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Nostalgia

Happy Father’s Day

June 20, 2010

Dad, thanks for taking me snowshoeing, fishing, camping, boating, shooting, skiing, X-country skiing, hiking, swimming and biking. Thanks for insisting on educational summer vacations, for teaching me how to change the oil in my car, for showing me how to use power tools. Thanks for always showing up, no matter what.

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Interviews with a couple Google Engineers

May 7, 2010

I was cleaning out old files from Google Docs and came across these two interviews I did with a couple Google engineers for NCWIT in 2008, just before I left Google. Portraits by Jason of course. The two things I remember vividly about the experience: 1) we had to sneak Jason’s photo equipment into the [...]

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Unsexy but Useful: American Heritage Dictionary iPhone App

April 9, 2010

This spring, it will be 10 years since I graduated from grad school. With all of the hoopla around the iPad, iPhone apps, Google Books and ubiquitous instantaneous information access in general, I keep imagining what it would be like to be  a grad student in English now. Back in 2000, I was thrilled to [...]

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In honor of the iPad launch

April 1, 2010

This has been around a while I’m told, but it’s still funny. A good reminder that books were once, at one point, new technology (via DRS).

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