Notes
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Designing the Hunting Game for “The Oregon Trail” | by R. Philip Bouchard | The Philipendium | Medium medium.comRead: medium.com
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How I Managed to Design the Most Successful Educational Computer Game of All Time | by R. Philip Bouchard | The Philipendium | Medium medium.comRead: medium.com
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» On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 1 The Digital Antiquarian filfre.netRead: www.filfre.net
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The Forgotten History of ‘The Oregon Trail,’ As Told By Its Creators vice.comRead: www.vice.com
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1971: The Oregon Trail - 50 Years of Text Games if50.substack.comRead: if50.substack.com
🔖 Martha Bautells’s On Writing Through a Residency That Never Happened (But Did?) resonates with me, as I still grieve the dissertation I didn’t write.
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💬📚 “The graduate program… hinges on a level of detachment from the corporeal, on a laser focus and dedication to one’s intellectual development.” - Rachel Leventhal-Weiner in Succeeding Outside of the Academy
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What We Learned From a Year of Crafting - The New York Times nytimes.comRead: www.nytimes.com
There are worse things than sitting outside at a children’s museum on a beautiful day with little fans pointed at your face while your spouse plays with your kid and you catch up on all the things you bookmarked to read.
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Kristen Arnett Gets Her Best Ideas at the Bar - Interview Magazine interviewmagazine.com
🔖🖥️ Elizabeth and Gav promised in this week’s The Rec Center that 1992: Silverwolf would be the most engrossing post I’d read all week and it did not disappoint.
Career Advice for PhDs Websites and Professionals: You should use ImaginePhD! It will help you identify a good post/alt/non-ac career for your interests and skills!
ImaginePhD: Hi Kimberly. You know what you’d be really good at? Being university faculty.
Me: sigh
🔖📚 Read Together As We Burn: On a Complicated Maternal Bond and Intergenerational Love. A heartbreaking excerpt from Ashley C. Ford’s memoir, Somebody’s Daughter.
🔖📚 Read Stories and Hormones Shape Our Lives by Elanor Broker. Beautiful essay weaving together personal experiences of trans matrescence and the books Detransition, Baby and The Argonauts.
🔖📝 Read Finding Time to Write About Motherhood… While Parenting During a Pandemic . The usual fragmented life of a mother is intensified by the pandemic.
I’ve also made my Scholarly Writing Project Audit and Pipeline Notion template available via Gumroad. It’s pay-what-you-can/want. It is based on podcasts and worksheets by @Katie___Linder and a blog post by @raulpacheco.
For #TrekTuesday, I’ll share that I spend a LOT of time wondering why we don’t see social scientists as key crew members on the Enterprise-D and the ethics of Deanna Troi’s talking to people about their feelings in front of other crew members. #StarTrek 🖖📺
I’ve made my Conceptual Synthesis Spreadsheet Notion template available via Gumroad. It’s pay-what-you-can/want. This spreadsheet is based on Raul Pacheco-Vega’s Article-Introduction-Conclusion/Conceptual Synthesis Excel Dump method.
Thanks to a generous person I met in the Mermaids of NC group on Facebook, I am now Dr. Mer-Mom. Apparently having a mermaid tail makes me extra huggable.
Build networks & ask for what you need & give what you can. Swimming in a mermaid tail is a hobby with a community. I’ve wanted to get into it for years. I asked my local mermaid group (aka pod) on Fb if anybody had an old tail that would fit me. Someone is GIVING me one. 🧜♀️💗
I got a Rakuten Libra H2O and I am so excited about its OverDrive integration. So many public library books at my fingertips on a screen that’s not backlit and that I don’t have to sideload via Adobe Digital Editions!
📚💬 “We learn to wring magic from the ordinary… When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.” Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo, p. 460