November 23, 2024

spencergreenhalgh.com posts digest for Nov 22 2024

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Here are long-form blog posts I published this week:

• setting up an iOS image posting POSSE workflow for Hugo

• personal and theological reflections after a minor bike wreck

Here are microblog posts that I published this week:

• I expected Naomi Alderman’s The Future to be good, but I didn’t expect an interesting, responsible reading of the destruction of Sodom to be a throughline of the story.

• This morning, I’m realizing (and somewhat to my horror) that some of my reflection on whether to change up one of my classes essentially mirrors the ed psych debates about constructivism versus direct instruction that I found so intolerable in grad school.

• Kiddo, putting away laundry: “My sweater! Come feel its soft wrath!”—

• Kiddo, covering up one of the tines on a fork: “Look, now it’s a threek!”

• Finally trying Bigelow’s “Constant Comment” after several months of meaning to. So far, it ranks pretty high on my list of non-desserty teas.

• Rather than feel dumb for losing control of my bike taking a turn too fast, I am choosing to focus on the wreck’s superficial similarity to the Akira slide.

• Between my kid’s nascent interest in search engines and my students’ using generative AI despite my discouraging it, I’m thinking a lot this week about directly teaching epistemology as a foundation for other concepts.

• Glad I already have tenure or else I’d be a lot more worried about what my colleagues think of me holding my numb fingers under running water in the break room, still dressed in four layers of warm and reflective clothing and before I’ve had a chance to fix my helmet hair.

Here are photos that I published this week (or at least their descriptions):

• It’s been messy, but pretty sure I’ve finally figured out how to post images to my website (and from there to social media) from my phone.

• Love me a creative rickroll, so I’m glad my brother sent me this right after I got my image posting workflow working.

• Currently feeling some Chidi Anagonye levels of nihilism about grading.

• Love these digs at Twitter in the Kickstarter video for Mike Masnick’s new card game.

• Have people ever used Snopes as a verb, à la Google? Or is this just the best throwaway detail in a science fiction short story ever?

• I love having a co-author who can provide the theoretical framing to turn my weird data from a dark corner of the internet into an interesting argument.

Here are news articles and podcasts I commented on this week:

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on '[Article] – Alex'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'In France, a family reckons with World War II Allies' legacy of rape and murder'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Trump’s Historically Small Victory'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'The thing about the Kobayashi Maru'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash'

• 🔗 linkblog: my thoughts on 'I’m a Good, Normal Family Man Who Just Wants to Inspect Your Genitals Before You Pee'

Here are my reviews of books and other media I consumed this week:

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for How Comics Were Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page, by Glenn Fleishman

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️🖤🖤 for Batman: Failsafe, by Chip Zdarsky

• 📺 tvblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for The Diplomat (Season 2)

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, by CRC Payne

• 📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ for The Future, by Naomi Alderman

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Spencer