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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

This week Brandon Walsh finished up his summer of blogging [https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/blogging-summer-2023-in-review/], a series I very much enjoyed following along with. It was a refreshing reminder that a blog post doesn't need to be a whole production... read more

This is the first time I've typed it: my high school Russian (and choir, and theater, but most of all Russian) teacher, Valerie Navarro, has died. There's a long list of high school friends and classmates I need to reach out to... read more

The "DH origin story" has become a genre, as I'm reminded by Brandon Walsh's recent Scholars Lab post on his [https://scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/origin-story/]. I've written mine too, including a couple takes on coding at the Data-Sitters Club [https://datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc12.html#id2] at the Data-Sitters Club... read more