It’s on Youtube.
Asides
It is hard to account for the delight I continue to experience revisiting a single moment from a football (soccer) game, but yet this moment when a young Aston Villa fan flips off the full back for Crystal Palace does just that. I think it must be the cherubimesque face of the boy and his complete commitment to the flipping off with both hands that reflects his outrage at being waved at by an opposing player. It happened in the blink of an eye, but someone somewhere captured the moment. Despite it being a TikTok of a phone recording of a television screen, I am grateful.
Somehow I am now on the mailing list of an organization which did not think enough of my work to give me a grant but they are happy to tell me about all the other work they are doing. On a weekly basis. Sigh.
Amy Cavender does not appear to have updated her website for a few months, but it remains a delightful resource of both teaching data analysis as well as automations meant to make a teacher’s life easier.
This is already happening I am sure across a variety of platforms and models, but this GitHub repo makes it possible to do from the comfort of your own Python.
Eat the frog simply means do the hard thing, the thing you don’t want to do, the thing which is probably really important and thus makes you anxious, first.
Technology is much less about the large machines of Heidegger’s day and much more about the smaller machines that permeate our daily lives. They feel personal but they are not, which perhaps goes some way to explain the rise of “making” and its almost cult-like status.