Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
- Siva Afi
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- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
Every rainfall in August increases the chance that we'll be allowed to use real fire in the New Student Orientation show!
RT @blakeleyhpayne@twitter.com
I keep thinking about what the world would be like if we taught software engineers that building a technology is like getting a dog - it’s a lifetime commitment.
RT @CodeWisdom@twitter.com
“Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time” - Michael Feathers
RT @mhbaskin@twitter.com
If the exact intersection of your interests is graphic design and a deeply abiding hatred of partisan gerrymandering, then have I got the font for you:
RT @mikko@twitter.com
Rarely is anyone thanked for the work they did to prevent the disaster that didn't happen.
RT @jessesheidlower@twitter.com
Trend in onomastics: Male names become increasingly female, eventually hitting a tipping point. Names that were 100% male in 1900 that switched: Allison, Hilary, Kelly, Lauren, Lindsay, Michelle, Morgan, Shelby, Sydney, Tracy, &c.
Tipping-point stats at https://nameberry.com/blog/unisex-baby-names-names-that-morphed-from-blue-to-pink https://twitter.com/RebeccaBuxton/status/1156540127851798528
RT @Rainmaker1973@twitter.com
This cotton candy guy's wizardry is actually a brilliant application of the dynamics of vortices in fluids http://bit.ly/2ogNFcW
(Oddly, the Android Twitter app doesn't seem to offer a way for me to associate descriptive text with the image. It's a photo of a book called Real Variables.)
Small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri &c
RT @kareem_carr@twitter.com
me: I discovered a new statistical law that says that all jokes on twitter are based on other jokes on twitter
friend: that’s really cool! what do you call it?
me: *slowly takes off sun glasses* regression to the meme
RT @qikipedia@twitter.com
The Rhind papyrus, an Ancient Egyptian treatise on mathematics, opens with the phrase ‘Directions for Attaining the Knowledge of All Dark Things’.
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Word of the day: FLYGSKAM (Swedish) — embarrassment over flying on planes due to the negative environmental impact of aviation; literally, a ‘flight shame’.
Today I learned (from this post) how to keep either file in a merge conflict. http://disq.us/t/7hz5c
RT @jbillinson@twitter.com
I’ve fallen deep into TikTok and I can’t stop watching this dog in a bow tie crushing its owner in an eating contest
Guacupuncture is the name of my next band.
Corporate accounts: if you tweet something entertaining, people might retweet it. If you pay for promoted tweets, you'll just get blocked.
RT @profmusgrave@twitter.com
Person 1: welcome home. Did you have a good day looking at screens at work?
Person 2: yes, my screens were good. How were your screens?
1: they were less good, so I’d like to watch something on the big screen in our house.
2: okay, but I might use my small screen while we watch.
Fundamentally, Footloose and Rock the Casbah are the same story.
RT @SikhProf@twitter.com
US immigration officials picked up a 9-year-old girl on her way to school — and they detained her for two days.
It turns out that she is a US citizen. But even if she wasn’t, the way they’re treating kids is unconscionable.
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
