe I won't move to Columbus next term.
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backstage in the green room
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Brain-organizin' thoughts. Back squat 1-rep max, the stuff I'm moving to Columbus, other things as I eat something that is trying to pass as dinner.
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Murmuration
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Writing to breathe again: a scarf and a challenge and other untold stories
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Mel self-assesses on her current academic writing skillz (and struggles) -- and it ain't all pretty.
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My roundup of ADHD coping strategies that affect academic writing, plus the start of coaching
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Dilemna: I'm a blogging scholarship contest finalist and don't know how to ask for votes (or if I want to).
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Hearing aids: wireless technologies
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Design, Cognition, & Learning: sketching and braaaaaaaaaaains.
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Design, Cognition, & Learning: why rules hamper experts, and why design experts disagree wildly on design expertise (unlike flautists)
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Oh, yeah: I passed my Readiness Assessment, and can talk about it with people now.
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The first daughter: a midrash (from Indiana Voices of Women)
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Reflections on reflections in design
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RAT: so how do I think I did with my Readiness write-up?
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O metabrain: choose the version of "Fever" I'll dance my first solo to
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Morning meditations, trying to come to a centered and cleared mind
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thoughts spurred by discovering the social model of disability
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RAT: The Document
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RAT: What does RTR on a non-open community look like?
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RAT: What RTR looks like in real life
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RAT: Mel, it's a PASS/FAIL exam. Seriously. (Also: RTR affordances.)
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RAT: Part of me hopes that my entire thesis statement is wrong, because if it's right, it's stupidly audacious.
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An interlude on physical status: I run fast after an allnighter
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RAT: documenting conversations
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RAT: Wherein Mel finally defines, describes, and backs up what the heck the praxis of radical transparency is, sort of.
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RAT: who the heck else is doing RTR stuff?
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RAT: project management mode
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Win Open Access Graduate Student Award, then write, dance, sleep.
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RAT: document now in computerized form, 8 pages and 55 tasks to go
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RAT: I have a draft!
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RAT: More things about qualitative research
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Living Without Sound, response 4
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RAT: feminist research methods
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RAT: Paradigms
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RAT: crap, I'm stalled. gotta unstall.
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RAT: all right, research methods! what's the current state of things post-naptime?
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Surprising reactions to Einhorn's article on composing with hearing loss
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RAT: important task -- food, stretch, and naptime! (brought to you by Burnout Prevention Mel)
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RAT: finally coming to the end of my readings on affordances
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RAT: more affordances stuff -- Gibson the Second, in which I thumb my nose at positivism for the night
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RAT: starting with Gibson, figuring out what the heck affordances are in the context of RTR
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My first dance tech rehearsal: ZOMG THE COLORED LIGHTS THEY THEY THEY are awfully disorienting.
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Design, Cognition, & Learning: an (exhausted) summary for Canek of the Turns et al paper on how porfolios support reflection
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Sleeps now.
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RAT: I found books on affordances! And the gameplan shifts again.
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RAT: how and why RTR opens up boundaries and what the tradeoffs are, plus rediscovering my first exposure to Patti Lather's thinking (in 2007)
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RAT: what's the relationship between RTR and ethnography?
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RAT: starting with exploring methodologies
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RAT: thoughts on the literature I might be looking at
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Readiness Assessment: BEGIN!
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Another long mind-clearing braindump. Unless you want to read about trippy dreams, you can ignore this.
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Three perspectives on teaching design: behaviorist, cognitive, and situative lens
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Frustrationpoint: "assistive services" add inertia to your life. Also, deafness makes me look more introverted than I am.
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How would you teach signal processing to audiology graduate students? I'm doing it spring term, and here are my ideas.
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Designing technology to support reflection
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Living Without Sound, response 3
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Living Without Sound, response 2
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Living Without Sound, response 1
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Living Without Sound: a self-conducted workshop
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My first 24 hours with hip-hop: YES.
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The scholarly paper as jazz fakebook: "With a Little Help From Your Students: A New Model for Faculty Development and Online Course Design"
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Trying to come up with a response to "so, how do you become a successful deaf person?" (I mean, how do you answer that?)
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Reflections on Readiness readiness
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On time millionaireship
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Music and feelings, discipline and Beethoven and rage -- what should I hear?
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Learnable Programming: read it, then turn it around in your own brain.
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Hearing aids: an introduction to DSP in hearing aids -- let's start with the part before it hits the processor
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Design, Cognition, and Learning: responses to my comic, behaviorism isn't evil, and a terrible abuse of Maslow's Hierarchy
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Morning meditation and braindump: impostor syndrome, reunion bonfire, deafness rage, and off we go.
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Getting started with RHIPE (R + Hadoop): installing and testing
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Hearing Aids: effortfulness, or why DNR (digital noise reduction) makes a difference (it's not why you'd think)
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Would anyone be interested in having the core syllabi and annotated bibliographies of the readings of our Engineering Education PhD classes put online?
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I think I've hit my stride.
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50 years of educational psychology history in a 1-page comic (or: ADHD strikes again)
-
Regarding the nature of design problems
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Undoing the head stabilization habit
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So far, Radically Transparent Research has cost $291.98
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I might go for a MS in Industrial engineering on the side (of my PhD). Or I might be getting Distracted by The Shiny. HELP!
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My research proposal (draft) as a comic book page
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A belated thanks to Hans Sittler
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Design theorists as Zen masters - fingers pointing to the moon
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thoughts after the dance partnering workshop
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R basics: accessing elements of an object
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The thing I appreciate the most about my morning gym and dance classes is that my body is a terrible liar.
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Hearing aids: transducers that make you uncomfortable (aka "zomg it's too loud" -- plus how to fix it with scotch tape)
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Class miniproject topic chosen: Design (process participation) as a "spoonful of sugar" for joining a community
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Think about Universal Design for FOSS community experiences, not just products.
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Design researchers are trying way too hard to be post-positivist.
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On watching Melanie start exploring the parallel potential universes of her future college
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Hearing aids: transducers and resonance (or: your ear is a didgeridoo)
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Research statement draft, aka "my contribution to eating the elephant": radical transparency and discourse exposure during cross-disciplinary course design
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Accessibility and I are still eyeing each other in a wary truce.
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R: for programmers of other languages, and .First
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Hearing aids: transducer tradeoffs
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Hearing aids: intro to transducers (or: what's probably in your ear - electret mics and balanced armature transducers)
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Decompression: peanut m&ms and the sadness of towels
-
Observations of design teams: what makes teams harder/easier to jump into mid-exercise?
-
R programming: attaching files and some general comments on the language of a Star Trek variety
-
Weekend recap and meta-gradschool thoughts
-
What gives good designers the assurance and courage to plunge into the chaos?
-
Actually, the (budding) athleticism of my body is kinda cool. Also, I made the dance company!
-
R Programming: Divide & Recombine, and RHIPE (Hadoop in R)
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Hearing Aids II: placebo effect, digital vs analog, fidelity, and myth-debunking
-
Hearing Aids II: It feels so weird to listen to a timeline of hearing aid developments you lived through.
-
Design, Cognition, and Learning, class 1 and project breakdown
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The adventures of a klutzy (yet bold!) Mel in dance company auditions
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Notes from my first R programming class
-
How to help someone use a computer
-
Follow along with the zotero groups for my Fall 2012 classes
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Regarding navigating the system of academia
-
zero-sum games and the six things that make me happy
-
I'm off, then.
-
and my writing sneakers hit the streets again
-
transitionfish and the gerbil of boldness
-
Empirically verified: classical music actually has high parts in it!
-
Meta Be Bold: a roadmap to the project
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Meta Be Bold: the theme of publicly performed symbiosis, and the past and (potential) future of the project
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Meta Be Bold: the theme of improvising multitasked physicality
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Meta Be Bold: the theme of buddy boundary work
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Meta Be Bold: A tiny, tiny coding scheme's first draft
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Meta Be Bold - the first research journal
-
Sounds carry so much emotion in them.
-
When my brain tells me that I'm a language-learning failure, then... apparently I treat it like an engineering project.
-
Link roundup: lwt, giving academic talks, Indian culture and copyright, Straight White Male difficulty setting, and more.
-
Aural rehab discoveries
-
How my brain's been rewiring itself with hearing aids: music (sounds crap), language (sounds great!), water (sounds GORGEOUS), plus equipment geekery and unexpectedly emotional moments.
-
A gasping update from mid-Maymester (wonderfully busy), plus I get my hearing aids tomorrow
-
dialetical tension
-
Dear metabrain: what life-buffers do I need to set up before trying ADHD meds?
-
Applying pedagogical skillz to FOSS projects: Plover case study
-
Extended update: Strattera, pita bread, German/stats swapping, Zachery, and Nunsense
-
It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger.
-
Well, I passed my classes.
-
Mel's first year in grad school, a retrospective
-
A cool idea that failed: you can't reverse-engineer a paper for open access
-
ADHD coping strategies so far, pre-intervention
-
You can achieve anything, but not everything + ADHD
-
Project Puppy is... not human subjects research? and: the true nature of Project Puppy begins to be revealed.
-
My first film festival: Tribeca (with reviews and spoilers)
-
Things I want to write about
-
UPGRADE MEL does not accept current limitations
-
Dear feminist intellectual ancestors: thank you.
-
in order to not forget, and to realign
-
EucaDay for Remotees: the complete guide to what happened
-
EucaDay: Community session, part 1
-
Self-critique of my DML Ignite: "Productively Lost" talk (video!)
-
on not knowing what the hell I'm doing despite appearances to the contrary
-
Does assistive technology make you more independent, or less?
-
From Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side - a first peek
-
How to assign copyright to your interviewees
-
cognitive apprenticeship case studies in software engineering
-
2 more weeks until the end of term
-
In California, where the grass is greener
-
Craft of Electronics: team operating principles
-
we cannot make the best of what we are if our hearts are always divided
-
Comfort food
-
Announcing the Indy Python Workshop - please spread the word
-
The giant "Mel is a deaf engineering language geek" update
-
Office renovation proposal
-
Havoc Pennington on open projects: the student's annotated version
-
Fabulous yellow roman candles
-
Hearing aid options: down to six choices
-
Academic blogging workshop: learning goals
-
Bullshitting: a valuable life skill
-
Piloting a workshop on academic blogging; anyone interested?
-
On risk-taking
-
For UNICEF: howto do open research
-
youth is not a state to be preserved but a state to be transcended
-
tired lanky joyousness
-
why it's hard for me as an engineer to do qualitative research (2007 edition)
-
On discourse exposure
-
FOSS thinking vs academic thinking
-
Light at the end of the tunnel: 5 academic deliverables left for the semester. Only 5.
-
MSDS fun: materials in a grad school office are more interesting than previously thought
-
Tracking fellow FOSS-to-academia migrants
-
Project Puppy: first public transcript, and how I'm thinking of explaining this process to IRB
-
Sparklab: default to open, the beginnings
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Productively Lost: DML Ignite
-
Thought experiment: design an open source new-hire process.
-
Hearing aids: available techniques report
-
Behaviorism and social learning: lesson recap
-
The TOS symposium is coming up at SIGCSE
-
An update on common Euca talk questions, and a hello to Worcester State University!
-
My younger self writes my future lit review
-
Response: How do you deal with educational videos?
-
Dear metabrain: help me cram-study engineering for my hearing aid consultation
-
Jason Priem talks about altmetrics, total impact, and decoupled journals
-
Getting the radical realtime transparency ball rolling
-
Eucalyptus: a 2nd community business card design... whoa, that was fast.
-
The joy of befuddlement, and other random things
-
Eucalyptus: a first community business card design
-
Continued journeys in the assistive services world
-
Fielding common questions at your Eucalyptus talk
-
Project Puppy: getting data clearance
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Project Puppy: Robin on transparency and where our group is headed
-
Continuing adventures in open access - learning from Debbie
-
Superb Owl
-
Does your FOSS project pass the Stanford Marshmallow Test?
-
Lifehacking so far this semester
-
And the braindumping's done.
-
An engineer in the art department: disjointed moments
-
Talking institutional repositories with Mike Witt over cheesecake at Earhart
-
How to do food challenges: diet experiments with (some) rigor!
-
Project Puppy: radically transparent engineering education research begins
-
For equilibrium: publicity and Hobbes & Bacon
-
Nature vs Nurture comic
-
Oven-baked fried chicken of AWESOME
-
New Grad Student and the Cake of Academic Freedom
-
I think a lot of the things and behaviours that make an open source community work are also applicable to dating
-
Digital housekeeping
-
CATME and the SCOPE-o-Matic Allocator
-
I do not know what to call this.
-
15 minute GEECS webinar abstracts
-
Pondermel: test-driven matlab for teaching, high school software engineering, faculty workshops
-
Design my research group's collaboration infrastructure
-
The reminder
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How institutional repositories work nowadays
-
Open access makes sense for teachers who care about teaching
-
Why is there a bird and a PBJ sandwich in our picture of engineering thinking?
-
Resources for open access advocates
-
Becoming a cyborg
-
Online writing, casinos, and finally installing Plover
-
Adventures in learning German: Why I love grammar but not finding word boundaries
-
Why OA makes a bigger difference to little teaching schools, debunking the 3 major theories of open access impact, and arXive
-
The open access impact lasts for 17 years
-
Adventuremel!
-
Cloud computing is like a laundromat or a big office printer
-
Excluding books from minimalism, the discomfort of building roots, and learning how to not run away
-
Regarding IRBs and research on open communities
-
Readable Research
-
Regarding Olin's ABET re-accreditation
-
I can haz academic self-efficacy!
-
Speaking a language I can't hear: useful tools and strategies so far
-
1st draft of lit review on the open source way and education: please rip to shreds.
-
Weirdly enough, this may be the lightest semester I've had since middle school.
-
Decrypt the lights
-
Remind me why we're getting ice cream in December again?
-
Phase changes
-
How to introduce new media art students to CS: markov bananaphone
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Buenos dias. Kumusta ka? Sehr gut, danke.
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How my upcoming talk at Kenyon made me learn beamer and git
-
Habits for sanity maintenance
-
Reindeer sausage
-
Meine Erste Deutsch Blogpost
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What papers look like to a new grad student
-
So I guess I should ask for CART next semester.
-
Recommendations for opening up academic projects
-
Meet my (fictional) grand-niece Alex, a future engineering student.
-
Stanislav Ochotnicky: I am a software chef
-
How do I learn about my writing?
-
Engineering doesn't have a drop-out problem
-
My first experience with CART
-
What is Education?
-
Birthday happy to my father
-
Flyers for high school students
-
Academic identity
-
The Mann Report
-
Link roundup
-
Caught in the fall
-
the exact technologies that are in use at any particular point in time don’t matter as much as the fact that it is people being connected through them
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Engineering education learning styles
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Composing a life
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Python for kids, research proposal churning, SIGCSE workshop accepted
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A critique of Koen
-
Time to plant trees
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memory palaces, meanderings
-
Hey, Informal Learning class -- welcome to open source!
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The Condo Crew
-
What is Engineering?
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Cognitive dissonance: welcome to academia
-
Habit acquisition: flossing
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Freedom from structure: a dialogue
-
Hacking on copyright addendums
-
The unexamined life
-
An attempt to sort out loneliness
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Cape Town Open Education Declaration
-
Triple-booting Linux: Bahasa geek translation
-
Girl or boy?
-
How to build momentum in an academic hackerspace
-
Cheese vs Ekiga for Software Engineering class: responses to student notes
-
Talk Slides: Level-up with Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
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Level-up with LIES: OLF talk sneak preview
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A strange familiarity
-
Pendulum-swing: engineering education used to be hands-on... 100 years ago.
-
Alternative art project ideas
-
Lightsaber hilt design brainstorming
-
Grad school, semester 1: Mel's plate
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Halp: harness reading speed for awesome
-
Tiny bioplastic robots
-
Notes inspired by "Understanding by Design"
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Are we a profession?
-
First week of grad school in two words: learning again.
-
Is there a lazyweb fix for the paradox of localization?
-
Codecademy: intro js programming with no context-switching
-
In which Mel is saddened and bewildered by academic copyright assignments
-
Gardening!
-
Stealing techniques from the TA workshop
-
Academic culture shock: Grad student TA training
-
Computer recommendations for a high-schooler
-
A weekend's work: reunion and the Lunch N' Lost brigade
-
A graduation promise: Lightsaber
-
An aside on various means of (shallow and externally quantifiable) self-knowledge
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Help Mel sneak out of her statistics class
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Yes, I know I'm supposed to be studying engineering education
-
It is essential that the people who shape that technology represent that world.
-
drwright: GNOME-native typing breaks in GNOME 3
-
Dear Lazyweb: single-line way to ssh and run a command?
-
Fitting yourself a sit-to-stand desk
-
Yup, I'm still alive.
-
Mmm, translations.
-
Making open curricular materials is hard.
-
EduComm, Day 1: Open Source Textbooks and Collaboration Workflows
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Behind the scenes: a community workshop for Red Hatters
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Brats!
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70/20/10
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How I thought about grad school
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Reading roundup
-
The forming of a generation
-
What about people in CS?
-
Projects go. People stay.
-
Getting my groove back
-
Andragogy vs Pedagogy
-
Talk proposal: Level-up with Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
-
An R tutorial that comes with a sample study on GNU/Linux participation... or is it the other way around?
-
Connecting phrases: need some ASL translation help
-
Precision of language regarding structural cylinders
-
I can only manipulate the fire. I can't create it.
-
I can sign! Badly! But I can!
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The Source of Enhanced Cognitive Control in Bilinguals: Evidence From Bimodal Bilinguals
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Fritznotes: double and triple integrals
-
Teaching is translating.
-
Bug report: I'm boring and moping about it.
-
Learning kana by butchering the English language
-
Language learning for deaf autodidacts: Praat
-
CCSCNE notes
-
Mel's hunt for a citation management system
-
I'm going skydiving!
-
Scrapbook of Mel's brain on Sunday night
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A desperate attempt to keep up
-
Emotional awareness
-
Computational thinking in daiily life
-
Vote Beefy - seriously.
-
Now with documentation. For great justice.
-
Plateau
-
When does it make sense to package software?
-
Language-learning for deaf autodidacts: Tell Me More (tool review)
-
What Mel does during a normal day at work...
-
Quick thoughts before I sleep
-
Curious artifacts: a POSSCON talk
-
Assorted notes from SIGCSE 2011
-
The wandering hacker's guide to $project
-
Please take the Ada Initiative's 5-minute census
-
Meaningful family travel
-
Puppy!
-
Tools for RSI self-care
-
Rolfing sessions 1 and 2
-
A different sort of admissions: redesigning the POSSE app
-
Red Hat Brand guru John Adams analyzes the POSSE brand
-
Teaching Open Source link roundup
-
My first chicken
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What would you want to find out from 1,200 CS professors?
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Making POSSE Print materials, or: Mel becomes a LaTeX ninja
-
On sleep
-
Emotional intelligence on the intarwebz
-
Waxing rhapsodic about noms once more
-
Huh. Font licensing.
-
TOS whiteboard markers coming to a SIGCSE near you
-
Transcript
-
Most fun I've ever had submitting a talk proposal
-
Open source as an alternative "study abroad" experience?
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Conservation of Willpower
-
s/Pakistan/Purdue
-
Upcoming talks and balances
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Omnomnomnomvegannomnom
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FUDCon Tempe Hackfest: Wallpaper
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I've followed your instructions and I still can't bake croissants
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FUDCon Tempe Hackfest: Test cases
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FUDCon Tempe Hackfest: Etherpad
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FUDCon Tempe Hackfest: Fedora Insight
-
A whirlwind of FUDCon sessions
-
I'm liveblogging FUDCon Tempe hackfests
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Reading speed cross-training
-
Ninjahood and Italian cooking
-
Recent resonations
-
The Eiffel Tower has blinky photons!
-
Doha: the non-POSSE writeup
-
POSSE Doha, day 0: are we teaching the right things? You tell us?
-
$dayjob 2011 resolutions: Mel Chua edition
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moments of hope
-
Gingerly breaking in the new year
-
Southeast Asian transit: an exercise in being productively lost
-
Olin Challenge Fail: David ('09) in Bangkok
-
Being in a position to appreciate touch
-
Generalists ship.
-
Join Nicholas: chronicle the start of your own FOSS adventures
-
Minimal packers of the world, unite!
-
On freedom and companionship
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Mirrors
-
Kittens
-
Fellow geek feminists: help a sister out?
-
Another thing that helps me become myself again...
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Things that help me be myself
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Initial gasps of oxygen
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Pre-sleep thoughts
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Full
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Whatever you are overflowing with will spill out when you are bumped.
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In Manila
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Straining to listen
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Academic shiny
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Brain-clearing on equilibrium
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Potential
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Content vs context, mmap vs brk
-
Engineering education + open source communities = great justice
-
What did we do at FIE?
-
Have I really not blogged for a month?
-
Braindump, decompressing from Cape Town
-
#possesa Fri: 5 minutes of improvisation
-
POSSE South Africa, day 1
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Open Source Policy Map: suggestions for getting started (student project)
-
Dear Lazyweb: headset recommendations?
-
Student project: where in the world is open source policy?
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and a glass of cold water, slowly sipped.
-
Cooking and adulthood
-
Dancing
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Mission
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How to apply the open source way to the development of a teacher training bootcamp
-
Contributor? Ambassador? Mentor? Who are you? (translated from the Spanish)
-
Get-sugar instructions - newcomers needed for usability testing
-
Practicing what you teach - first followup on Fedora Classroom on distributed collaboration tools
-
Linux Security Myths: OLF talk by Mackenzie Morgan (maco)
-
Student project opportunity: MeeGo-based Fedora Spin (Marketing and Design help needed)
-
Flight
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Teaching Open Source: a mental model of the TOS community
-
Research Day
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Dear Metabrain: choosing an academic name
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Fedora Classroom, Tuesday Sep 14 at 1600 UTC - Working with people who aren't there: basic distributed collaboration tools
-
Henry Sy's tuna fish
-
Audacity
-
Happy discoveries of the day
-
Rambling and trying to get a backtrace on my brain
-
shiny offices are shiny.
-
The open source way == "how to be forkable and not get forked"
-
Etherpad FAD infrastructure questions
-
Back!
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Heads-up: call for Sugar 0.90 testers will be coming soon
-
I'm pretty bad at being tired.
-
a splendid torch
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wheeeeeeeeeeeee
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Geek moment of the day: Entropy Key documentation
-
Fedora China: Operation Raptor-Proofing
-
Mel in Transit: Now in China
-
Help me figure out my time in China!
-
packing up Boston
-
I'm bad at resting.
-
Quad bikes
-
Braindumping on projects (which should eventually get prioritized)
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Things I would like to do someday
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decompression day
-
Putting in a dollar
-
Sushi on a train
-
CommArch: Now in Portland
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CommArch in da house
-
Wanted: a Fedora tech guru for POSSE South Africa
-
Chuck Hamberg
-
World Cup weekend
-
What FOSS communities can look like from the outside
-
SLOBs update, 2010-07-11
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I would not mind universal speech-to-text translation.
-
One way to hear birds
-
In California!
-
The last few days have been good.
-
irssi + screen quickstart
-
nb: FOSS textbook commenting tool
-
Mmm, warm evenings in Harvard Square.
-
to-do braindump, Sunday morning
-
Shell script ninja help needed: weekly test image downloading
-
SLOBs discussion: what are the biggest issues in SL right now?
-
Dear sleep cycle:
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Language learning, yoga, and thumbdrives
-
Support
-
FOSSCon POSSE panel notes
-
What's the best FOSS chemistry software you know of?
-
The sort of leadership I admire
-
Partial adventure in learning about message threading
-
more braindump: e. e. cummings
-
Braindump on well-worn-ness
-
recent non-POSSE moments
-
Bugzilla notes from POSSE, and writing/journalism profs
-
Lessons from Sascha to pass on to Bao
-
Tiny adventure: flat tire (yay!)
-
Social life, hacker style
-
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee teaching!
-
POSSE Worcester: Wednesday
-
POSSE professors in Sugar-land for the next 2 weeks
-
POSSE Worcester: Day 1 (mini version)
-
there goes my ADHD brain again.
-
POSSE Worcester State: Day 0
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LE NOMS: Manhattan Edition
-
Summer running
-
The history of the SoaS Mirabelle release: learning from the past
-
F13 marketing deliverables: I think we're done - please prove me wrong.
-
Now all I need is a carafe of liquid nitrogen
-
Couldn't find a better way to say it, so:
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Fedora Scholarship winner 2010: Ian Weller
-
On being tired
-
Options for future dance/travel schedule, attempt 1
-
3:56am and dancing
-
Most of my day today
-
Queue-clearing
-
One-year CommArch anniversary
-
Maker house, revisited
-
Fedora Marketing leadership transition: w00t for Robyn!
-
It's been a full day.
-
Random acts of hot dogs
-
My summer guitar project
-
Paul Frields on opensource.com
-
Relearning how to deal with too many possible things to do
-
Sugar on a Stick contributors portal page revision: thoughts?
-
Filipino ingredients acquired, pier walk 1 of N taken.
-
wedding diagrams + dance tonight
-
Congratulations to the newlyweds!
-
the day in five bullet points
-
Trees!
-
See you around.
-
Actually, I'm quite happy about this
-
Alumni reunion night
-
My current packing list
-
spevack: +1
-
Operation: $projectname! May status check-in
-
And then tomorrow I fly back to Boston.
-
Recap: generic due to tiredness
-
Camera avoidance FTW!
-
Camping 101 recap
-
I'm liking the guitar.
-
On being J, camping, and Andrew
-
My Olin 2010 alumni slide
-
Thanks for last-minute Spin banner heroism!
-
Beautiful documentation, or: anybody got a Mac?
-
dev-love: Sugar developers, what would make your life easier?
-
Operation: $projectname! May status check-in
-
SoaS test cases: we can haz them.
-
Tired.
-
What's happening with the Allegheny class in Marketing?
-
sleep schedule can haz?
-
In response to Andrew's question
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Got stuff done! Sleeping soon!
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AWESUMXAUR
-
It's that last 1.25% that bugs me.
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2:18am for lack of a better title
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Braindump in order to keep things moving so that I can get stuff done and sleep soon
-
Wild dreams of success
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FAWN and the raptor/bus test
-
Oxygen is awesome!
-
Hm, I wonder what an 8-hour workday looks like.
-
financial independence steady-state: I want it.
-
Being A Grownup: the taxes edition
-
Coming in for a landing
-
One of today's projects
-
network of guitar-learning materials
-
Another blast from the past
-
How do you grade open source work?
-
Fedora hat fleißige Helfer!
-
Serenity
-
Easter weekend
-
While waiting for the map to load
-
Dancing and learning during the summer
-
Cliff edges over 57 years
-
Planet posts for Allegheny students
-
Achievements unlocked!
-
A letter to my younger self
-
A slight recalibration
-
Gearing up for class
-
Leap!
-
Maktub.
-
Sometimes I am my future self.
-
Slowly dawning realization
-
Braindump du jour
-
Ada Lovelace Day
-
Music withdrawal
-
Sunday morning
-
Mmmm, milk.
-
"There's a SOP for that."
-
On the other hand, it's nice to actually be productive now.
-
A Small Act / Waiting for Superman
-
extended meditations on hyperfocus
-
Where should we put the little projects?
-
Teachers: they know how to make dashboards.
-
Le Noms
-
Who's yo daddy? (Marketing FAD, night 3: the social version)
-
Marketing FAD recaps: Red Hat Summit and Social Media plans
-
Marketing FAD, day 2: Brand folks visit, actionability brainstorm
-
Marketing F12 postmortem
-
Simplest possible setup
-
Marketing FAD Day 1: remotees of the world, unite!
-
Day 0: the Marketing FAD gears up
-
Back in gear
-
Linktime and motorcycles
-
Staying with the Teschs + reading screenplays
-
Aaaand... they're off and blogging!
-
Pittsburgh when the sun goes down
-
Wrapping up the weekend
-
Fixing the Record Activity / re-firing up QA
-
CW Day 2 decompression
-
CW day 1 (not particularly coherent)
-
Summer of Code swimchart: Now With More Generic!
-
Decompression braindump
-
stdout from an overclocking
-
Meeting the students
-
We've got a release slogan.
-
view source, knife fighting, and canaries
-
Sparring partners
-
FAS scraper
-
A lonely impulse of delight / drove to this tumult in the clouds
-
Self-introduction Mad Libs: because it's SCIENCE!
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BBQ, or: Why I Missed The Ballad of Buddy Guy
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The ballad of Gui, Jenn, and Buddy Guy
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CFS SoaS update: "All he knows is that he's got to be excited about Sugar on a Stick."
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Geile Zeit translation
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My grandmother's shoes
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Bad Ideas: the instant ramen diet
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TOS in law school: posts by Luis Villa
-
F13 talking points have been chosen
-
Dangerous things I'd like to do at some point in my life
-
Tai Chi walking
-
"I can tell you how to work, how to work from Sesame Street."
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Know what you don't know.
-
Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software
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Does the stick matter?
-
Questions about the datastore location
-
Random snippets
-
How To Do Stuff
-
Music morning
-
Grand Challenge Scholars Program draft... done.
-
Because this blog isn't on Planet yet...
-
Olin: Flash Mob of Awesome
-
more brainspew
-
finance: the love of duty vs the duties of love
-
Let's sweep the Grand Challenge Stories with stories from open source.
-
Netbooks have arrived!
-
Chugging caffeine
-
"It's like the wii!"
-
Discipline! Can haz?
-
Guitar queue
-
Weekend jam: my song choice
-
Desktop Switchoff: suggestions?
-
Braindump!
-
Physical scan time!
-
Black sneakers
-
SoaS deployment hardware: the ideal set
-
Lynne May's SoaS deployment
-
Small One
-
Reminder: 2 weeks left to apply for the Fedora Scholarship!
-
Expense reports SOP
-
Blackbird: now with less suck
-
Thinking about my 2010 Sugar Labs goals
-
Jacket-signal
-
Lowering the barrier to entry only for some
-
Small research questions within open source == good student projects?
-
Upcoming weddings
-
Piano experiments: "The nearness of you" (take 1)
-
moments that snatch your heart and hold it up to the light
-
TOS track (Education) submitted for OSCON. (Time to collapse now.)
-
Events FAD: snowed in
-
Braindumping, to clear out the remainder of the day.
-
Events FAD: Day 0
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Events FAD: Day -1
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Early guitar releases
-
Musings on mortality
-
Road Trip To RDU: Complete!
-
Boilermaker! Jazz! Band!
-
SLOBs update: recruiting a financial officer, spending $300 to save $3000, and help us with trademark case studies
-
Musculoskeletal system: now with less suck
-
Sampling of activity
-
Want SLOBs to get through the Trademark discussion next week? Help us.
-
Big Mel when Big Mel was little
-
Muse-tastical
-
The world is patchable.
-
A note on introductions, please.
-
Coffee adventures
-
Lots of cooking
-
Enjoy the gourmet food up there
-
Sightreading
-
See, I do have a life outside the computer.
-
But I am, anyway.
-
It's a good thing.
-
Nomadic alternatives to a treadmill desk
-
Behind the scenes: FUDCon Survey
-
Movies movies movies!
-
Archive spelunkin'
-
Fedora Insight workflow draft
-
If today was any indication...
-
On learning how to step up
-
Peer effects
-
Ceci n'est pas une excuse
-
2010 Not-To-Do
-
Stones Into Schools
-
Luxuries I take for granted
-
Do your work as well as you can, and be kind.
-
Halfway through vacation!
-
In case someone's looking for a content/curriculum project...
-
Good and tired again.
-
Burn-in
-
They come through you but not from you
-
IMSA night
-
Brainspew!
-
The Hobby Barrier and a revision of my teaching philosophy
-
On becoming a language geek (or: Strauße stecken bei Gefahr den Kopf in den Sand)
-
What's Marketing doing for F13, anyway?: A Show with Dancing Penguins
-
After re-reading that long "why I'm afraid of grad school" braindump...
-
Ding ding ding ding!
-
What happened to sugar-love?
-
Why I'm afraid to go to grad school
-
Old video watching braindump mode.
-
Can haz desk!
-
Going to college next year? Time to apply for the Fedora Scholarship!
-
Digging out a path of least resistance
-
Oliners who have inspired me recently
-
I've been doing a lot of cliffjumping recently.
-
Hofstede cultural dimensions, used entirely not-as-intended
-
What I learned by cooking collard greens
-
Latest lifesnippets
-
How I read books
-
Open source marketing as storytelling
-
College majors for cousins on my mother's side
-
FUDCon Toronto: It's survey time!
-
6 pots of tea later...
-
Recent happy moments
-
Studying engineering inhibits your ability to suspend disbelief
-
Teach us how to fish(.src.rpm)
-
Please Steal This SOP
-
A lunchtime pause
-
suspend/resume
-
Help Melanie close Audrey's first ticket
-
Abt Vogler
-
Mostly unpacked
-
Melmobile: the update
-
FUDCon Tuesday: the bus, the aftermath
-
Zikula hackfest
-
FUDCon zikula hackfest: the gameplan
-
FUDBus: The Arrival
-
Blast from the past
-
Recalibration
-
Found: picture of License Server (band)
-
On toddlers and racing penguins
-
Musing about phone features once again
-
Road trip!
-
This is what I look like in rant mode
-
Ideas for monthly sprints
-
FUDBus riders / Boston folks with couches, read this.
-
So if you see me online in the next 8 hours, yell at me
-
Dashmirror v.3.0 released
-
Alt.Mel
-
Marketing: The Fedora Wikipedia page
-
Whoa, I did something well and didn't flip.
-
This year's Thanksgiving feast
-
world-bridging FAIL
-
Typing in 中文
-
Pink gloves
-
Introvert
-
Morning and evening reading
-
Reply to Cory
-
The "stay awake until it's bedtime" jetlag-fightin' post
-
Fedora Marketing: what's happening with F12 in the press?
-
Braindump from Tokyo
-
I relicensed.
-
Potentially offline 'till Thursday
-
Balikbayan
-
IRC logs from the 2nd POSSE
-
The ability to choose your string quartet
-
How to become a release notes editor
-
New vocabulary!
-
New Bloggers: adopt-a-lecturer!
-
Scripts that amuse me, and then some other stuff
-
another kind of home
-
recipes for magic that ain't magic
-
The Invisible Traceback
-
The perfectionism-fighting thread
-
Planets. They are awesome.
-
Nightwalk
-
Get to know a Fedora Ambassador or User
-
POSSE APAC Day 0: What's up, and how can we deploy multilingual awesome?
-
Arrived in Singapore
-
Off to Singapore
-
And the sun will be coming up soon.
-
Cousins: the tag team
-
Mel : clothing :: technology : most people
-
November lifehack: punctuality.
-
Hailing taxis
-
Museum Day
-
Let's just get the rest of that thinking out, shall we?
-
RIT Math4 projects: how can we engage classes more?
-
Soccer field brain rewiring
-
Bass: acquired!
-
Teaching Open Source Summit: The Resulting Documentation
-
I am proud to report...
-
First time I heard a wolf whistle
-
Towers with round things at the top that spin around
-
Snippets from the last few days
-
Marrow
-
FUDCon ad: fixed! (Wow, that was fast.)
-
This is what happens when I wake up at 5am to Inkscape something.
-
How I paid my phone bill
-
Talking is teaching! That's all it is!
-
Community Architecture: the first retreat: the recap: the subject line: colons!
-
Request your FUDCon funding now: cutoff Thursday 19:30 UTC
-
A train of thought I haven't looked at for a while
-
SLOBs: coming up with a decision-making process
-
Budgeting time
-
Week in review + "Fedora" in ASL
-
Can't sleep, so I'm going to write about dreams.
-
Why is Boston cold? Why do I live there? Oh right. Geekiness!
-
Email shoveling, interrupted
-
My only goal tomorrow
-
Off-day: SUCCESS!
-
How to spend 4.25 hours blasting classical music on the radio
-
Things I've learned today
-
todo braindump for tomorrow morning
-
tiredness FAIL
-
The past has worth.
-
Traveling and alarm clocks
-
I wish there was an instantaneous laundry-washing machine.
-
red velvet cake does not make sense
-
Pulling a talk together: a process snapshot
-
Mm, lemonade.
-
Look, incoherence!
-
Marketing archive-reading fun
-
Nomad-hood vs settling-down
-
Other things that happened today
-
Touchdown Jesus
-
Must... improve... anaerobic... capacity!
-
K12 Open Minds: Open Source? What is this thing and why would I want to use it? (Randy Orwin)
-
Been a long day
-
Solomon
-
A note on old posts about Olin
-
Why Mel is running for SLOBs
-
Typhoon
-
Can't sleep. Mental flywheel turning.
-
Blogs: a mental time machine.
-
Purdue! Excited! Too excited! The sentences, they do not come out rightly!
-
Open College Textbook Act: Email your senators!
-
How can we make it easier for people to send patches?
-
One way of explaining CS to high school kids
-
Rediscovery: I'm bad at noticing time passing.
-
Marketing: on the making of sharp axes
-
Why did you register for the GMAT?
-
Help me design a scholarship (or two).
-
Hi. My name is Mel, and I'm female... and feminist.
-
Ah, the metabolism of youth.
-
Workflow hack weekend
-
Evolution of the Charlieplexing Wikipedia page
-
Mentoring in open source communities
-
Because I am too tired to write a proper post tonight...
-
Sugar on a Stick discussion highlights
-
Snapshot
-
How could I learn any other way?
-
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Tesch!
-
Thought-ordering on Thursday night
-
First adventures with my x200
-
Things you can take for granted if you hear
-
Marketing: Write an "I use Fedora" story!
-
I'm going to be a runner.
-
Back to irssi
-
Orientatoredded!
-
Switch-flippin'
-
random thoughts and patience
-
An example of learning in Fedora
-
Ingraining user-centered values
-
Marketing: HOWTO write a press release
-
Keyboard thunder
-
On luggage
-
Welly Testers strike again
-
Assorted notes from a first week in DC
-
I can haz job!
-
What's white and commutes?
-
Fedora: The Magazine. Can/should it come soon to a news stand near you?
-
Semantic MediaWiki test case system is alpha-ish, needs owner
-
Cousins
-
September
-
can haz offer letter!
-
Vitamins
-
Back from Raleigh.
-
Decompression.
-
Downhill bike
-
What TOS stuff is happening at your school?
-
Things That Exist
-
Light a flamethrower
-
Completely unrelated topics
-
Space! Space! Space!
-
How the zikula-based test instance of FI was put up, part 1
-
Fedora Insight is going up as a zikula guinea pig for F12 after all.
-
Joining Infrastructure
-
Oh fine, I'll shell out to get myself some stable infrastructure.
-
Retrospective decompression
-
Resting up for the marathon
-
A weekend in New York
-
Growing into instead of growing out of
-
Passing on sea fever
-
Downstream: Sugar Labs reporting Fedora tickets
-
Assorted notes from today
-
Schedule freeze and project management
-
Marketing: F12 schedule
-
Engage MEGA-TOOLING MODE!
-
Still in Raleigh
-
How to lasercut a logo
-
Reprioritization
-
My laptop is all shiny-fresh on the inside now.
-
--verbose
-
Trying out an idea.
-
Raleigh Farmers' Market
-
Automating new-computer configuration: sanity check
-
Time for another adventure!
-
Will you marry tea?
-
POSSE erasers
-
POSSE Thursday: Education Remix
-
Some education-related links
-
The kind of school I'd like to teach at
-
Law: the original open source profession
-
POSSE Tuesday: working together
-
Speakers: obtained.
-
POSSE Wednesday: our classroom setup
-
POSSE Tuesday: contributor types and making safe spaces
-
Yet another conversation on the future of input methods
-
POSSE Monday: this history of OSS
-
POSSE Monday: Helping students find projects that make them come alive
-
POSSE Monday: How Seneca got involved
-
How I learned to talk with people
-
1:46am, and I couldn't be happier.
-
POSSE, day 0
-
What's it like in SFO?
-
Riding with Addi and Emma
-
Short links
-
Things I'm learning from business travel
-
Picture dump
-
Imagine teleporters.
-
Filming lectures before becoming a professor
-
At least the pantry is clean.
-
been measured
-
The POSSE logo: progression
-
test-ability
-
saag paneer
-
saag paneer
-
Deep gladness meets deep need
-
Graduate schools
-
Connections
-
almost crashin'
-
NECC[2] = Tuesday
-
U of Kansas joins the "open by default" scholarly publications club
-
Reminder to self
-
Please thank your schools today.
-
NECC Monday continued
-
Morning rest
-
Last question of the night
-
NECC[1] = Monday
-
NECC[0] = Sunday
-
NECC[-1] = Saturday
-
Twittering #necc09
-
Mike Lee's fortune cookie the day before setting up the Sugar Labs NECC booth
-
On the road: Washington DC
-
Lists of lists
-
Tighten before you grow
-
back in gear
-
Remedial early childhood motor skills development
-
My general plan for July
-
On booking travel
-
below the elbow
-
little sister
-
How to find a Gill
-
Piano practicing on the road
-
n00bthoughts: producing my first .rpm
-
I'm going to NECC!
-
headache
-
Did not kick quite so much ass this week. Oh well.
-
Overly cerebral
-
I found something to do with my EFF tape
-
Groovin' backbeat
-
Why today was awesome
-
Mantra of the week
-
Freaking insane Charlie Parker trumpet runs
-
Sure enough: better POSSE logo ideas
-
Recent meals
-
Linky time
-
Update on POSSE
-
And I learned about alternative music notation too. Yay for Elsa!
-
Fedora wiki shortcuts (for FIrefox)
-
Snapshot of my day
-
Fedora website: graphical notes
-
Someday, my travel standards may rise.
-
Release earlier and more often
-
Upcoming Fedora education spin... with a twist.
-
Radical transparency: guys, it doesn't work retroactively.
-
Responses to objections on transparency
-
(partial) win!
-
Looking for things to do?
-
Communications of the ACM: OLPC analysis
-
Scripting my piano routine
-
Coping strategy
-
"...rock would be a good description."
-
Happy panic attack
-
haz kitteh on mah lapz
-
Highway
-
Boot animations
-
The sink
-
Exciting-hat!
-
The POSSE advances forth...
-
Routine needs some adjusting
-
Did I mention that I'm really really excited about community stuff?
-
Last night in East Boston
-
Stupid Idea: The Gap Year Savings Plan.
-
A foodie in the making
-
Signs you may have found your calling
-
Mel Is (more) Excited (than usual)
-
"Mama, how old are you?"
-
Breathing in
-
3 things for tonight
-
What it sounds like to hear like Mel
-
sink!
-
Impending trip to dry-cleaners
-
The living room light won't stop flickering.
-
Shiny Red Box!
-
Scales and arpeggios
-
Recurring emails
-
Happy.
-
Hm.
-
We're Filipino!
-
Why I am a credentialist, which contradicts myself
-
Online personal finance software: the face-off
-
Loving a school 2 decades down the road
-
It's a good way to start your 23rd year.
-
Computer keyboarding with auditory awareness
-
Tallstanding photos: as far as I can go alone
-
Tiny things I can outsource, part 1 of n
-
My summer learning project: Documenting Things On The Intarwebs
-
The Long Haul Club
-
Tatum technique
-
Bach. Is kind of nuts.
-
Net Worth Experiment: May 2009
-
The Net Worth experiment
-
Books: turning stocks into flows
-
Tools for hands
-
Getting past the first time
-
Time for today
-
Back from Rochester
-
Flash forward: in 20 years
-
aslo .xo updater proposal
-
(come) holy spirit
-
Scattered thoughts
-
Cousins on my mom's side
-
Linktime!
-
Audiogram: more explanations
-
TRAIPSING ACROSS MINEFIELDS HERE I COME
-
With the advent of less computerage...
-
Relationship with computers: update
-
Spring cleaning
-
9s and flat 9s week
-
bandersnatch came home prematurely
-
Community Leadership Summit: Begin The Saving-Up!
-
I'm going to learn how to be rich.
-
But tomorrow I should finish installing voice rec software
-
In addition to hanging out with Henry today...
-
Other recent occurences
-
Incremental steps: filing my own taxes for the first time
-
First deconstruction of wrist pain
-
Flashback time
-
Open Source + Textbooks + Education
-
Looking for a recipe
-
It's starting to run in the family.
-
Experiment: new email autoresponder
-
Employability?
-
The secret sauce is customers.
-
First long update since the RSI started
-
The Boston deployments need some help.
-
RSI does not want.
-
The phobia lasted 17 years.
-
Boston deployments updates
-
This post typed with dasher.
-
I can handle bad things happening to good people.
-
You teach... should I? Where?
-
Help me not get RSI: ideas?
-
anti-rsi break
-
Ready for apprenticeship
-
Priorities
-
Today I learned to count.
-
Of course we work on open-source projects in the dining hall.
-
Mother of all funk chords
-
Sugar Labs's GSoC org app: Now with pilots!
-
Tunescript
-
The bootstrap hypothesis
-
The most frustrating part is that you don't know if you're imagining things.
-
Pizza day
-
Yesterday was a music day.
-
Post du jour (of yesterday)
-
post del giorno
-
How to design impossible things
-
Working on the Boston pilots
-
Deployment tech teams need ticket trackers too
-
Music bewilderment: a dissection
-
My work affects me, but it isn't me.
-
Process vs bureaucracy
-
Art makes me notice things
-
Cooking experiments: week 1 results
-
Why do we assess the way we do?
-
Concerts, Lent, negotiation, and kicking ass for startups
-
Knife skills were practiced yesterday
-
Nomadic working
-
The Great Guitar Hunt
-
Sugar: Now with smoke tests!
-
Revised: tomorrow's big rocks
-
Making a new OS install feel like home
-
Shortcuts: becoming a SL information-finding ninja
-
Cooking: The curriculum
-
Still being friends with projects
-
I am "Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups."
-
When the student is ready (short version)
-
When the student is ready (long version)
-
Color schemes
-
Things to say when I let someone down
-
Things to do tomorrow
-
Classical music improvisations
-
I don't actually get excited by children, it turns out.
-
John Tierney's blog creation walkthrough
-
The chandelier
-
Out of commission for a few days
-
Sudden Onset Sickness
-
I like work, it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
-
Dvorak timez
-
The Bill of Rights, as revised by law school netizens in 10 minutes
-
raise TooMuchMetaError(msg)
-
Debates and publicity
-
Pick a thing and do a thing: late-night chronologue
-
Would anyone Like Stuff?
-
Backlog: Sydney
-
SHFT, the key of GD
-
Wherein we discover that furniture has moved in the middle of the night
-
Migraine time!
-
Time budgeting! Now with béchamel.
-
Catnip distributor
-
My first recording
-
decentralized != local
-
QA meeting of extreme length
-
Go to bed, Mel.
-
And as for the rest of today...
-
Remora: User-facing Activites hosting
-
Diagram transcription: OLPC community discussions (drafts)
-
That must be the daystar. I've heard talk about it.
-
Dogfooding learning
-
Plateau abruptly terminated
-
Resolutions to contradictions (for now, at least)
-
Infinite Optimism Drive!
-
My bags are (nearly) packed, I'm ready to go...
-
self.compete_against(self)
-
Jazz and marathons
-
Shell voicings and nomadic instruments
-
Unjobhunting
-
Sugar sessions from FUDCon, transcribed
-
Wonderful Week of Free Time
-
Really, folks - it's a beginning.
-
Only inadvertently a minor kind of ending.
-
Designing by instinct
-
Mel.availability("FREE!")
-
The things I want to start the day with
-
Action item: sleep at night.
-
Sociology class notes
-
Plugging along
-
Learning how to become something
-
Why math is beautiful to me
-
Non-resolutions
-
Notebook pen loops
-
Kinetic typography and typewriter art
-
Inbox cleaning: 0
-
Textbook writing: behind the scenes
-
The introduction to the textbook I've been writing
-
How to be an academic 101 - the booklist
-
Designing technologies for different cultures
-
April 1, 2007: Goals
-
Inbox cleaning: 82/I've stopped counting
-
Inbox cleaning: 199/763 (The Procrastination!)
-
Dreams of Someone Else's orchestra
-
What I wrote
-
The voice of reason is more difficult than expected to ignore.
-
Clarity
-
Passing the Hamming test
-
self.motivate()
-
"No, not knowing is better. At least there's still hope."
-
Being normal
-
It's hard to be aware of things.
-
More from TWITMWU
-
Sci-fi story fragments
-
Long day.
-
Wiki vandalism: the firefight
-
LittleBigLife
-
Whoa.
-
Hey, look! Incoherence!
-
Writing about beautiful things instead
-
Our books are full of answers to questions no kid ever asks.
-
Bleah.
-
On needing permission to be tired
-
Inbox cleaning: 127/763 (a.k.a. an attempt to distract people from my last post)
-
Sugarcamp: 5-minute talk on community
-
Some nifty marketing
-
Making rules about legos, making assumptions about people.
-
Ben Fisher on HyperCard
-
A jacket that blends into Harvard square
-
Inbox cleaning: 139/763
-
Here's what I'm trying to do. (The current draft.)
-
Things I have chosen
-
What versions of Activities are shipped with G1G1?
-
Should I try to travel?
-
Mel n' Collie
-
Because it looks easy until you do it
-
Inbox cleaning: 148/763
-
Just finished prepping for the next community test meeting
-
An empty house and things that I should do
-
Flakitude
-
Mental constructs
-
Inbox cleaning: 175/763
-
Mel's G1G1 User Saga, Part 1: Does Not Have Workingness
-
The policy clock and the pedagogical clock are not synchronized.
-
Pausing for breath
-
Inbox cleaning: 192/763
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Inbox cleaning: 477/763
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Inbox cleaning: 644/763
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Inbox cleaning: 652/763
-
Going for inbox zero
-
The problem of articulating problems
-
Brain is quiet
-
Shameless plugs and languages
-
Week in review
-
Image roundup!
-
Tue ace key seems to be broken.
-
I'm going on vacation.
-
Instead of brainstorming
-
Right now I'm thankful for a glass of water.
-
Clearing my brain so I can sleep
-
Winners play Calvinball
-
Day 2 of 6
-
We need a better XO transport cart.
-
What's this... "pry-orry-tea-station" thing?
-
it's actually all right right now
-
Sugarcamp starts tomorrow
-
Maintenance time
-
Crunch!
-
Fractals on whiteboards = how to love
-
The people at 1cc
-
Braindump, #N (I've lost count)
-
(another) brush with... 'fame'
-
Recruiting: OLPC Social Media Warriors
-
Things that I learned at work today
-
I remember now why I'm still here.
-
Oh. About that experiment in productivity:
-
Tonight I am filled with admiration
-
Emptying out
-
Lifeboat ethics
-
No manual entry for relaxation
-
Braindump du jour
-
Blog posts from friends
-
Bassoons
-
I fail at microwaving parsnips.
-
SWEBOK
-
Lunchtime: a good time to go through notes
-
Cumin is my friend.
-
Making "someday" more concrete
-
My train of thought hops rails like a manic iron bunny
-
One Velociraptor Per Child
-
An almost perfect normal day
-
More 6-word short stories
-
Reading, Riting, and Rithmetic
-
Braindump
-
I'm not actually trying the Uberman sleep schedule
-
I question the functionality of my logic sometimes
-
Thursday morning ramble
-
It's walking time.
-
test community icon + test training
-
may you live in interesting times
-
Soup and stability
-
Word wrap: more adventures with sed
-
Is it ok for uncertainty to be ok?
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C. Scott's Journal design ideas talk - posted!
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The hunt for headphones
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Code review tools?
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After lasagna
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Have people in charge of whatever they are
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A stab at writing down my modus operandi
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unstoppableness += 0.000001
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Day in the life (again)
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My god, it's full of scales!
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Mingusmingusmingus
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On why stagnation is unlikely to ever be my problem
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reason #15923 why I love my job
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What I taught myself after work today
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Sword over my head
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If I had a million dollars
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Re: Fedora gots mad skeelz, yo
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Why startup founders don't sleep
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A photo series I would like to see
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Status update
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How do you toot your own horn silently?
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If you give a Mel a stove...
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Day of Awesome
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Why bounties fail
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One of these things is not like the other
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Brainstorming! Brainstorming!
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What can we use for BigBoard connectors?
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Cables cost money.
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Yay for random input!
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And now, good interruptions:
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More powerful than caffeine
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Healthy communities
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A certain kind of isolation
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Burning the midnight oil
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Reactions to Mark Pesce's keynote
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Forging a software development community
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Find Mel (100 points)
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unordered paths and ASL
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Media snips I collided with today
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pianopracticer.py
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Looking for pei pa koa
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How to test for memory leaks
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Bullet point night
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My OLPC weekly report
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Resuming sessions without the proper Activity makes life interesting
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Yawn...
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I now hit things in ensembles
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Upgrade testing for data integrity
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First day at work: XO collaboration testing
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There are more than two types of chords?
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Less butter. Much, much less butter.
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2 habaneros + 1 serving size = PAIN
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Friends who do cool things
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Morbidity!
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Finances part 4: What to keep how long
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Finances part 3: folders, or: what do I file?
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Food tour of Boston
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Finances part 2: what's tax-deductible?
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Finances part 1: spending categories
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Do I have any superpowers that you'd like to learn?
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New-thing 2 week timer
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In Glenview
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Jason is here
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Old posts part 3
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Old posts part 2
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Old posts part 1
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Out to the cape
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Inertia!
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They made fondue!
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I live on Yavin IV
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Spicy salsa is actually spicy. I like it.
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Moving in: cultural differences
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Stealing some wifi from the neighbors
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Draining brain of excess thought so that I can sleep
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Summer /EOM
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Freeze frames from the last week
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self.take_care_of()
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Mel security vunerabilities announced (again)
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Huh. It's possible to be distracted by your brain going quiet.
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How can we take time out to help people get in?
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Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick
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Apparently I write about People and Things
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Further adventures in learning to speak English
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Recap of Andy-conversation
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Conversations worth driving for
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Hm.
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Did you know you can make clicking noises with your tongue?
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Braindump! Now with old posts!
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Welease Woger!
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Another thing before I go to bed
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Vent
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Chicken scratch
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Leopold & Loeb concert ---> happiness
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All saints day
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Speech therapy!
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I can has brain!
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Brain fibrillation
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I can has musik!
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Small sampling of topics on brain during last 24 hours
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Book meme
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Lunch at the office
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My piano! I missed you.
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Play! Play!
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I have internet again.
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Grassroots bootcamp recap
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Grassroots bootcamp, day 4
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Grassroots bootcamp, day 3
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Grassroots bootcamp, Day 2
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OLPC grassroots bootcamp, Day 1
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lack of communication frustrates me.
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Getting back on Planet Olin
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Too tired to think of a title for this post.
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Mel.status = semi-functional
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Scattered braindump
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Drew: an educator's response to Clay Shirky on cultural expectation of the 'net
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Applying to things is annoying.
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People. They are complicated.
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Happenings in DC and 1cc for the past week
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What are my contributions?
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(more) XO repair guides
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Looking for successors
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Presentations at the Media Lab today
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The ILXOers arrive
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Olin's class of 2008 has gradumacated. (Crusty silly people.)
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English through advertising
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Apply for the OLPC grassroots bootcamp!
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Bugmastering - a first pass
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My first shell script: bundlemaker
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Can it be studied? If you chase it, it slips away.
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Whoa. Pika has a fire alarm!
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It will get worse and it will get better. Keep working.
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Mattresses!
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Money and love... and poi.
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The Mel goes to Washington
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How I celebrated my birthday
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Talking with Andy leads to lack of sleep
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Release when usable
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Braindump: filipino hacker space?
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Mentat Month: Ceasing annoying speech patterns
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How not to get addicted to social networking
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Old versions of familiar ideas
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email-fu: my current system
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Going away to come back
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Happy Nth birthday, mom! (Where N=50.)
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Smoking out logical fallacies
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Site mockups, mentat month, and health books
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Ignorance of limitations is... bliss?
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Writing to get my brain back
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Health Jam aftermath
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Yet Another Internal Monologue
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In Seattle
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prelude: Mel++
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IRC deconstruction: bahasa geek translation
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Various and sundry
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Last day at TOPP
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Trac internal trackbacks (TracBacksPlugin)
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letters, idols, and feedback loops
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After reading about Montessori
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Some things I love tonight
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What do I do in May?
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beginning in open source
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Awww!
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On openness and privacy
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and back into abundance!
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On registration, patience, and the Met
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Braindump in scattered shards
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The calm before the storm
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after playing with grep
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This time last year...
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More notebooks...
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set_trace()
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A letter on Maker House
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Notebook snippets
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INFP!
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Old notebooks: the cleansing
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For the record:
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Life: Update from Tuesday through Saturday night
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Grammaticality
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Installing Trac without root privs
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sprint! sprint!
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Conference talking, talking, talking...
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(Eu)stress
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I can has self esteem? More?
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One way to deal with an email backlog...
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Analog vs. digital fabrication
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The letter I mailed today
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Eh, maybe I'll post something useful to other people tomorrow?
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After 4pm today, I...
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mind.state() == hypersensitive
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On policies and processes
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Testing in context
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Impending transplant to Manhattan
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Goals for this week
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Whoa. I know kung fu.
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Learning to test and otherwise keeping busy
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Small happy moments
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Eat your cat food.
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Who'd like to swap functionalities for a day?
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Pollard's rules of life
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OpenPlans: Week 1
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How do you do electronics tear-downs?
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Note to self: don't move by bus
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My current favorite screenshot
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The dentist song (for Mom)
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Extra screws and headless screens
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I am a text-based ninja.
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XO speakers and interesting parts
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What's special about Olin?
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How do you run an open source company?
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Opening spiel at Speak Africa
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Open source higher ed: more than a bunch of independent studies
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Keyboard is fixed, OLPC Chicago was fun.
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Language and fixing my keyboard
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Got a round tuitt?
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Filipino advertising
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Some fun old pictures
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Be nice to your support staff. They're trying to help.
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If you give an IMSA student an XO...
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In Chicago
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Dual citizenship?
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Upcoming downtime
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Mathematics roundup
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Hi, I'm the new blog.
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A nose by any other name would still smell.
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Backwards balikbayan box
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More incoherence!
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Mass production!
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Lumpia
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Lakwasa
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Oooh, fishies.
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Hofstede cultural dimensions
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Is open source actually open?
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Regarding money...
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Where are my eyebrows?
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Tie an orange ribbon...
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I can has babelfish?
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Di tou si guxiang.
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Why am I blogging?
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Cagayan de Oro
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Ha! productivity!
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Some starting thoughts on SparkEs
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Tiny roadblocks
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Market day & visiting grandfather
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ARTHRITIS: The Conquest! or: I miss libraries
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the day before Taipei
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The best thing for being sad is to learn something
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Manila, II
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In Manila
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Explaining a tracheotomy to young children
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Sherlock Holmes for engineers
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Other people being funny
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20 guiding principles of computing
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Flying and gloves
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fdisk /dev/life
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Degrees don't limit you.
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Online and offline laptop usage
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Moment of silence
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pulling an Erdos
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A dialogue with my body
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Glenview is ridiculous.
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Back online and not looking forward to it
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Steal, drink, lie, and cheat: skills for a happy life
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Is this the real life, is this just fantasy
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Free textbooks - different philosophies
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The past 24 hours have been - interesting.
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The best thing for being sad is to learn something
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Thumbs up, thumbs down.
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Cam: fishing for better prices with mobile phones
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Jamendo rocks (no pun intended)
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The Tale of the Scipline Islands
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Learning parables
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Why you should or should not go to $schoolname
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Stuff I've enjoyed reading in the past 48 hours
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Laura's on Worldchanging!
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Stigmergy: why engineering educators reinvent the wheel?
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mel.unstable.0.3.1.tgz
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This will probably be one of the last posts on this blog
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Announcing the Summer of Content
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The quest for plane tickets + recipe for Tim Neng
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Computing thinking
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It's official.
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Things I never thought I'd appreciate
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Up on the roof
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Powering on!
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Learning about PGP and microformats
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Endless summer, or: with a single click, you can sponsor an OLPC Education Jam in the Philippines
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4th of July: "Boating" "on the Charles"
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Standardization vs specialization
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Money is like chocolate.
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I miss creative writing.
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Wei wu wei
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Back from Vancouver and Seattle! And boy am I full.
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This book is not required
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Beer and an unrelated note about social entrepreneurship
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Visiting the Zen center
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Game Jam pictures, finally
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Entrepreneurship without a business
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Books vs mobility
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A salute to the grounded
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The Jam is Over.
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Game Jam, Day 2
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Game Jam, Day 1
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Olin students are slackers.
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Obligatory my-little-brother-graduated-from-high-school post
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The question is will it get done, not who is doing it
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Why now?
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Toothbuds and commercialist zen
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Finally looked at my transcript.
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Mel Chua, college graduate... and furniture mover.
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Design Squad @ Continuum (belated)
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ECS tutorials follow me into my sleep.
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In Chicago, and glory do I have a communications backlog.
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Justice or mercy?
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The exponential decay of attachment
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Suite dinner
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Ondelettes are adorable.
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Glory be, I can write about education again!
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So I turned 21...
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Another milestone?
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Graduation speech: Pass it on
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Voice rec keyboard
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Short update
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Public Service Academy and We Have No Water Again Again
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I should be an Engineering:Education major.
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Something I never expected to happen
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Design as enlightenment
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News flash: we're not innovative.
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Summer job to encourage Olin staff innovation, bikes and financial planning
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Rules of Meta
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Parents on unschooling
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Cultural effects on self directed learning
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Learning how to practice music
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On unschooling
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A request for designers
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Grouped tightly for your scheduling convenience
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Carrot on a stick
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Biology, the blockbuster
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Stepping outside the story you live in
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Kernel dump
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History of grading
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Corollary to "all models are broken"
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It doesn't matter where you're going as long as you know where you are
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Results of the artistic streak
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They won't tell me what to do
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Rice and salt in paper packets
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An unexpected homecoming
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We should be making beautiful things
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Ok, I'm done.
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Jealousy
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Why I won't be earning money this summer
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Boxes and arrows
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Competencies comments
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How I get my brain to sit still sometimes
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Further discoveries of why I need to work in education
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My name totally works out.
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Polyglot content on the OLPC
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[root@mel ~]#
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Mel learns to meditate (or tries)
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Where by "artifact" I mean "engineering toys."
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In lieu of whining
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Help me figure out an algorithm?
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What's your frequency?
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Academic freedom and political correctness
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Vive la resistance
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Let's talk about plasmids
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The shower-curtain and Coanda effects, and velcro and randomness
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Redefinitions that I'm fond of
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Summer plans - the unedited version
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How to install a Textpattern website on Dreamhost
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Food from the Philippines
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An unexpected vacation
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Bill Buxton on design sketching
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In the moments before I come clawing back up for air
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Gender and negotiations
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Buddhism == Brian Bingham
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Sign through your cell phone
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Trying too hard to be something?
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Herbert Hoover on engineering
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Immersion in the anthro world
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So am I an engineer... or what?
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Back in the U.S. of A
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What it looks like to hear like Mel
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Hearing aids that don't amplify
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Talk about the world exploding.
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Guinea Pigs Learn Better
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Worksheets as a math teaching method
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SigSys, piano style
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What are signals and systems?
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Why are you here?
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My new voicemail message
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Letters from the other side of Mel
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Ambient information as a replacement for classrooms
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Tipping points for the online autodidact
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The flesh is willing but the spirit is a total pushover
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Long-distance triage: sometimes it's good stuff.
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Another short eclectic reading list
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Clothes shopping: the aftermath
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My Christmas present: clothing
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Constraints
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Back in Chicago.
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A web design newbie's reading survey
-
The winter break to-do list
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ConnVex
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Posts from last year
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Thinkers and doers and the OLPC
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Other people's expectations
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Craziness: the antidote to boredom
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Wise fools
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Call for procedure for attaining maturity
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The original competencies paper
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The Olin Curriculum: Thinking Towards The Future
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Artist's statements
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Amusing fact collection
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Hackstar 2.0 : not just white males?
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Seely Brown on passion-based learning
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If you want something done, ask the busiest person you know.
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Idea clusters and ice crystals
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Hackable == green
-
Geek moment #0x3c52ab9
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Live the questions now
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You might be a future grad student if...
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Blinky lights
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Hair and sun
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Back to IMSA
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The babies! They are everywhere!
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Random Acts of Engineering
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Ooh, a memory dump.
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Learning journals and peer commentary
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The Prodigy Point
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PBL doesn't work?
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Hurtling towards the void
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Overloaders Anonymous
-
The future of transformational learning
-
President's Council dinner
-
Have you thanked your teachers today?
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Chicken Feet
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A thank you to my teachers
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Building Olin, the interlude
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Patents for good, patents for evil: the Blackboard case
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Generation of Greatness
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Spiral learning: it's like your toes.
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MacArthur foundation and Digital Learning
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The Olin timesaving roundup, version 1.0
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President Miller on creating a new paradigm
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Captioned videos online!
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Those who teach, can.
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Villanelle for our time
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Launchy
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Minimalism vs Fullfeaturism
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The Tipping Point
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Braindump. Carry on.
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Of course we're typical college students.
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The art of learning how to meet productively
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Barcamp: Drupal tutorial
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Barcamp, Day 1
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Howdy from Barcamp
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Running noses and PDAs
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Audio processing and accessibilty design for the deaf
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BAHBC days 8-10 and the Mobile Ergonomics challenge
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Ego begone.
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Oh, my feet.
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Why colleges are so hard to change
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Math... and SCOPE! (factorial)
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Braindump
-
Wearable Captioning Device: a 6th grade project turned real
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Mel on personal finance (you may laugh now)
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Blueberries yes, voting no.
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"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you."
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BAHBC: Days 4-7
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Lifehacker: tips for off-screen reading
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BAHBC: Day 3
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Book review: Self Renewal
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BAHBC: Day 2
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BAHBC: Day 1
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Plan for the next 10 days
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Back at home with Mom's Macbook
-
Crenshaw melons
-
Muse - my first concert
-
Mel goes to Stanford
-
Wikimania bloggers needed - citizen journalists unite!
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Not quite on earth
-
Oh frabjous day!
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Too many topics to count
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Realizations of the week
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The making of a student
-
Backstage in the kitchen
-
Summer = explosion of energy
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begin(decompression);
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Reflections on finals week
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Old-school Chinese marriage restrictions
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Mom & me
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Post-Olin options
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The Gift
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Inter-class rifts & apathy: last year's take
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Project idea: Electric-acoustic travel guitar
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Buying in without selling out
-
Home for a reunion
-
Why is engineering uncool?
-
Things I learned today
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Classroom bug reports: asking for help productively
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On the future of libraries
-
Information Design: engineering datastreams
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How to cultivate an uberstudent population
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How to cultivate an uberstudent population
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The world is too much with us
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Musical phrases of happiness
-
Design team dynamics
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AHScap and closing doors
-
Sleep and dad
-
How do you "get" lectures?
-
A Cadeic Cadenza - geek poetry
-
The Harvard Guide to Happiness
-
Being biased against bias
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The long work-haul: insert triumphant music here
-
Buying kitchen knives
-
New monitor == isolation, mother's coming, application time
-
How to give a presentation without speaking
-
Two random memories
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Must... optimize... life!
-
The well-balanced geek
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A little experiment with wording
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Jet lag and the revelations of solitary
-
Home again
-
Life in the Philippines 3: I miss vegetables
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Life in the Philippines 2: faith, food, and GK
-
Happy New Year!
-
Report from the Philippines, week 1
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Return of the sleep debt
-
mel.age == mel.age
-
Can Olin's grading system be changed?
-
Reading: My superpower
-
Conventionality
-
I'd like my nasal passages back, please.
-
Sanity management
-
Burning the candle at both ends
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Ron Jeffries on Passion
-
Information Design - a new discipline?
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Wait, I don't have to be an ECE?
-
Laptops out, family in, schedule almost set
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Asking good questions, nocturnality, tradition, and in memoriam
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On the future of libraries
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How do you learn unleadership?
-
Mel's off-duty vest
-
Swallowing pride, finding a focus, loving design, and breaking aluminum
-
Epitaph
-
Solitude isn't all that bad.
-
Tethered!
-
Snow!
-
Holy Overdue Work, Batman!
-
More memes.
-
20 things
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Costuming
-
Wow, my brain is so broken.
-
Parents' Day Orphan
-
Yee Frickin' Haw.
-
-
Sudafed is great!
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My throat hurts.
-
New books!
-
Me + Lectures = Incomprehension
-
Freezing rain
-
Ah, academia.
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Drop one thing
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Sit down and shut up
-
Winter productivity
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