I stopped teaching games classes a long time ago, haven’t been in the loop that these things are still going on. Good reminders, though, as I’ve returned to the classroom this fall www.theverge.com

Gamergate comes to the classroom

Great article explaining Google’s BS about privacy and tracking freedom-to-tinker.com

Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection

Assembling the Glorious keyboard. I put the 14 switches from the sample pack on F1-F8 and 1-6… we’ll see how they all feel.

Hey friends, my daughter pointed me at this lovely movie project on Kickstarter and hopes more people would support it! Check it out.

“SAYŌNARA - A poetic and traditional Japan” www.kickstarter.com/projects/…

Latest random useful pointer from Morning Brew, the “A Soft Murmur” website, which lets you play a mix of “ambient sounds to wash away distraction” asoftmurmur.com

Achievement unlocked. Nerd level++

Modular mechanical keyboard arrived, with a set of switches (“best guess”) and a sample pack of all the types so I can see if I want to change things up.

www.pcgamingrace.com/products/… (with aura keycaps)

If you’re curious what using Android (green) does to your privacy (blue), @samsung created this helpful gif. Thanks Samsung.

As we design a set of rooms to run a large event in @ByHubs, I am reminded again why #WebXR needs immersive navigation.

If we believe the Web can be the Metaverse, we need to be able to bounce between spaces without popping back to 2D. Even if only for same-origin transitions

Now that I’m going back into GT a few days week, its Soylent for lunch more often! I just ran out, but thankfully a new shipment arrived.

As they say in The Matrix, “Everything the body needs”

Today on zoom, the combo of my DLSR-for-webcam and the “slight change” to my hair color looked pretty good, I think. (Bonus: I taught the first class of my fall Computer Graphics class today)

let the craziness begin. I’m still mostly on leave at GT so won’t be on-campus very much. I’m thinking about holding an office hour each week in hubs. Here you see two screens shared into a hubs room (one, a web page on my desktop; one the screen of my ipad running OneNote)

I’ve yet to run into a +60 yr old in Overwatch, but do occasionally find a +50 like me. Mostly “the kids” are amused to know my Dad76 tag is because I’m a dad with kids old enough to like the meme that inspired the tag. melmagazine.com/en-us/sto…

I’m enjoying the Morning Brew mailing list; quick hits on money, business and the world, mixed with some humor. Top was amusing today. join here

Headline should be “Alaska gov relents on destroying university system, imposing only draconian cuts.” Quite the slight of hand, by “relenting” he achieved cuts that would have made headlines on their own.

Made another batch of coconut-milk based strawberry ice cream, this time I decided to actually go the route of heating the milk + sugar, and then tempering 4 egg yokes into it. OMG, so good.

Teaching Intro to Computer Graphics at @georgiatech starting next week, so I thought it would be appropriate to make my hair look synthetically rendered

My son pointed me at the Glorious PC Gaming Race mice and keyboards. I’m very much enjoying the mice (cheaper than other high end gaming mice, good feel, clean design); keyboard backordered. www.pcgamingrace.com/products/…

First day of school for the kids, my son is starting high school, so we’ve decided to retire the middle-school lunchbox. Rest in peace, old friend

Mom: how old was the yoga instructor? G: old. He looked like dad, but thin. 🤨

Ah, the irony. I’m starting up more research on how to support remote attendance at professional meetings, and my school is having a “retreat” (aka day-long faculty meeting) some god-awful distance outside the city (for no good reason). Yay, more carbon into the air!

Got an email summarizing the various ways the our family’s healthcare will be worse and more expensive next year.

Of course, they may as well attach a laughing Pepe face giving us the finger, since it’s not like there is the option to say no.

The US healthcare system sucks.

I started pushing my micro.blog through to FB Page. I have ~30 FB friends but have had hundreds in the past. FB should have tons of data to suggest friends, but are just suggesting dozens of ppl I don’t know (friends of those 30). They’re trying too hard to be non-creepy I think

Damn shame I already had my mid-life crisis. apple.news/Aq6YTV3r2…

OMG, GaTtech continues its quest to maximize the annoyance of using web-based systems. Excessive 2FA verification requests weren’t sufficient, so now moving more systems to on-campus/VPN-only.

What’s next? Only use sites from secure workstations in designated locked offices?

Lots of chatter about Ninja hitting 1mil subs on @WatchMixer. Tried streaming to it from W10 and OBS last weekend; streams were garbled both ways. Perhaps it can’t handle low bit rates (@Twitch works fine)

Seems not ready for prime time, whatever the reason