Category: (A)Musing

One of the reasons I've been sharing my recipes is because one of the "antidotes" to cultural appropriation is "find you own culture." ** Well, this is mine. The two formative cooks for me (my grandmother and my dad) never shied away from canned vegetables, margarine, and starches. They knew how to stretch a meal,… Continue reading Recipes and Culture

I'm seeing this pervasive strain of discussion lately that basically boils down to "ahhh, now this is the internet I remember!" And as someone who is old enough to remember that internet and have participated in it, I find it frustrating. This tendency to look back with impenetrable nostalgia sells short not only the thing… Continue reading Twitter, Mastodon, and Nostalgia

Surreal this morning. Only a couple of windows in our building were broken, one at Dahl and one at Sushi Train. They’ve both already been boarded and cleaned up. I’m surprised they didn’t board up all of them in case it happens again tonight. I find myself noticing really little things, like that there’s a… Continue reading The Day After

I’m trying to brainstorm all the things I know about good online meetings now that a bunch of folks are having them who aren’t used to them. (Editing as I think of things.) A note: my company has a culture of using voice-only conference calls. If you use video as well, some of these may… Continue reading On Virtual Meetings

Okay, so gifted students and intuition, and why taking an introductory math class made me think of these things. (You, uh, might want to grab something to drink; this is likely to be long.) When I first started at the bank, my job was to figure out why there was a difference between what an… Continue reading Gifted Students and Trying Math Again