Eight years ago today, I attended an Edward Tufte workshop in Atlanta. I left questioning so many assumptions about how designers present information and how people process data. It was one of the driving forces behind my return to grad school.
My son’s middle school has been sending an email, a text message and a pre-recorded phone call every Sunday night at 6:30. Thankfully, the principal just mentioned in the email that she’s not going to do the phone call anymore after talking to parents. There is such a thing as over communicating.
The start of another season. Ryan had some really nice saves today. 🥍
Nicknaming places
Does your family give places random nicknames? Mine does…
If you don’t value government, everything looks like waste.
Long day ahead of me, but the weekend is on the other side.
Nine years ago, I wasn't in a mass shooting
Nine years ago today, a family outing to a mall turned chaotic when a false alarm about a shooting caused a stampede, leading to lasting fear and memories.
It’s been a long week, y’all.
They are about to start work on the riverfront trails near my house, eventually connecting to 27 miles of riverfront trails. They’ve been trying to make this happen for as long as I can remember. Would be fun to ride a bike from the suburbs along the river to downtown Columbia.
AI and Design: It’s what you make of it.
In a lecture at the University of South Carolina, NC State’s Helen Armstrong emphasized the importance of designers learning to use AI as a tool, collaborating with data scientists, and overcoming student anxieties about AI’s impact on the design profession.
Long day ahead of me today. A couple of important meetings, a 3-hour grad seminar, more meetings… and then if I have the energy, I’m going to try to go to a talk on campus about AI and art.
I’m taking an asynchronous class on survey development. The professor’s comments on assignments are constructive and helpful, but her grading rubric is massively complex. We’re talking fractional points with varying weights. I’ve been a grad student for a really long time and I’ve never seen a grading scale this complicated. I’ve read over my last assignment several times and I can’t figure out for the life of me how I got an A.
I’ve pretty much stopped posting to Instagram. I have issues with Meta, but that wasn’t the driving factor. In fact, it wasn’t really an intentional shift… I just stopped enjoying Instagram. Now I’m posting images to Micro.Blog and cross posting to Bluesky and Threads.
Shots from last night at Craft and Draft in Irmo. Lizzy was very entertained by, well, everything.
It’s easier to destroy than to govern.
Proud of Jilly. Honorable mention in the district science fair.
The senior citizens in the doctor’s office waiting room are talking non-stop. So many personal details being screamed out across a whole room of strangers.
I love Iconfactory’s Tapestry – a unified timeline for my iPhone
Tapestry is a new iOS app that functions as a unified feed reader, allowing users to integrate various social and RSS feeds without algorithms, while providing customization options for managing content visibility.
It’s almost time for the college baseball season to start. Beautiful day at Founders Park.
My 17-year-old daughter wanted to listen to her new “Oldies” playlist on the way to school. First song: U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” Yep, the “Oldies” playlist is an 80s and 90s playlist.
Sigh.
She’s not wrong, but I feel so ancient this morning.