Sarah is a Presidential Innovation Fellow!

Look for Sarah‘s bio here, under Open Data Initiatives: Meet the Round 2 Presidential Innovation Fellows! Welcome to our next class of Presidential Innovation Fellows! Amazing innovators, answering the call to serve http://t.co/MFxK6jMWBQ — Todd Park (@todd_park) June 24, 2013 We’re so excited for her! She’ll be working on the Smithsonian Open Data project, bringing… Continue reading Sarah is a Presidential Innovation Fellow!

Home!

I’m home! I’m very very very happy to be back =D My mom and brother drove me back to my sf apartment from the airport. I’m super grateful, since I brought home a bunch of stuff (including a very Dutch bag for my bicycle from Hema!), and my bags were heavy. Stroopwafels have been a… Continue reading Home!

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crunch time

Ally and I ate a lot of falafel on Leidseplein last night at this awesome salad bar, then barhopped all night. I really love this area just south of Leidseplein. And it was an accident–we had found a cheap Best Western here. I’m pretty behind on blogging! The livenation.nl website didn’t take american credit cards,… Continue reading crunch time

Bicycle

Rented this at: Amsterdamse Fietswinkel Postjesweg 106bg 1057 EG Amsterdam, Netherlands 020 7371185 amsterdamsefietswinkel.nl‎ (and on g+ haha) =D

This library is beautiful

I had a totally uneventful flight (hooray!). I watched Life of Pi (Ang Lee! Also I loved the book when I devoured it, years ago, wrapped in bed and wracked with doubt, adrift in my own sea of turmoil) and then, immediately, Les Mis, which is such a stupid story I could barely stand it.… Continue reading This library is beautiful

Enroute to Amsterdam!

Here I am, in Houston! One day I will sit down and figure out a process of getting pictures from my phone onto Something That Is Convenient For Display On Mah Blaugh and then I will be able to easily post this picture I just took of a bronze statue of George HW Bush in… Continue reading Enroute to Amsterdam!

Women Techmakers at Google I/O – May 15, 2013

Raw notes below! Will edit later! Susan Wojcicki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Wojcicki Insights: often one sentence, but it’s very powerful Youtube: user-generated content 1.56 billion dollars – from that little insight, you make a really big decision Near and dear to my heart: ads Insight’s very basic: ads are information. Anna Patterson VP Engineering F15E – like the… Continue reading Women Techmakers at Google I/O – May 15, 2013

Beowulf!

Kenton, Jade, Asheesh, maiki, and Sarah all met each other! There was OpenHatch + Railsbridge/Bridge Foundry strategerizing! Jade played fantaisie impromptu and vienna Teng! Two MIT puzzle hunt puzzles by Seth: http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/2012/puzzles/betsy_johnson/slash_fiction/ http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/2012/puzzles/into_the_woodstock/sounds_good_to_me/ emscripten nacl native client Sodium chloride ha ha ha Google pushing it The tyranny of somethinglessness Otherwise: on thurs there was a… Continue reading Beowulf!

“Communication in multiplayer gaming: Examining player responses to gender cues”

Researchers at Ohio University conducted a study on reactions to gendered voices in Halo 3. The same recordings (of generic things like “thanks for the game”) were played in the lobby and after matches. https://vgresearcher.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/reactions-to-a-womans-voice-in-an-fps-game-kuznekoff-rose-in-press/ via r/girlgamers link to abstract of study: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/09/12/1461444812458271 I like that they also compared performance and found that the female… Continue reading “Communication in multiplayer gaming: Examining player responses to gender cues”

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