This post is a response to my friend Kate Mitchell’s recent thoughtful blog post on human-computer interaction. She wrote from the perspective of a computer scientist, and my response is from that of a user experience designer.
I hear a lot of pe…

You have until 8:00 pm to vote, so don’t miss it! Some resources I used when making my decisions are SmartVoter.org, DailyKOS, and the Union Tribune. I’m a nonpartisan, so I got to choose what ballet I wanted. I selected a Democratic ballet. If you have a different ballet, then we’ll still at least have [...]

Today, I had my last English Composition: Creative Persuasion & Argument class. I turned in my final paper, and also did an optional presentation that was pretty funny. The paper, “Thou Shalt Not Impose,” is a proposal argument about how religion has intruded into our government, why it’s a problem, and what specifically we should [...]

As a web designer, I’ve been following the spat between Apple and Adobe over Flash with interest. So how do I feel about the spat between Apple and Adobe? Whose side am I on? Well, I’m happy that Flash isn’t going to be such a crutch anymore. If a concept for a site can be [...]

If you have an interest in religion or if you want to read a story about what it’s like to become an atheist, then check out this narrative argument that I wrote for my English Composition: Creative Persuasion and Argument class. Display in browser – You can change the text-viewing options at the top of [...]

The prequel to the D&D campaign ended the Friday before last. Hopefully, the players and I will be able to begin the main story, but that wouldn’t happen until April at the soonest. You can download the session review (PDF). I also went and compiled all of the released materials I’ve made so far into [...]

Apparently, people think I’m cold and emotionless like a robot. It’s not true, and I don’t really like being thought of that way. I don’t wear my feelings on my sleeve or share my problems easily, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have them. So here’s something to give everybody a glimpse of my guarded [...]

The D&D campaign is now underway. Since we were missing a player and I didn’t want to start on the main story until everybody was present, I ended up starting them out on a short prequel adventure. The review (PDF) is available for anybody who wants to follow along. And if you want to learn [...]

Here I am at the San Diego airport again, ready to fly back to San Francisco for my next battery of classes at AAU.

One of AAU’s 32 bajillion buildings. They’re basically a real estate mafia at this point.
I had a nice, long break. I nearly did everything on my winter break bucket list, although I [...]

I’m starting to DM (“Dungeon Master” for those of you who don’t have blogs with names like “Geek Perspective”) a campaign for a group of people over in New York. They all get together, and then I appear on their laptop with the magic of modern technology.
They all seem really excited, which in turn makes [...]