Month: January 2018
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My Relationship with my iPhone
My Smartphone History Smartphones ascended to being an indispensable tool that most people owned as I was in high school. After a few feature phones, I considered myself privileged enough to get my first one in 2010, an HTC Incredible. The primary appeal for me at first was not apps (though they were exciting and […]
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My Journey to the Mac
I don’t remember when I first started using computers, but I know from my family it was before I could read. I eventually had “my” computer, which was the hand-me-down from the family computer. Out of these desktops, there was a WIndows 95, 98, and an XP. I had total reign over them, which usually […]
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RSS in 2018
At the end of 2017 I decided to try using RSS for news. Previously I’d check Facebook and Twitter’s trending topics, and I followed a number of news accounts (whose biases in coverage aligned with my own). The bigger impetus for this was that I was on Twitter a lot less and was sick of […]
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Using Sibelius on a Laptop
In my opinion, Sibelius has some decent and intuitive keyboard shortcuts on a full keyboard, with its heavy emphasis around the numpad. However, I find it to be essentially unusable on a Macbook Pro which lacks the numpad. It has a “notebook” shortcut set, but I find that to be just as unusable, and far from […]
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Coffee Setup & My Coffee Story
I started college not drinking coffee and graduated a coffee nut. I roast, grind, and brew my own coffee. Daily Brew I use a Technivorm Moccamaster Grand (15-cup or 60 fl oz) for my daily brew. I weigh out 108g of my beans the night before into my Baratza Encore and fill up the water reservoir […]
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My Tech Set-up
Here’s a quick break down of what I’m running to do what I do. Technology is an incredibly important part of what anyone in any field is doing, and education is no exception. It’s worth laying out what I use as an entire field before getting into any specific details in future posts. This is […]
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Fresh Start
I’m making this site as a means of sharing the materials I’ve created that others might find useful, and as a means for discussing things important to me. I’m enjoying learning the ins and outs of WordPress, and am currently hosting the site through WordPress.com (as the bottom of the page suggests). In the future […]
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