Panic Subsided

Was supposed to have a pretty big web meeting this morning, but due to lateness getting the info out, school starting for most people, and probably miscommunication this didn't happen. I'm glad, because I was SO not ready. I'm starting to think I have a social anxiety problem with phones, because I never feel this nervous when in person. Maybe it's the lack of being able to read nonverbal cues? In text you at least have time to think of responses... or maybe I have brain/voice disconnect.

Almost done playing Persona 3, keep delaying getting to the FINAL SHOWDOWN because there are a couple persona I forgot to fuse (ha, whoops). Completist me wants them all, but some that are like LEVEL 90 AND SHIT will not be mine on first playthrough unless I want to bore myself to tears leveling through Tartarus. The fact that the game managed to make me not only do some levels but lots of click-through talking social interactions has given me ideas for stuff at work!

Stuck in the feedback cycle with work right now, waiting on funding for our ITEST grant to come through so that Biology Maven and I can start the CS game we designed months ago.

In other news I made this:



And I'm reading this:

- Women in mathematics cartoon.

- Leveling the playing field by making CS majors learn obscure languages first? Actually, learning Matlab before C in my freshman engineering classes did help me with later stuff and forced the young haxx0rs to readjust their thinking a bit.

- Self-cleaning tech I could use that for our floor.

- Who defines and controls "normal"?

- What your identity has to do with learning Or how an identity crisis will make you suck at school I speak from experience.

- Nifty sorting algorithm demo. Click the boxes with the lines to start them. XD

- The Failings of Force Failure in games. Semi-related to group lunch topics! XD