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I Don’t Pay for Coffee
Financial advisors hate lattes. Apparently we can stop all this absurd drinking of our foofy coffees, invest the money instead and at the end of our lives we’ll be gazillionaires with yachts. Yay, yachts, sometime way off in a nebulous future in which I want a yacht. Meanwhile, there is this, my standard order: The woman…
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On Feeling OK
Hey, guys. That woman up there… she knows how to write code. She also knows how to have hard conversations, comfort the hurt, love whole-heartedly, and solve astonishingly difficult physics equations. She has climbed mountains, floated a flower down the Ganges, ridden a mountain bike down a ski hill, and written words that made people cry.…
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Escape Fantasies
I am a master of the art of the escape fantasy. I have read a long list of books by people who ventured around the world, walked out their door and didn’t turn back, moved to other countries, or took on absurdly ambitious adventures. I am particularly partial to stories of circumnavigations. So when I was…
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A Burger
I might just be posting this to show you what happened when I took my teenager out for a hamburger the size of his head. He thought I was exaggerating.
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Design Decisions
(Cross-posted from figuresthingsout.com) “Circular buttons are very friendly and approachable.” – Meng To, DesignCode.io I’m reading along in the iOS Human Interface guidelines, and they’re talking about embracing “borderless buttons”, and I think, “How is that different from a link?” and then remember that I didn’t realize I could click on those things when I…
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Spiritual Crosstraining
Last week I had the great opportunity to go to Gampo Abbey to attend a teaching by Pema Chodron on the subject of “Living by Vow”. Pema (as we affectionately know her) is an American Buddhist nun in one of the Tibetan lineages. As such, she is carrying forward a long tradition, with forms most ornate.…
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#MicroblogMondays Scurrying
I’m having challenges keeping student-Seonaid, CEO/Founder-Seonaid, Mom-Seonaid, and Just-Plain-Seonaid all sort of going in the same direction. I’m pleased to report that there is a website for nerdique.com. It’s a pretty bare-bones WordPress site at the moment, but we’re in the middle of building a completely different back end. Node.js, and a whole bunch of…
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Re-Presentation
I used this title for a unit I once designed on hybrid learning. We (as instructors/artists/writers) gather information, and knowledge, and patterns, and meta information about how we validate the information, and knowledge, and patterns. Then we turn it back out into the world, re-presenting (representing. Or if you’re all post-structural, (re)presenting.) “This is the world…
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Begin Again
Yesterday I went skiing. The last time I went skiing I was in my early 20’s, and everything was different. My life, what I was going to be doing, who I was, my body. It was all different. Yesterday, I strapped on the skis, and presented myself at the foot of the bunny hill. Rode the…
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Code is Easy. Money is Hard.
Another autumn, another new blog. This time it was a requirement for a school program. So far, it has been focused on the problems of learning a new programming environment, language, blogging platform, and how all the pieces fit together from a technical perspective. But that is not the point of the program, and I…
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Squirrels, Time and Is-ness
“Has it really been that long?” I ask, looking at the date on my last post. The evidence is categorical. The date on my last post is July 7. And life has continued on apace. “They” are clear. If you want to build your blog, you must post regularly. At least once a week. Daily…
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An Afternoon with Arthur
I looked out the window on Saturday during “post-tropical storm Arthur” and noticed that there were small-to-middling sized branches on the ground all around my car. I was concerned about the windows. I said to my mother, “Um. Do you think that the cars should be parked directly under the trees?” “Hm. Maybe not. Let…