Comments for Journey vs. Destination

Comment on Embedded systems podcast? by Elecia

Elecia — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:07:17 +0000

Thanks for dropping by. Jen and I have been discussing it further and we’re sorting out the details. If you’ve got ideas about what you’d want to hear, let us know.

Some other segments I’ve been pondering: “Beginner learns X” where we talk a beginner through different things, letting them fail a little, helping them through the tough spots. Already, though, I can think about next April Fools where “Beginner learns where the fire extinguisher is”. Oh, maybe we could do that for Fourth of July because I can’t wait to blow up some capacitors.

Comment on Embedded systems podcast? by Christopher Svec

Christopher Svec — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:28:45 +0000

Go for it!

I’d love to listen to any of those topics!

And I’m happy to not care about theme music, edited audio, or good mics – just put something out there and see what happens!

I enjoyed your book, and now I’m looking forward to your podcast!

Comment on Methode Champenoise by Kara

Kara — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:28:11 +0000

I like your twitter feed. I find it witty.

Comment on Hosting for the socially inept by Catherine

Catherine — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 23:04:02 +0000

Great blog – I stumbled on it and enjoyed reading it. I’m one of the party wallflowers too but I didn’t realize you were (I was in your class at HMC). Sometimes at parties nobody talks to the wallflowers. Once at a party I was at, many extraverts came by and talked to the wallflowers for a few minutes and moved on – seems like at parties the extraverts will talk to the wallflowers and the introverts are the wallflowers.

Comment on Where do ideas come from? And where do they go from here? by » Meeting obstacles with resiliency Journey vs. Destination

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Comment on Lullaby and good night by Kristin Anderson

Kristin Anderson — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:50:46 +0000

Great post! I’ll have to try some of these. One of my “spells” is to count to 10 (that 10 number again) but I have to trace the number in my mind as I count it. Attempts to keep me from thinking about other things.

Comment on What is it like to program? by elecia

elecia — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:11:42 +0000

Found a link that describes software development in different ways:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/how-can-you-help-non-programmers-understand-the-development-process/

Comment on Things you don’t pay me to do by Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:55:18 +0000

Sadly, most people are not savvy enough to understand that running your brain at 100% is not going to be good in the long run. And those folks who are in the office from 8 am to 8 pm are most likely doing crap work — repeatedly. I think it’s even worse for software folks — “you were here all day and the UI/output/etc looks exactly the same.”. “yes, but now it does it in half the time and the battery life is now twice as long.” “well, we need to *see* progress.” So sad.

Comment on What does a second grader know anyway? by Emma

Emma — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 04:24:06 +0000

Waowza! Thanks for the thoughtful list. T is currently very much enjoying the Graveyard Book. It’s right up his street. A has been pouring over Percy Jackson, and anything Riordan. Did you know Heinlein wrote children’s fiction?
Bailey- the boys always grab comic books at the library, and my knee jerk response has been anti comic. I should stop and look a bit more closely, because one of them found Beowulf in comic form recently!

Comment on What does a second grader know anyway? by Bailey S.

Bailey S. — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:06:37 +0000

As a person who read everything I could get my hands on as a kid, the best thing is really to just let them loose in the library. Every now and again they’ll come across something they’re not ready for, but the beauty in that is that they learn to recognize it and move on without feeling sheltered nor traumatized.

Also, graphic novels like Maus or plain old comic books are a great way to go. They usually have a larger set of vocabulary than kid novels and the pictures really don’t hurt. I like all of the historical or documentary-style books coming out in this genre lately.

Some of my favorite books as a kid were Mouse and the Motorcycle, Homer Price, Rats of NIMH series, Boxcar Children, and the Asimov and Ray Bradbury short story collections.