Category: (dis)continutity
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Daily Digest for July 21st
Key to dealing with students that want a grade changed: talk about what interests you academically. They will run in terror. [#] Published [Not] Gone Google Crazy Shared [Not] Gone Google Crazy
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[Not] Gone Google Crazy
I’ve already established that I have a certain weakness for toys, and a certain Google Toy found its way into my hands recently. That experience was pleasant, and I gave the device nearly two weeks. Push Gmail was nice, and I am a fan of the full keyboard in the device. I firmly believe that…
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Magic: the Gathering – Game Designer Training Ground
As if my blog hadn’t managed to establish as a given fact, I’m a nerd. “Geeeeeeeeaaaaeeeek,” is a phrase that describes me and I have no reservations in that. Though I do remain steadfast in my un-dorkiness. But the splitting on hairs aside, I had a revelation while playing Magic: The Gathering – Duels of…
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I am a Giant Toy Robot…
Ocasionally it seems important to post something different. Thus, apparently, I am a Giant Toy Robot. More importantly, I am “#8 in a series of extraordinaryroadside attractions in Georgia.” As a 40 foot-tall toy robot, I should have had more friends in elementary school. But, I digress.
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The Consequences of Vilification: The Decline of CS and “Security”
I wrote a post just about a year ago on how “Hackers and Hombrewers are NOT Pirates.” Like most of what I post to the web, it serves little more than to remind me later of the evolution of my thoughts on particularly relevant research interests. Like beer. Recently however, there has been a resurgence…
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Free Glasses are Cool
I love the “trap” or Trapeze bar in Athens. Occasionally they have glass nights, which provide me with future beer glassware.
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(De/In)spite of everything: I Play with my Avatar
With all of the items on my to do list, what on earth am I doing? I’m futzing around with making images of my Xbox Live Arcade Avatar so that I can post them online. Because that is time well spent, right? I can say something about gamer/street cred and social networks, but the truth…
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WordPress Crankiness…
Well, I’m not sure at what location the deviance occurred, but my blog was compromised momentarily today. Though I may occasionally curse my iPhone and its inability to adequately convey to me my current location and all of its nuances (like rock in place of a street), it did alert me to the changing of…
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Sudden and Accute Toy Fascination
I’m not sure what the cause is, but I’ve developed a recent fascination with yet another toy I do not have. My toy-lust is legendary, at least in my household and I frequently have difficulty restraining myself in their acquisition. This compulsion to acquire and tinker with bits of hardware is of course partially linked…
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“People ‘Back Then’ Must Have Had Better Imaginations…”
Indeed. As far as faculty/professors are concerned, I’ve always considered myself pretty cool, but I’m beginning to suspect that my students think of me much in the way that I thought of my more… challenging professors. Apparently my grade distributions are second only to the “law” faculty in the department and my ability and indeed…