I played around with Flock for like ten minutes. It’s cool (the integration with del.icio.us and your own blog is awesome) but it is super slow. I have a gig of ram on my laptop and it was crawling. Typing up the last post took five minutes – the response rate was that bad (I’m typing this from FireFox right now). It is a “developer preview” so I shouldn’t be too harsh.
In any case, it’s a nifty idea and I’ll play around with it some more when I’ve got time.
I’m blogging from Flock right now.
I dug up my personal statement for admission to SI from two years ago and found this gem:
Furthermore, your program highly interests me because of its Practical Engagement Program, which allows students to practice in a professional setting the skills they have obtained in the classroom.
Other than that blunder, the rest of the essay is pretty good . . . and might be recycled for other purposes.
The new HCI shirts are here . . . designed by me . . . so don’t knock them! ;)
I actually don’t have mine yet . . . they’re all at apete’s house right now.
In the mornings, I usually ride the blue UM bus (the Northbound commuter from Crisler Arena to the Art Museum) because I really don’t want to arrive on campus all sweaty and nasty. Like most mornings, this morning’s bus was pretty jam packed with people so I couldn’t find a seat and instead got to stand for the five minute ride to campus. As I was holding on to the rail, I was looking over the shoulder of a seated woman who was reading a Christian book about stuff that you really shouldn’t think about at 8:30 a.m. (you know, things like going to hell). The book was conveniently printed in pretty large type so I could easily read it along with her. One of the bolded headings that was printed in all capitals made me giggle – “SHALL WE GO ON SINNING?”
I’m not sure why but I found this particularly amusing. In fact, I was trying my best to not bust out laughing.
Throughout the rest of the day, that heading just kept popping back in my head and I couldn’t stop giggling to myself.
The University seems to be convinced that I’m graduating this semester . . . a semester early.
Umm, the last time I checked, I still need to take 688 and a cognate. And then there’s that whole thesis thing, too.
Mattbot and D.* think I’m on some HCI fast track that I’m not even aware of.
*By the end of this semester, I think mattbot, apete, and I will convert her into a blogger.
Today was Mom’s birthday. Thanks for everything Mom.
My sister Nabeela (8 or 9 years old), Mom, and me – 1980 or 1981 in Kuwait.
I love this picture. My sister hates it. She thinks that it shows how marginalized she was in the family at this point of her childhood. She points out that when Dad was taking this picture, he didn’t even bother to get her whole head in.
LOL.
One of my “studies”* got IRB approved today! And it didn’t take 3 months!
Now if I can only get my IRB approval for my thesis, I’ll be rockin and rollin.
* I’m still trying to get used to using such loaded words in my speech.
The tendency to use unnecessary scare quotes appears to have infected the rest of my group! Why is “iPod Nano” scare quoted?!? Eeeeeck!!!
