Monthly Archives: April 2009

A conversation with old friends

By david.humphrey | Published: April 30, 2009
Tonight, after I got the girls off to bed, I was reading some things online.  At one point I stumbled upon an interesting twitter feed, not least because the author was quoting Derrida: “To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.” I’ve always liked this quotation, and I paused to think [...]
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Bad timing!

By david.humphrey | Published: April 30, 2009
Just got home and the girls yell with delight, “we got mail!”  Their Click magazine for kids arrived, with a very timely cover.  I’d love to be at the editors meeting next month!
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Halting

By david.humphrey | Published: April 28, 2009
Tonight Luke is pausing to enjoy one of his favourite things, a long sentence that is its own kind of narrative.  I can appreciate what he enjoys about them, but I’m as different as you can get in this regard.  I like short sentences.  Not ‘writing that only uses short sentences.’  I’m talking about well [...]
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Two lessons before bed

By david.humphrey | Published: April 28, 2009
These two little girls of ours stop me dead in my tracks just about every day.  Tonight, as we went for a walk after dinner, and they pleaded with me to give them “challenges,” to see if they could run faster than me, my youngest turned to me and said: “Dad, I’m not sure I can [...]
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I wonder who will get tired first…

By david.humphrey | Published: April 27, 2009
“Dad, can your computer guess ‘heads’ or ‘tails’ when I flip this coin?” “Sure, give me a second” #!/bin/sh voice=Zarvox coin=$RANDOM let "coin %= 2" if [ "$coin" -eq 0 ] then say -v $voice heads else say -v $voice tails fi I haven’t seen my Mac since.
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Another one in the can

By david.humphrey | Published: April 25, 2009
Yesterday was the last day for another group of students in our Seneca Mozilla courses, and today I’m marking all this awesome work (and blogging about it in order find productive outlets for my procrastination!).  Surman came up for the afternoon to watch final presentations, along with some folks from Red Hat Toronto, and OCE.  [...]
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Just a note that I’m looking forward to your projects…

By david.humphrey | Published: April 22, 2009
Yeah, I still have that nightmare too. But it doesn’t change that your stuff is due Friday
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Straight to the source

By david.humphrey | Published: April 22, 2009
I don’t use an rss aggregator to read all the blogs I follow (some of them are planets, so clearly I do a bit…).  I don’t like them for a number of reasons, and here’s one more: Me – “Did you see that video that I posted yesterday?” Wife – “No, I thought that post seemed strange [...]
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Quick glance

By david.humphrey | Published: April 22, 2009
You read lots of people talking about how to write for the web, that people scan and search vs. linger and pause. People don’t work through content in a linear fashion. Furthermore, people parachute into your page from 20,000 ft, and run off into the bush as soon as they land. People [...]
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What it’s like to have daughters

By david.humphrey | Published: April 20, 2009
“Dad, can we go out and run in the rain?” “Dad, can we go and get wet in our clothes?” Yes, yes you can.
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