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The following is the text I formally submitted to the US Copyright Office as part of a comment on the 2024 proposed expansion to the DMCA exemption for text and data mining. The expansion was granted, ... read more

For his 9th birthday, I took my middle kid and theater buddy to see Hamilton in San Francisco. I've listened through it hundreds of times, and watched the recorded performance several more, but seeing it in person is always different... read more

There is a story that comes before every story. I went back to Rebecca Munson's blog looking for mine. I wrote about Rebecca for the Data-Sitters Club [https://datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc13.html#rebecca-munson]... read more

I found my first gray hair last Friday. At my age, it feels like an echo of puberty anxieties: who hasn't gotten their period yet? Several of my friends are fully and gloriously silver, but I found it curious that I hadn't noticed a single one during my regular hair dye as memorial ritual for Rebecca Munson [https://datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc13.html#the-power-of-purple-quinn]... read more

I teach DH-oriented project management as a tabletop role-playing game, dubbed the #DHRPG [https://dhrpg.github.io/]. Participants each play a different institutional role than their own: one undergrad playing a librarian... read more

There were several years [https://quinndaedal.com/blog/2020/03/21/working-conditions/] when I read a lot of "Captain Underpants", years before the kids could read the books themselves, and before they lost interest... read more

The downside of always weaving data is that there's less place to just screw around with technique. I tried introducing a few leno twists into the end of my Gideon the Ninth weaving, but they didn't really work out like I'd hoped... read more

With winter break starting so late this year, we went to central Florida to visit my father. On one of the first days, we took the kids to a park where the trees were lined with Spanish moss. I've always loved Spanish moss... read more

I've declared this academic year the Year of the Loom at the Textile Makerspace [https://textilemakerspace.stanford.edu/]. Last March I replaced my desk with a floor loom without knowing the first thing about them... read more

For people new to text analysis, it can be hard to wrap your head around the gap between what's completely obvious to you as a human and what's easily detectible by a computer. Especially when working with humanities data... read more