Articles
2020
2019
- We are always making choices; how might we maximize their impact?
- ASLCore is a team sport
- Early notes on role fluidity
- A 2017 description of my future lab
- Peer mentoring goals from 2 years ago
- ADD developers and academics
- Curricular design Venn diagrams
- Mac apps startup
- One Test More (another Les Miz parody)
- Clybourne Park
- Getting set up for circuitpython development
- To not be safe from errors (with ADHD sidenote)
- Interpreter prep example
- Three Deaf engineers and a discussion on ASL software vocabulary
- Another future project braindump
2018
- More FOSS course feedback and tools
- More want-to-read notes: parental choice, deafening qualitative research, software as material, data feminism, cripping the university
- For later thinking: a braindump
- Integrity, not reliability
- Today's observations on my ADHD
- Image Description: Race Matters - a story about white privilege
- On rescinding guidance documents
- On ADHD adaptations
- Blog reboot, Jekyll edition
- Open Science Songs: Sign This Publishing Plan
- Open Science Songs: Do you hear the people sing
- A puppet show on objectivity and quantification
- Students Assign Me Homework, Fall 2018 edition
- Starting point: constructs of culture and curriculum (with Tess Edmonds)
- The time when I met Rebecca and Stephanie together (a Deaf academics story)
- Compagnie Kafig (old notes writeup)
- Post-conference happiness from FIE
- Wingsuits and giant eagles
- How do I make my conference more accessible/inclusive?
- Feedback on the FOSS projects course (RIT) from spring 2018
- "What is Engineering" in the inaugural issue of Murmurations
- ASLCore: affordance theory, or "thing-inform"
- ASLCore: stress/strain curve zoom levels
- Why I can’t (yet) teach engineering in ASL
- Parents have visited, semester winding down
- Presenting at RIT's Interdisciplinary STEM Ed Research Forum
- ASL lector notes for the Easter Vigil Mass - 1st reading (Genesis 1-2, Creation)
- Mass Lector prep notes, part 2
- Mass Lector prep notes, part 1
- The doors we leave open
- Music and movement as a reboot/shuffle button for my atypical attention inertia (ADHD)
- Why Deafening Engineering? Because onto(ethico)epistemologies.
- APA style and qualitative research methods resources in ASL
- Thinkaloud: missing home and missing people, but where are the spaces in which I can actually live?
- I love the rhetoric in this guide to online conference accessibility.
- RIT FOSS projects: midterm praxis reflection assignment (feedback welcome!)
- Liveblogging RIT's FOSS projects class: initial questions for community spelunking
- What goes through my mind on the first day of teaching as a faculty member
2017
- Seeing myself in the (literal) mirror at NTID's IT office
- Talk notes: "Technologies that wake you up" from a DHH perspective
- The CAT Lab Abstract Sorting Hat, Version 0.1
- Lab research setup email: creating Zotero accounts
- Things that have made me happy lately: qual methods companion resource in ASL, my upcoming review of wake-up systems
- Thanksgiving recipe rap: Alexander Hamilton
- Reading effectively: how my practice evolved from engineer to scholar
- Playing with O*NET visualizations for degree program proposals
- Gallaudet Peer Mentoring Certificate Program: first impressions
- Book braindumps: E. D. Hirsch, Jr. - Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs To Know
- Dissertation defense slides and transcript now available (help me find a better way to publish it?)
- First notes from learning audio engineering
- Curricular principle: being as well as knowing
2016
- Silliness: how one might possibly set fire to the rain (as per song lyrics)
- Thoughts on Matthew Guterl's piece on "surviving graduate school"
- On writing: a glove that fits
- Comic: Products and Practitioners: how a visibility of developmental processes aids in practitioner formation
- Comic: 7 Techniques Adapted From Cognitive Apprenticeship Theory
- Oral deaf audio MacGyver: identifying speakers
- Starter back and shoulder workouts
- Some thoughts that I don't want to have, regarding people getting shot
- Postmodernism for engineers: the (draft) collection
- Postmodernism: paradigmatic comparison
- Postmodernism: what engineering education might learn from the "postmodern turn" in educational studies
- Postmodernism: a troubling of the historical narrative I just provided for postmodernism
- Postmodernism: a (reluctant) historical progression
- Postmodernism: in engineering (education) praxis
- Postmodernism: what is it? (for engineers)
- Postmodernism: slicing and separations (agential and other cuts)
- Postmodernism: many truths and meanings (intersubjective, intertext, signs, signifiers, slippage)
- Postmodernism: power and agency (readerly/writerly)
- The Feast of the Assumption always makes me smile.
- Brief notes from England: Sally and Steph
- Grandparent communications
- Writing spaces
- Reading the labels of canned beans
- Startup/shutdown and research circuit routines
- Qualitative research: the discussion section, or: "kryptonite - so what?"
- Things I want to remember while writing
- QualMIP week 11: semester feedback
- Musings on movement and somatics in qualitative methodology
- Want more inclusivity at your conference? Add childcare.
- High-level reading notes: "Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe"
- Another research progress-organization braindump
- Facebook page public personas cannot join groups (experiment results)
- Notes from talking with Ruth
- QualMIP week 10: topic tracking and project progress
- QualMIP week 9: alignment of project components
- Current thesis articulation problems, aka "postmodernism is hard"
- The ADHD Academic: a ritual of typed thinkalouds
- Notes from a DeafSpace talk by Hansel Bauman, plus going voice-off
- One current answer to "So how's the writing going?"
- QualMIP Week 8: narrowing research question and unit of analysis
- The infrastructure that supports a dissertation is ridiculous.
- QualMIP week 7: close reading of data
- QualMIP: interim game plan clarification
- Braindump edition: playing with language to describe my research
- QualMIP week 6: first project-focused "research meeting" and getting "better" at "this," for some value of "better" and "this"
- Learning activities for when your students are exploring areas you don't know (inspired by open source)
- QualMIP week 5: fumbling into project mode
- Advice to a high schooler about pursuing teaching and learning
- What does the word "maker" mean?
- QualMIP week 4: artifact analysis scavenger hunt
- Update, dissertation, braindump style.
- My philosophy on how to change the world
- QualMIP and Insper: finding our habitual scripts
- QualMIP Week 3: protocol testing and "qual is everywhere"
- QualMIP week 2: Interview nonverbals
- Thoughts on my family's language
- Curriculum is for, by, and of both faculty and students
- A few shiny things on engineering identity
- QualMIP week 1: sensitizing to nonverbals
- QualMIP starting agreements: fieldwork focus, grace weeks, sustainability, and more.
- How Future Faculty Mel wants to be evaluated
- If I post this thought I've been avoiding, can I start focusing again?
- Communion
2015
- Thoughts on "Transformative Conversations" (a book on faculty mentoring communities)
- Dissertation memo: Julia and the faculty literature review
- Brain-fragment: what can we infer about our pedagogical beliefs by looking at the software we design?
- Speak out against MBTA paratransit cuts
- The sections of a research study
- What isn't (and is) the Collaboratory?
- Writing this in between dissertation sprints
- On the relative openness of text/document formats: .txt and .csv
- Sticky Engagements, or: how to get students to plaster walls with self-determination theory stickies
- My college ring as an adaptation for both deafness and ADHD
- Short comics about hearing aid tech
- Loud music in the car
- After The Rain, part II
- My bio blurb for tomorrow's ASEE diversity panel is a shameless call for help on my dissertation.
- Recipe cartoons from "Cooking Mondays with Mel" and our ESTEEM service dinner
- From Debbie Chachra: what I want to tell my future research students when they start
- How and why to caption your engineering tutorial videos
- Protocol draft: codesigning classes with my (future) students
- Ite, inflammate omnia: on Pentecost, impossible lipreading, and the wine at Cana
- If I were to teach 1cr/cocurriculars at Olin, what would they be?
- Being deaf is: unlearning "paper face" (proceed until NAK vs. wait for ACK)
- Members of the Olin community respond to NYT "How To Attract Female Engineers" article
- On the diversity-readiness of STEM environments: "It's almost as if I could only enter the makerspace as a janitor."
- Megan, or: holding pool towels at the First Luminous Mystery, and satellites, and light
- Being deaf is: choosing between having emotions and communicating them (also: "met deaf wow" moment)
- Being deaf is: unknowingly mispronouncing lots of common words
- Welcome to Italy. I'm an illegal immigrant from Holland.
- Thoughts on being a deaf extrovert
- On contract/specs-based grading and intrinsic motivation
- Sarcastic Mel Sighting: backstory of "Communicating Is So Inefficient" (PRISM column)
- Learned today: babies are 3kHz vuvuzelas to match the Fletcher-Munson curve of hearing people
- Pushing back on the STEAM acronym
- How to succeed in engineering as a disabled person (poem)
- Realtime transcript of "Using Realtime Transcription" FIE 2014 talk
- Summarizing all of JEE's guest editorials from Jan 2005 to Apr 2008
- Processing with Esteban and Davin: first sketch prototype, quadrant brightness
- How I use Zotero to take research reading notes
- Being deaf is: not having add/drop week
2014
- Holding the Cup
- I need a better word for "this kind" of writing that tries to hurl its words across a gap.
- Small comic strips from my first time in a deaf-accessible hotel room
- Near-peer advice from 1st-time engineering education researchers
- Last summer's Zambia reflections
- How to play Speakeasy Secret Santa
- Being deaf is: polled I/O instead of interrupt-driven
- Being deaf is: constant baseline soundmaking anxiety.
- (New comic): Mastery (Dreyfus model of skill acquisition) on one page
- Can you take over my sponsorship of a special-needs child in Zambia?
- How To Use Your Design Studio Instructor: a short comic book
- (New comic): Baxter-Magolda's Self-Authorship Theory On One Page
- Dear world: if I work on accessibility for 5 years, can I have it for 50?
- ok, I'll try learning how to run; this should be funny
- not burning out during Bad Accessibility Week, and career advice from deaf academics
- Being deaf is: holding a hidden, uncollapsed wave function on your side of a conversation at all times.
- Research Is Fun: Using children's art supplies for my first-pass data analysis
- Unlock challenge: raise $1024 for The Ada Initiative, support women in open tech/culture, and unlock more open-licensed "programming learning styles" material!
- "Performing" programming, and other apprenticeship-related themes in early Hacker School Book data
- Guest post by Gabrielle Ewall: proposal to use Bayesian statistics for understanding Hacker School learning styles
- Being deaf is: straining to lipread restaurant order numbers
- Marriage essay 1: what's marriage in today's culture, and what do you think a good marriage is?
- Some things I want my kids to learn
- Academics with academic mothers: a total side note on cultural capital
- Journalistic vs scholarly writing: notes from a meeting with Alice Pawley
- Thus saith the JON: using open-source Bible software to navigate my dissertation data
- Alex and Lisa and dry feet
- Mel's learning styles profile (spoiler: it's not a surprise)
- Visualization examples, external cognition, and starting to play with text data
- Welcome to my dissertation: a poststructural perspective on engineering and technology faculty as learners
- Want to give Mel homework? Help me think of a visualization term project.
- The hidden cost of deafness: organizing access behind the scenes, aka "why Mel hates logistics"
- Using mid-semester feedback discussions as a catalyst for self-directed learning
- Learning styles for programmers: active/reflective
- My favorite passages from the ASL Bible: Little Kid Wanders Through Big Temple, Awkward Erotic Poetry, and CYMBALS
- Unpacking a conference accessibility request email (deafness)
- Hacker School book update: rescheduling storytelling interviews
- Psimulink Psalm and Rhomeo & Julihat
- Email example: articulating (deaf) access needs for academic conferences
- Postmodernism in a 3-panel comic
- What does "becoming a better programmer" mean? - Assessments Brainstorm Edition
- You know, I used to.
- Oh boy, worksprint exploding! With tea.
- Wrestling with angels: poststructuralism and Catholicism
- Braindump ramble starting from "contemplative scholarship"
- Prelim sausage-making: narratives as methodology, part one
- Prelim sausage-making: the cognitive apprenticeship section
- Prelim sausage-making: Seb points out poststructuralism is all over my study design
- Prelim sausage-making: Ileana gives me synonyms for "interview"
- Stephen's question: how do you tutor fellow researchers in programming?
- Test Driven Learning: setting learning goals for yourself, Software Engineering edition
- Finally lost inside a concert: remembering "Blessed Unrest"
- The Joyful Mysteries ought to be called the Terrifying Mysteries
- Self-portrait in acrylic: behind the scenes
- Sanctuary
2013
- Some writing practice using moments with my family
- Small Mel Self and the discovery of cold cream ("It's moisturizing!")
- It's a good life for a Mel.
- Psychology research on agency and willpower and Deus Caritas Est (are somehow connected in my brain)
- Rewiring the "Run Awayyyy!" habit
- Creaking forward into Prelim v.1 - thoughts on an imperfect process of scholarly writing
- Chua's 3 criteria for Radically Transparent Research (things sound silly when I put my last name on them)
- Trust in the slow work
- Nelson Diversity Surveys: statistics on USA faculty diversity (spoiler: depressing)
- What does a PhD preliminary proposal look like before it's done? Here you go.
- Talking About Leaving: a book that blew me up in undergrad
- Then, less-funny stuff: readings on sexual orientation in engineering education
- First, funny stuff: Genderbread Person and APA sexuality definitions
- on vulnerability, inasmuch as I can express it with words (or: "I wish I could dance this post as I speak it")
- The chapel and the PhD committee chair: a short story of 2 awesome advising meetings
- Call for ideas: help design a "Gender/Race/Class" class on "interrupting the discourse that perpetuates inequity"
- Reading notes: "Masculinities" by Raewyn Connell
- I like existing.
- Freewriting on what-shall-I-do-this-summer
- A book review in comic form: The alphabet vs the goddess
- Reflections on the role I take at Hacker School
- For Julia: on my relationship with writing
- This American Life's episode on Testosterone: quotes that struck me
- Notes on "Short Introductions: Gender" by Raewyn Connell - red and blue and paint mixing
- Scattered notes on race in engineering education: stereotype threat, Asians as model minority, racism-without-racists, OLPC
- EduPsych for Hacker Schoolers v.1.1 (presentation slides)
- a quiet celebration (aka "not a brain-in-jar")
- Reading notes: Whiteness of a different color: European immigrants and the alchemy of race.
- White privilege in engineering education
- Class, Race, & Gender in Engineering Edu: Race Reflections Week! ("Geez, why am I reflecting on my potential future kids so much?")
- Reflections on freedom
- Class theory in engineering education (notes 2 of 2, "AAH we're perpetuating it!" and "whoa intersections with deafness!" edition)
- Class theory in engineering education: it's actually a thing! (notes 1 of 2)
- Sketchnotes: "How To Be A High School Superstar" by Cal Newport
- Living in the whisper
- If a broke grad student can do it, you can too: donate to @adainitiative and patch the open world to be better for EVERYONE.
- Reading notes: Culture & Power, Engineers & the "Working Middle Class"
- Engineering Education Discourses on Representation: Why Problematization Matters (Beddoes, 2011)
- #pyconca Sketchnotes: Linn Vizard on industrial design for programmers and Greg Ward on Go for Python hackers
- EduPsych for Python Hackers 2.0: revised, expanded, updated
- PyCon Toronto Saturday Sketchnotes: Max Thayer on NLTK and Lynn Root on PRISM
- I watch foreign films on flights because they come pre-subtitled.
- Hacker school: introducing yourself to unfamiliar open source projects
- Hacker School Session: engineering learning styles
- First day of Hacker School residency: thoughts from a corner
- Back in East Hall at Olin for a little while
- A mid-trip update from Zambia, wherein my classmates and professors blog for me
- Headed to Zambia to meet myself, offline for a while.
- Black print on thick white paper, serif font.
- Spending my 27th birthday at home
- Cleaning out notes from Cultural Theories class
- In which Mel works on lowering (some of) her defenses around "proving" her "worth"
- Some early drafts of dances in my brain
- Things that remind me of the world I want to live in: airports and nerds and IVoW
- trying to be brave enough again, again, again.
- Dealing with a (mildly feverish) distractomel
- Reactions to a(n incredible) Colbert Report fanfic with alternate-universe deaf Jon Stewart
- Do fewer things with greater love.
- HOWTO think poststructurally
- Full talk transcript: "Psst: wanna eavesdrop on my research?"
- Psst: wanna eavesdrop on my research? My engineering education seminar presentation.
- Notes from "Getting Smart": All accounts are fragmentary/incomplete! I'm missing things! So what? I'm happy.
- I need to reach across worlds to be all me, be all there.
- A post-Easter explosion about silence, now that Lent and giving up -v is over
- Thoughts on ABET accreditation criteria for Dr. Kelly
- May we suggest: Columbus, Ohio
- HFOSS Tech Talk at Georgia Gwinnett College, and an unexpected place-of-speaking-from
- Video (subtitled!) and transcript for 2013 PyCon talk, "EduPsych Theory for Python Hackers"
- The quick and dirty FAQs for starting a research blog: hesitation-fightin' version
- EduPsych theory for Python Hackers: slides and an extended Q&A with further-readings
- Allen Downey's "Bayesian Statistics Made Simple" workshop: a recap and review
- PyCon signal processing workshop materials
- Making the midwives of makers: a (3-page) poststructural view on engineering faculty development
- A path is built of steps.
- Xworks concert Fri/Sat: neon yellow duct tape, fishnet stockings (grr) and dancing in a library (yay)
- Silence is not death, finding and leaving Mason jars of water, and the oddness of not wanting to travel the world
- My past selves write me: little tired SuperMel, running-from-partitions Mel, subway-surfing nomad Mel. Hello there.
- Be a whirlwind with awareness and the ability to stop, to make a breathing room and space for... Wait. Wait, that scares me.
- How to conduct a basic hearing screening with a $1k machine that could be a $20 open-hardware Altoids-tin design
- Giving up my --verbose flag for Lent
- Friday morning notes: social constructs should be constructable by all.
- Ash Wednesday and a roughness inside me typed in words; what I believe, how I pray, why the divine is part of my package.
- For Audrey: these three things remain - faith, hope, and love. And they're all ridiculously hard.
- Addressing liability issues when using live text transcription (CART) for qualitative research data collection
- Help me spend $ on microphones, or: how does a deaf ethnographer record 8 people in a noisy room?
- Distractomel: perfectionism is the opposite of good time management
- Favorite bits of "Women's Ways of Knowing": midwife-teacher, constructivism summaries, being "in" at the start
- Aliveness snapshots: 80's songs at 5:30am and double-socks and dorm memories and gorgeous cinematography and English muffins with my kindergarten teacher
- 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."
- A last food hurrah before 5 weeks of training, Mary Anne's letters to her children, and Shut Up And Write success
- My dissertation proposal as a 2-act play
- Coaching notes from Sally: outlining is writing, the priority principle, Turning Things In Already (they don't need to be perfect)
- I was going to write about other things, but here's the world as it has captured me lately...
- Using live text transcription for qualitative research interviews: methods notes after a first experiment
- 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?
- Up-Goer Five, Ethnography, and Obscure STEM Jargon versions of my dissertation proposal abstract
- 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
- Hey, Oliners -- a nifty white paper on how other schools are developing "engineering leadership" talks about us.
- Coaching notes from Sally: how to evaluate opportunities and deal with uncertainty through means other than overscheduling oneself
- Making poststructural works navigable: notes on Cavallaro's signposting tricks
- Signal processing teaching adventures and remembering my first "holy shit" teaching moment
- Mass readings on Jesus's baptism for Audrey, thoughts on prayer ("hey God, OM NOM NOM!" is saying grace) and future-Mel notes
- For Banter introducin', since I can't make the chat in person...
- Kickstarter callout: Help my friend Andrew bring swing dance to the disabled
- All righty. Time to get creative about cochlear implant financing - first step, evaluation visit. ("Kickstarter My Cochlear Implant?")
- The first night of cultural theories class, and my brain is wonderfully discombobulated.
- A first glimpse of my dissertation proposal: have I found an important problem to solve?
- Equipment for qualitative research
- 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)
- For Audrey: readings for the Epiphany
- I'm considering a hybrid cochlear implant, and I'm terrified, but I'm going to move forward.
- The Science article on the "end of history illusion" and Movies About Old People
- Welcome to The Annex; keep the channel open.
- The rest of Oregon, and little bits of Seattle, and wandering Glenview with Randy
2012
- Biowaste dinner menu, and other assorted snippets from Oregon's reunion festivities
- They're a beautiful mess, the roots I come from.
- Trying to capture some early reunion memories before even more people arrive
- 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
- Seattle has blues dancing? Man, this summer is going to be SWEET.
- leaving on a jet plane, marble maelstroms, flying to family
- The music never stopped (again), I wish I could script accessibility services, and I wore a suit today
- Goodbye, apartment. You've been a good apartment.
- It may be that when we no longer know what to do / we have come to our real work
- Keeping space as space
- a shifting spring semester plan - yay, adventures!
- staying the course
- I live in the future: daisy-chaining wireless hearing aid devices for dance practice
- Favorite Beatles songs, coffee shop founding stories, maybe that's why my hearing aid features are deactivated (also, Mel goes to coffeeshops to focus)
- Wherein Mel embarks on a long lesson of learning to wait and stay somewhere instead of running off
- when life gives you lemons, make shandy
- New hearing aid features, eye makeup is annoying, and maybe I won't move to Columbus next term.
- backstage in the green room
- 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.
- Murmuration
- Writing to breathe again: a scarf and a challenge and other untold stories
- Mel self-assesses on her current academic writing skillz (and struggles) -- and it ain't all pretty.
- My roundup of ADHD coping strategies that affect academic writing, plus the start of coaching
- Dilemna: I'm a blogging scholarship contest finalist and don't know how to ask for votes (or if I want to).
- Hearing aids: wireless technologies
- Design, Cognition, & Learning: sketching and braaaaaaaaaaains.
- Design, Cognition, & Learning: why rules hamper experts, and why design experts disagree wildly on design expertise (unlike flautists)
- Oh, yeah: I passed my Readiness Assessment, and can talk about it with people now.
- The first daughter: a midrash (from Indiana Voices of Women)
- Reflections on reflections in design
- RAT: so how do I think I did with my Readiness write-up?
- O metabrain: choose the version of "Fever" I'll dance my first solo to
- Morning meditations, trying to come to a centered and cleared mind
- thoughts spurred by discovering the social model of disability
- RAT: The Document
- RAT: What does RTR on a non-open community look like?
- RAT: What RTR looks like in real life
- RAT: Mel, it's a PASS/FAIL exam. Seriously. (Also: RTR affordances.)
- RAT: Part of me hopes that my entire thesis statement is wrong, because if it's right, it's stupidly audacious.
- An interlude on physical status: I run fast after an allnighter
- RAT: documenting conversations
- RAT: Wherein Mel finally defines, describes, and backs up what the heck the praxis of radical transparency is, sort of.
- RAT: who the heck else is doing RTR stuff?
- RAT: project management mode
- Win Open Access Graduate Student Award, then write, dance, sleep.
- RAT: document now in computerized form, 8 pages and 55 tasks to go
- RAT: I have a draft!
- RAT: More things about qualitative research
- Living Without Sound, response 4
- RAT: feminist research methods
- RAT: Paradigms
- RAT: crap, I'm stalled. gotta unstall.
- RAT: all right, research methods! what's the current state of things post-naptime?
- Surprising reactions to Einhorn's article on composing with hearing loss
- RAT: important task -- food, stretch, and naptime! (brought to you by Burnout Prevention Mel)
- RAT: finally coming to the end of my readings on affordances
- RAT: more affordances stuff -- Gibson the Second, in which I thumb my nose at positivism for the night
- RAT: starting with Gibson, figuring out what the heck affordances are in the context of RTR
- My first dance tech rehearsal: ZOMG THE COLORED LIGHTS THEY THEY THEY are awfully disorienting.
- Design, Cognition, & Learning: an (exhausted) summary for Canek of the Turns et al paper on how porfolios support reflection
- Sleeps now.
- RAT: I found books on affordances! And the gameplan shifts again.
- 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)
- RAT: what's the relationship between RTR and ethnography?
- RAT: starting with exploring methodologies
- RAT: thoughts on the literature I might be looking at
- Readiness Assessment: BEGIN!
- Another long mind-clearing braindump. Unless you want to read about trippy dreams, you can ignore this.
- Three perspectives on teaching design: behaviorist, cognitive, and situative lens
- Frustrationpoint: "assistive services" add inertia to your life. Also, deafness makes me look more introverted than I am.
- How would you teach signal processing to audiology graduate students? I'm doing it spring term, and here are my ideas.
- Designing technology to support reflection
- Living Without Sound, response 3
- Living Without Sound, response 2
- Living Without Sound, response 1
- Living Without Sound: a self-conducted workshop
- My first 24 hours with hip-hop: YES.
- The scholarly paper as jazz fakebook: "With a Little Help From Your Students: A New Model for Faculty Development and Online Course Design"
- Trying to come up with a response to "so, how do you become a successful deaf person?" (I mean, how do you answer that?)
- Reflections on Readiness readiness
- On time millionaireship
- Music and feelings, discipline and Beethoven and rage -- what should I hear?
- Learnable Programming: read it, then turn it around in your own brain.
- Hearing aids: an introduction to DSP in hearing aids -- let's start with the part before it hits the processor
- Design, Cognition, and Learning: responses to my comic, behaviorism isn't evil, and a terrible abuse of Maslow's Hierarchy
- Morning meditation and braindump: impostor syndrome, reunion bonfire, deafness rage, and off we go.
- Getting started with RHIPE (R + Hadoop): installing and testing
- Hearing Aids: effortfulness, or why DNR (digital noise reduction) makes a difference (it's not why you'd think)
- Would anyone be interested in having the core syllabi and annotated bibliographies of the readings of our Engineering Education PhD classes put online?
- I think I've hit my stride.
- 50 years of educational psychology history in a 1-page comic (or: ADHD strikes again)
- Regarding the nature of design problems
- Undoing the head stabilization habit
- So far, Radically Transparent Research has cost $291.98
- 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!
- My research proposal (draft) as a comic book page
- A belated thanks to Hans Sittler
- Design theorists as Zen masters - fingers pointing to the moon
- thoughts after the dance partnering workshop
- R basics: accessing elements of an object
- The thing I appreciate the most about my morning gym and dance classes is that my body is a terrible liar.
- Hearing aids: transducers that make you uncomfortable (aka "zomg it's too loud" -- plus how to fix it with scotch tape)
- Class miniproject topic chosen: Design (process participation) as a "spoonful of sugar" for joining a community
- Think about Universal Design for FOSS community experiences, not just products.
- Design researchers are trying way too hard to be post-positivist.
- On watching Melanie start exploring the parallel potential universes of her future college
- Hearing aids: transducers and resonance (or: your ear is a didgeridoo)
- Research statement draft, aka "my contribution to eating the elephant": radical transparency and discourse exposure during cross-disciplinary course design
- Accessibility and I are still eyeing each other in a wary truce.
- R: for programmers of other languages, and .First
- Hearing aids: transducer tradeoffs
- Hearing aids: intro to transducers (or: what's probably in your ear - electret mics and balanced armature transducers)
- 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)
- 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
- The adventures of a klutzy (yet bold!) Mel in dance company auditions
- 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
- 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
- Meta Be Bold: the theme of publicly performed symbiosis, and the past and (potential) future of the project
- Meta Be Bold: the theme of improvising multitasked physicality
- Meta Be Bold: the theme of buddy boundary work
- Meta Be Bold: A tiny, tiny coding scheme's first draft
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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!
2011
- 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
- Buenos dias. Kumusta ka? Sehr gut, danke.
- How my upcoming talk at Kenyon made me learn beamer and git
- Habits for sanity maintenance
- Reindeer sausage
- Meine Erste Deutsch Blogpost
- 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
- Engineering education learning styles
- Composing a life
- Python for kids, research proposal churning, SIGCSE workshop accepted
- A critique of Koen
- Time to plant trees
- memory palaces, meanderings
- Hey, Informal Learning class -- welcome to open source!
- The Condo Crew
- What is Engineering?
- Cognitive dissonance: welcome to academia
- Habit acquisition: flossing
- Freedom from structure: a dialogue
- Hacking on copyright addendums
- The unexamined life
- An attempt to sort out loneliness
- 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
- Level-up with LIES: OLF talk sneak preview
- 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
- Halp: harness reading speed for awesome
- Tiny bioplastic robots
- Notes inspired by "Understanding by Design"
- 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
- Help Mel sneak out of her statistics class
- 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
- Behind the scenes: a community workshop for Red Hatters
- Brats!
- 70/20/10
- How I thought about grad school
- 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!
- The Source of Enhanced Cognitive Control in Bilinguals: Evidence From Bimodal Bilinguals
- 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
- 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
- What would you want to find out from 1,200 CS professors?
- 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?
- Conservation of Willpower
- s/Pakistan/Purdue
- Upcoming talks and balances
- Omnomnomnomvegannomnom
- FUDCon Tempe Hackfest: Wallpaper
- I've followed your instructions and I still can't bake croissants
- FUDCon Tempe Hackfest: Test cases
- FUDCon Tempe Hackfest: Etherpad
- FUDCon Tempe Hackfest: Fedora Insight
- A whirlwind of FUDCon sessions
- I'm liveblogging FUDCon Tempe hackfests
- 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
- moments of hope
- Gingerly breaking in the new year
2010
- 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
- Mirrors
- Kittens
- Fellow geek feminists: help a sister out?
- Another thing that helps me become myself again...
- Things that help me be myself
- Initial gasps of oxygen
- Pre-sleep thoughts
- Full
- Whatever you are overflowing with will spill out when you are bumped.
- In Manila
- Straining to listen
- Academic shiny
- Brain-clearing on equilibrium
- Potential
- 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
- Open Source Policy Map: suggestions for getting started (student project)
- Dear Lazyweb: headset recommendations?
- Student project: where in the world is open source policy?
- and a glass of cold water, slowly sipped.
- Cooking and adulthood
- Dancing
- Mission
- 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
- Teaching Open Source: a mental model of the TOS community
- Research Day
- Dear Metabrain: choosing an academic name
- 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!
- Heads-up: call for Sugar 0.90 testers will be coming soon
- I'm pretty bad at being tired.
- a splendid torch
- wheeeeeeeeeeeee
- 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)
- Things I would like to do someday
- decompression day
- Putting in a dollar
- Sushi on a train
- CommArch: Now in Portland
- 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
- 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:
- 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
- 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:
- 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
- Got stuff done! Sleeping soon!
- AWESUMXAUR
- It's that last 1.25% that bugs me.
- 2:18am for lack of a better title
- Braindump in order to keep things moving so that I can get stuff done and sleep soon
- Wild dreams of success
- 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 fleiĂźige 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!
- BBQ, or: Why I Missed The Ballad of Buddy Guy
- The ballad of Gui, Jenn, and Buddy Guy
- CFS SoaS update: "All he knows is that he's got to be excited about Sugar on a Stick."
- Geile Zeit translation
- My grandmother's shoes
- Bad Ideas: the instant ramen diet
- 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."
- Know what you don't know.
- Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software
- 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
- Events FAD: Day -1
- 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
2009
- 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: StrauĂźe 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 ä¸ć–‡
- 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
2008
- 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
- Inbox cleaning: 477/763
- Inbox cleaning: 644/763
- 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?
- C. Scott's Journal design ideas talk - posted!
- The hunt for headphones
- Code review tools?
- After lasagna
- Have people in charge of whatever they are
- A stab at writing down my modus operandi
- unstoppableness += 0.000001
- Day in the life (again)
- My god, it's full of scales!
- Mingusmingusmingus
- On why stagnation is unlikely to ever be my problem
- reason #15923 why I love my job
- What I taught myself after work today
- Sword over my head
- If I had a million dollars
- Re: Fedora gots mad skeelz, yo
- Why startup founders don't sleep
- A photo series I would like to see
- Status update
- How do you toot your own horn silently?
- If you give a Mel a stove...
- Day of Awesome
- Why bounties fail
- One of these things is not like the other
- Brainstorming! Brainstorming!
- What can we use for BigBoard connectors?
- Cables cost money.
- Yay for random input!
- And now, good interruptions:
- More powerful than caffeine
- Healthy communities
- A certain kind of isolation
- Burning the midnight oil
- Reactions to Mark Pesce's keynote
- Forging a software development community
- Find Mel (100 points)
- unordered paths and ASL
- Media snips I collided with today
- pianopracticer.py
- Looking for pei pa koa
- How to test for memory leaks
- Bullet point night
- My OLPC weekly report
- Resuming sessions without the proper Activity makes life interesting
- Yawn...
- I now hit things in ensembles
- Upgrade testing for data integrity
- First day at work: XO collaboration testing
- There are more than two types of chords?
- Less butter. Much, much less butter.
- 2 habaneros + 1 serving size = PAIN
- Friends who do cool things
- Morbidity!
- Finances part 4: What to keep how long
- Finances part 3: folders, or: what do I file?
- Food tour of Boston
- Finances part 2: what's tax-deductible?
- Finances part 1: spending categories
- Do I have any superpowers that you'd like to learn?
- New-thing 2 week timer
- In Glenview
- Jason is here
- Old posts part 3
- Old posts part 2
- Old posts part 1
- Out to the cape
- Inertia!
- They made fondue!
- I live on Yavin IV
- Spicy salsa is actually spicy. I like it.
- Moving in: cultural differences
- Stealing some wifi from the neighbors
- Draining brain of excess thought so that I can sleep
- Summer /EOM
- Freeze frames from the last week
- self.take_care_of()
- Mel security vunerabilities announced (again)
- Huh. It's possible to be distracted by your brain going quiet.
- How can we take time out to help people get in?
- Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick
- Apparently I write about People and Things
- Further adventures in learning to speak English
- Recap of Andy-conversation
- Conversations worth driving for
- Hm.
- Did you know you can make clicking noises with your tongue?
- Braindump! Now with old posts!
- Welease Woger!
- Another thing before I go to bed
- Vent
- Chicken scratch
- Leopold & Loeb concert ---> happiness
- All saints day
- Speech therapy!
- I can has brain!
- Brain fibrillation
- I can has musik!
- Small sampling of topics on brain during last 24 hours
- Book meme
- Lunch at the office
- My piano! I missed you.
- Play! Play!
- I have internet again.
- Grassroots bootcamp recap
- Grassroots bootcamp, day 4
- Grassroots bootcamp, day 3
- Grassroots bootcamp, Day 2
- OLPC grassroots bootcamp, Day 1
- lack of communication frustrates me.
- Getting back on Planet Olin
- Too tired to think of a title for this post.
- Mel.status = semi-functional
- Scattered braindump
- Drew: an educator's response to Clay Shirky on cultural expectation of the 'net
- Applying to things is annoying.
- People. They are complicated.
- Happenings in DC and 1cc for the past week
- What are my contributions?
- (more) XO repair guides
- Looking for successors
- Presentations at the Media Lab today
- The ILXOers arrive
- Olin's class of 2008 has gradumacated. (Crusty silly people.)
- English through advertising
- Apply for the OLPC grassroots bootcamp!
- Bugmastering - a first pass
- My first shell script: bundlemaker
- Can it be studied? If you chase it, it slips away.
- Whoa. Pika has a fire alarm!
- It will get worse and it will get better. Keep working.
- Mattresses!
- Money and love... and poi.
- The Mel goes to Washington
- How I celebrated my birthday
- Talking with Andy leads to lack of sleep
- Release when usable
- Braindump: filipino hacker space?
- Mentat Month: Ceasing annoying speech patterns
- How not to get addicted to social networking
- Old versions of familiar ideas
- email-fu: my current system
- Going away to come back
- Happy Nth birthday, mom! (Where N=50.)
- Smoking out logical fallacies
- Site mockups, mentat month, and health books
- Ignorance of limitations is... bliss?
- Writing to get my brain back
- Health Jam aftermath
- Yet Another Internal Monologue
- In Seattle
- prelude: Mel++
- IRC deconstruction: bahasa geek translation
- Various and sundry
- Last day at TOPP
- Trac internal trackbacks (TracBacksPlugin)
- letters, idols, and feedback loops
- After reading about Montessori
- Some things I love tonight
- What do I do in May?
- beginning in open source
- Awww!
- On openness and privacy
- and back into abundance!
- On registration, patience, and the Met
- Braindump in scattered shards
- The calm before the storm
- after playing with grep
- This time last year...
- More notebooks...
- set_trace()
- A letter on Maker House
- Notebook snippets
- INFP!
- Old notebooks: the cleansing
- For the record:
- Life: Update from Tuesday through Saturday night
- Grammaticality
- Installing Trac without root privs
- sprint! sprint!
- Conference talking, talking, talking...
- (Eu)stress
- I can has self esteem? More?
- One way to deal with an email backlog...
- Analog vs. digital fabrication
- The letter I mailed today
- Eh, maybe I'll post something useful to other people tomorrow?
- After 4pm today, I...
- mind.state() == hypersensitive
- On policies and processes
- Testing in context
- Impending transplant to Manhattan
- Goals for this week
- Whoa. I know kung fu.
- Learning to test and otherwise keeping busy
- Small happy moments
- Eat your cat food.
- Who'd like to swap functionalities for a day?
- Pollard's rules of life
- OpenPlans: Week 1
- How do you do electronics tear-downs?
- Note to self: don't move by bus
- My current favorite screenshot
- The dentist song (for Mom)
- Extra screws and headless screens
- I am a text-based ninja.
- XO speakers and interesting parts
- What's special about Olin?
- How do you run an open source company?
- Opening spiel at Speak Africa
- Open source higher ed: more than a bunch of independent studies
- Keyboard is fixed, OLPC Chicago was fun.
- Language and fixing my keyboard
- Got a round tuitt?
- Filipino advertising
- Some fun old pictures
- Be nice to your support staff. They're trying to help.
- If you give an IMSA student an XO...
- In Chicago
- Dual citizenship?
2007
- Upcoming downtime
- Mathematics roundup
- Hi, I'm the new blog.
- A nose by any other name would still smell.
- Backwards balikbayan box
- More incoherence!
- Mass production!
- Lumpia
- Lakwasa
- Oooh, fishies.
- Hofstede cultural dimensions
- Is open source actually open?
- Regarding money...
- Where are my eyebrows?
- Tie an orange ribbon...
- I can has babelfish?
- Di tou si guxiang.
- Why am I blogging?
- Cagayan de Oro
- Ha! productivity!
- Some starting thoughts on SparkEs
- Tiny roadblocks
- Market day & visiting grandfather
- ARTHRITIS: The Conquest! or: I miss libraries
- the day before Taipei
- The best thing for being sad is to learn something
- Manila, II
- In Manila
- Explaining a tracheotomy to young children
- Sherlock Holmes for engineers
- Other people being funny
- 20 guiding principles of computing
- Flying and gloves
- fdisk /dev/life
- Degrees don't limit you.
- Online and offline laptop usage
- Moment of silence
- pulling an Erdos
- A dialogue with my body
- Glenview is ridiculous.
- Back online and not looking forward to it
- Steal, drink, lie, and cheat: skills for a happy life
- Is this the real life, is this just fantasy
- Free textbooks - different philosophies
- The past 24 hours have been - interesting.
- The best thing for being sad is to learn something
- Thumbs up, thumbs down.
- Cam: fishing for better prices with mobile phones
- Jamendo rocks (no pun intended)
- The Tale of the Scipline Islands
- Learning parables
- Why you should or should not go to $schoolname
- Stuff I've enjoyed reading in the past 48 hours
- Laura's on Worldchanging!
- Stigmergy: why engineering educators reinvent the wheel?
- mel.unstable.0.3.1.tgz
- This will probably be one of the last posts on this blog
- Announcing the Summer of Content
- The quest for plane tickets + recipe for Tim Neng
- Computing thinking
- It's official.
- Things I never thought I'd appreciate
- Up on the roof
- Powering on!
- Learning about PGP and microformats
- Endless summer, or: with a single click, you can sponsor an OLPC Education Jam in the Philippines
- 4th of July: "Boating" "on the Charles"
- Standardization vs specialization
- Money is like chocolate.
- I miss creative writing.
- Wei wu wei
- Back from Vancouver and Seattle! And boy am I full.
- This book is not required
- Beer and an unrelated note about social entrepreneurship
- Visiting the Zen center
- Game Jam pictures, finally
- Entrepreneurship without a business
- Books vs mobility
- A salute to the grounded
- The Jam is Over.
- Game Jam, Day 2
- Game Jam, Day 1
- Olin students are slackers.
- Obligatory my-little-brother-graduated-from-high-school post
- The question is will it get done, not who is doing it
- Why now?
- Toothbuds and commercialist zen
- Finally looked at my transcript.
- Mel Chua, college graduate... and furniture mover.
- Design Squad @ Continuum (belated)
- ECS tutorials follow me into my sleep.
- In Chicago, and glory do I have a communications backlog.
- Justice or mercy?
- The exponential decay of attachment
- Suite dinner
- Ondelettes are adorable.
- Glory be, I can write about education again!
- So I turned 21...
- Another milestone?
- Graduation speech: Pass it on
- Voice rec keyboard
- Short update
- Public Service Academy and We Have No Water Again Again
- I should be an Engineering:Education major.
- Something I never expected to happen
- Design as enlightenment
- News flash: we're not innovative.
- Summer job to encourage Olin staff innovation, bikes and financial planning
- Rules of Meta
- Parents on unschooling
- Cultural effects on self directed learning
- Learning how to practice music
- On unschooling
- A request for designers
- Grouped tightly for your scheduling convenience
- Carrot on a stick
- Biology, the blockbuster
- Stepping outside the story you live in
- Kernel dump
- History of grading
- Corollary to "all models are broken"
- It doesn't matter where you're going as long as you know where you are
- Results of the artistic streak
- They won't tell me what to do
- Rice and salt in paper packets
- An unexpected homecoming
- We should be making beautiful things
- Ok, I'm done.
- Jealousy
- Why I won't be earning money this summer
- Boxes and arrows
- Competencies comments
- How I get my brain to sit still sometimes
- Further discoveries of why I need to work in education
- My name totally works out.
- Polyglot content on the OLPC
- [root@mel ~]#
- Mel learns to meditate (or tries)
- Where by "artifact" I mean "engineering toys."
- In lieu of whining
- Help me figure out an algorithm?
- What's your frequency?
- Academic freedom and political correctness
- Vive la resistance
- Let's talk about plasmids
- The shower-curtain and Coanda effects, and velcro and randomness
- Redefinitions that I'm fond of
- Summer plans - the unedited version
- How to install a Textpattern website on Dreamhost
- Food from the Philippines
- An unexpected vacation
- Bill Buxton on design sketching
- In the moments before I come clawing back up for air
- Gender and negotiations
- Buddhism == Brian Bingham
- Sign through your cell phone
- Trying too hard to be something?
- Herbert Hoover on engineering
- Immersion in the anthro world
- So am I an engineer... or what?
- Back in the U.S. of A
- What it looks like to hear like Mel
- Hearing aids that don't amplify
- Talk about the world exploding.
- Guinea Pigs Learn Better
- Worksheets as a math teaching method
- SigSys, piano style
- What are signals and systems?
- Why are you here?
- My new voicemail message
- Letters from the other side of Mel
- Ambient information as a replacement for classrooms
- Tipping points for the online autodidact
- The flesh is willing but the spirit is a total pushover
- Long-distance triage: sometimes it's good stuff.
- Another short eclectic reading list
- Clothes shopping: the aftermath
2006
- My Christmas present: clothing
- Constraints
- Back in Chicago.
- A web design newbie's reading survey
- The winter break to-do list
- ConnVex
- Posts from last year
- Thinkers and doers and the OLPC
- Other people's expectations
- Craziness: the antidote to boredom
- Wise fools
- Call for procedure for attaining maturity
- The original competencies paper
- The Olin Curriculum: Thinking Towards The Future
- Artist's statements
- Amusing fact collection
- Hackstar 2.0 : not just white males?
- Seely Brown on passion-based learning
- If you want something done, ask the busiest person you know.
- Idea clusters and ice crystals
- Hackable == green
- Geek moment #0x3c52ab9
- Live the questions now
- You might be a future grad student if...
- Blinky lights
- Hair and sun
- Back to IMSA
- The babies! They are everywhere!
- Random Acts of Engineering
- Ooh, a memory dump.
- Learning journals and peer commentary
- The Prodigy Point
- PBL doesn't work?
- Hurtling towards the void
- Overloaders Anonymous
- The future of transformational learning
- President's Council dinner
- Have you thanked your teachers today?
- Chicken Feet
- A thank you to my teachers
- Building Olin, the interlude
- Patents for good, patents for evil: the Blackboard case
- Generation of Greatness
- Spiral learning: it's like your toes.
- MacArthur foundation and Digital Learning
- The Olin timesaving roundup, version 1.0
- President Miller on creating a new paradigm
- Captioned videos online!
- Those who teach, can.
- Villanelle for our time
- Launchy
- Minimalism vs Fullfeaturism
- The Tipping Point
- Braindump. Carry on.
- Of course we're typical college students.
- The art of learning how to meet productively
- Barcamp: Drupal tutorial
- Barcamp, Day 1
- Howdy from Barcamp
- Running noses and PDAs
- Audio processing and accessibilty design for the deaf
- BAHBC days 8-10 and the Mobile Ergonomics challenge
- Ego begone.
- Oh, my feet.
- Why colleges are so hard to change
- Math... and SCOPE! (factorial)
- Braindump
- Wearable Captioning Device: a 6th grade project turned real
- Mel on personal finance (you may laugh now)
- Blueberries yes, voting no.
- "I'm not asking you, I'm telling you."
- BAHBC: Days 4-7
- Lifehacker: tips for off-screen reading
- BAHBC: Day 3
- Book review: Self Renewal
- BAHBC: Day 2
- BAHBC: Day 1
- Plan for the next 10 days
- Back at home with Mom's Macbook
- Crenshaw melons
- Muse - my first concert
- Mel goes to Stanford
- Wikimania bloggers needed - citizen journalists unite!
- Not quite on earth
- Oh frabjous day!
- Too many topics to count
- Realizations of the week
- The making of a student
- Backstage in the kitchen
- Summer = explosion of energy
- begin(decompression);
- Reflections on finals week
- Old-school Chinese marriage restrictions
- Mom & me
- Post-Olin options
- The Gift
- Inter-class rifts & apathy: last year's take
- Project idea: Electric-acoustic travel guitar
- Buying in without selling out
- Home for a reunion
- Why is engineering uncool?
- Things I learned today
- Classroom bug reports: asking for help productively
- On the future of libraries
- Information Design: engineering datastreams
- How to cultivate an uberstudent population
- How to cultivate an uberstudent population
- The world is too much with us
- Musical phrases of happiness
- Design team dynamics
- 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
- 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
- Must... optimize... life!
- The well-balanced geek
- A little experiment with wording
- Jet lag and the revelations of solitary
- Home again
- Life in the Philippines 3: I miss vegetables
- Life in the Philippines 2: faith, food, and GK
2005
- Happy New Year!
- Report from the Philippines, week 1
- 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
- Ron Jeffries on Passion
- Information Design - a new discipline?
- Wait, I don't have to be an ECE?
- Laptops out, family in, schedule almost set
- Asking good questions, nocturnality, tradition, and in memoriam
- On the future of libraries
- 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
- Costuming
- Wow, my brain is so broken.
- Parents' Day Orphan
- Yee Frickin' Haw.
- Sudafed is great!
- My throat hurts.
- New books!
- Me + Lectures = Incomprehension
- Freezing rain
- Ah, academia.
- Drop one thing
- Sit down and shut up
- Winter productivity
2004
- The Blog, She is Up