Sorry for all the Drupal: Reflections on the 3rd anniversary of 'Drupal for Humanists'
November 8th 2019When I finished writing Drupal for Humanists on July 15, 2015, my Magic-the-Gathering-playing, arithmetic-doing kindergartener was a barely-verbal toddler. The night I finished the manuscript was memorable in more ways than one... read more
On the future of Slavic DH in the United States
July 12th 2019These were my comments framing the "Methodology as Community: Fostering Collaboration Beyond Scholarly Societies" panel at DH 2019 in Utrecht, with Peter Haslinger, Antonina Puchkovskaia, Seth Bernstein... read more
4th Year Russian, 3rd time around
April 2nd 2019I was 15 when the Cyrillic alphabet shifted from an exotic set of vaguely-familiar symbols to something I could read. After attending high school in Argentina for a summer as an exchange student (where I was first introduced to Harry Potter and his “piedra filosofal”)... read more
Towards a Taxonomy of Failure
January 30th 2019Introductory note: I intended this talk, given at the "On the Benefits of Failure" workshop [https://novel-tm.ca/?p=807] at the University of Alberta in March 2018 (video available here [https://era-av.library.ualberta.ca/media_objects/avalon:42992])... read more
Annotating geeky fashion (or, what I wore to DH 2014)
July 11th 2014I've never really thought of myself as fashionable in any sense-- I can count every pair of shoes I own on one hand, own no makeup at all, and pick up clothing staples at the local Goodwill on half-price days... read more
AcWriMo: a postmortem
December 2nd 2012Here comes winter [http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8478/8159721512_9667e624b2_m.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/8159721512/AcWriMo completely failed to have the effect I'd hoped for, but I'm taking it as a sign of a positive change... read more
AcWriMo
November 3rd 2012[/assets/blog/acwrimo.png]http://www.phd2published.com/2012/10/15/announcing-acwrimo/At the beginning of August, I moved from Chicago to Berkeley. It's been a wonderful change that has come with many upsides... read more
Alternate uses for a Slavic degree: dummy content generator
July 10th 2012As I've announced elsewhere [http://drupal.forhumanists.org/blog/2012/07/11/drupal-humanists-now-website], Drupal for Humanists is launching today on its own domain. I wanted to make sure that there was at least one case study available before launch... read more
Drupal book progress (or lack thereof)
June 26th 2012Writing a book is hard. [http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5463/7422686278_3afba45850_n.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/7422686278/It's been about six months since Elijah Meeks and I kicked off our plan to write a book on Drupal for an audience of humanists... read more
Scav hunt or Art? (a guessing game)
May 7th 2012When spring comes to the University of Chicago campus, there are two annual events that inject a certain whimsical randomness into my work week: Scav Hunt [http://scavhunt.uchicago.edu/] and FOTA (Festival of the Arts) [http://fota.uchicago.edu/]... read more