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Professional computer geek and linguist living in Germany, doing infosec stuff and being the freakiest mother ever.
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Tag Archives: Purdue
The long reach of advertising…
When I was teaching at Purdue, I was always annoyed by advertisers who’d write stuff on my chalkboard with a big “Do Not Erase!” (DNE) next to it. Sometimes half of one of the two chalkboards was covered with book … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, corporate bullshit, humor, media, Purdue, students, teaching
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This is not the post you’re looking for. (Sorry, George Lucas…)
Life, as you know, rarely works out as planned. The day of my last post, a lot of big stuff was in the works for me. Most of it still is, but on the day of my last post, at … Continue reading
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Tagged Denver, Life, Los Angeles, Purdue, research, teaching
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So I haven’t posted for a while…
Yeah, yeah, bad me. I haven’t posted in weeks, and I refuse to feel guilty about it. I’ve been überbusy, and there are Big Things ™ in the works. You know, life, the future, everything. Big Things ™. I went … Continue reading
In case you’re wondering how divided this country is…
So about a month ago, I was here at the Indianapolis airport, flying to Denver via Detroit. I was working with the LaptopOfDoom ™, which is covered with a variety of stickers, the most important of which say “This is … Continue reading
Whew!
Just got back from meeting my advisor, and had a great talk with her. It was so worth the trip out here. When you’re working remotely, sometimes it’s really hard to be sure how you’re progressing; after a nice long … Continue reading
Cracking away in the Land of Corn…
Being back at Purdue is always pretty surreal. Every time I come here, I subconsciously seem to utter “returning to the scene of the crime, eh?” – lots of the best things in my life have happened here (including The … Continue reading
Synthesis
So Wednesdays (or early Thursdays, depending on how the week has gone, I guess) are when I send off my weekly progress reports to my advisor. I’ve been doing a lot of background reading the past couple of weeks, and … Continue reading
My lovely former students
This picture looks better when viewed at a larger size than this, but when I was at Purdue last week, I met with two of my former students from the American Culture class I taught at the Purdue Village ESOL … Continue reading
