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This is my second iPhone post.

I’m writing this from my iPhone.

[gallery link=“file” columns=“2”] (Click images for a larger view.) Brooke Baker of Brooke Baker Photography in action while shooting my niece and daughter and, then, my wife and daughter.

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I’m in a tough spot. My entire career depends on research and writing and I need a way to keep all of my bibliographic resources in one (safe) place. I like using LaTeX for writing papers, but, it is so unwieldy when it comes to getting feedback from my team because we like to use the (say what you will) the excellent commentary tools in Word. I really like the BibTex file format/concept for storing my bibliography for my papers, proposal, and dissertation because it keeps everything in one place and, through tools like BibDesk, I can easily integrate them into Word. I do not like EndNote because it is such a resource hog. I didn’t “love” Zotero, a product from GW, but I didn’t hate it either. It worked with Word and I can export to BibTex if I need to. ...

Giving number 100 of 112 25-second speeches this morning was the scariest moment in my academic life*. If you’re not familiar, CHI has a fun tradition of doing CHIMadness each morning where EVERY speaker of the day gets up and does a 25 second “commercial” for their talk. Very nerve racking. VERY. The room was so packed that the organizers needed to invoke the fabled Fire Marshall rules and keep people out of the room. ...