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@eric_hontz @mtamaryland @GovLarryHogan Did you see the light rail on Friday afternoon ? Boy howdy it was bad. “Experiencing delays north and south bound” 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

I’m spending this morning learning about Parliamentary Procedure with an outside instructor because my neighborhood association is serious. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

“Change also means that the ideas and concerns of all people need to be a part of the design phase and the auditing of systems, even if this slows down the process. “ https://twitter.com/grok_/status/1172575320257384448 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Dear @alexa99 , I’m sitting in my car watching a Cylon light move back and forth waiting for the app to find the new device. This is pretty weak. https://t.co/zZ28lLcAI7 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@mikesbadtweets No, it wouldn’t be good for a 6 year old. Signed a 6yo with a switch’s dad. Honestly, it depends on the game and who in the family is in charge of charging remotes and if you allow them to make it portable. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@And_Caz @mikesbadtweets I 100% agree 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

My own #BlackMirror experience starts today. https://t.co/An5lrK1pxd 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

That was what I was thinking (and tried to draw!). As usual good accessibility is just plain good design. https://twitter.com/Randy334/status/1172502247525289984 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@eric_hontz Baltimore Street, Orleans/40, North Ave with integrated connections to Light Rail or metro 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I read an urban legend in typography: Is comic sans better for children with dyslexia than other fonts? I’ve found mention of it in studies but no studies about it. it seems sans serif fonts in general are equally effective in what I read. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Especially when Impact is available on every computer and you can italicize it? https://twitter.com/BrookeELierman/status/1172266902510538753 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

RT @UBHistory: Profs Nix + Davis attended a packed book release party at Red Emma’s last week for Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequalit… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

BTW, I know that’s not a rough mock-up but you use what you can. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I don’t understand why @mtamaryland Light Rail stops don’t have more coverage. Here’s a very rough mock up of a platform wide cover from rain and sun instead of the little sheds. https://t.co/AoagxcusAO 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@EvanMPeck Same boat 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Why did the #DemDebate have more on gluten? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@justgrimes remember that time we discussed the concept of a problem and you said BLANK said problems are when the perceived situation differs from the preferred situation? Who was that? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Styrofoam from packaging made the best Star War figure play sets…And they floated in the tub! https://twitter.com/AbsolutelyMindy/status/1172136174061797382 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Our Interaction #Design and Baltimore event @ #ubalt is live! And it’s free! #ixd https://interactiondesignday.org/2019event/baltimore-md/ 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@_ChelseaMonae Hi Chelsea, thanks! We talk about it in our Introduction to Interaction Design in our #UX design certificate http://www.ubalt.edu/cas/graduate-programs-and-certificates/certificate-programs/certificate-in-user-experience-design/ 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

#911Anniversary https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcoming-remarks-made-at-a-literary-reading-9-25-01 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Here’s a great example of #hostiledesign in #Baltimore. Instead of thinking through the social and emotional interaction of a space where transit and people meet, they just built a fence. The fact that you can see the benches makes it worse. https://twitter.com/_ChelseaMonae/status/1171775904999268353 🔄 1 👍 2 Original URL

#IxDD - Baltimore registration is live! We’ll discuss topics related to the intersection of interaction design, responsibility, and Baltimore. This World Interaction Design Day event is sponsored by the University of Baltimore’s UX and IxD programs. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-interaction-design-day-baltimore-tickets-72381068725 🔄 2 👍 3 Original URL

It’s time for disassembling keyboard to understand and model cognitive processes in #hci https://t.co/QJH3zu3jeA 🔄 2 👍 3 Original URL

If you’re working on your #chi2020 paper about kids and co-design and need some good definitions around standard practices, check out our paper https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2481400 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@keyboardmaestro It’s really good! 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@keyboardmaestro Weird question… did you code the tutorial as part of the Keyboard Maestro program or was it with a secondary tool? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Nope, the raised rivets were too close. Curious what it was. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Did an @mtamaryland contractor dump a piece of debris from redoing the Mt Washington station into Wester Run Creek below? https://t.co/aS78V6POcX 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Proving once again, if there’s a handwritten note, something has gone wrong. https://t.co/E3HNraOYCe 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jakemauer @jessgartner When Pete got paid ~$20k I remember thinking that was so low….until I looked it up in the inflation calculator. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@dbetzel @eric_hontz @JohnBert07 Good question. Here’s a story from 2015 on it https://www.google.com/amp/s/fivethirtyeight.com/features/baltimores-toxic-legacy-of-lead-paint/amp/ 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@JohnBert07 @dbetzel @eric_hontz You’re right, recent history is important. Check out some of @AlecMacGillis work to see how history has shaped Baltimore or take a class with @UBHistory on the city. It is mind blowing. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@JohnBert07 @dbetzel @eric_hontz You and I both know that Baltimore City is f’ed up. The difference is I as a resident, dad, educator and researcher is trying to do something about it while you throw up BS “what abouts” and context free facts. If you want to help, I could send some orgs to donate to or volunteer 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@BmoreDoc Here’s some good data on that. https://bniajfi.org/indicators/Sustainability/trees 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@CarolSOtt Nope, a credit union. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@dbetzel @JohnBert07 @eric_hontz Like, I said, the city isn’t innocent in this process but requires more funding for wrap around student services due to things like lead exposure and extreme violence. Re: lead: Garrett County has 1/20 zip w/ > 50% or more at risk of elevated levels. Baltimore City has 50+ (~all) 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@CarolSOtt And if they do, there’s probably no tellers…just a security guard and greeter who sends you to TV screens. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@ChipChantry Isn’t that what happened to their Folgers in styrofoam cups? 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@JohnBert07 @eric_hontz Even if it is 3rd spending per student, do you understand what support is required for many students in Baltimore? The city’s hands aren’t clean on this but it really starts at the state. You need to understand a kid’s whole environment before judging the raw numbers. Context. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

I found these today abandoned in front of Whole Foods. A scam gone awry? https://t.co/zt8vteLPlD 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jvitak Way up here in Baltimore, too. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

It looks like Hopkins took down the coding bootcamp info on their School of Engineering Program Websites where they make it sound like it is a JHU program. Good thing Google has a cache of it! https://t.co/jsZWNhg9OU 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@jeffbigham @mdekstrand Bezo$$ sound like a crypto 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@mdekstrand Conceptually or the $2.35 bill you get monthly after you turn everything off? Mine’s the latter. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@AmberleyBabbage @feedly Yes. Apple News doesn’t (or I couldn’t figure out how to) handle RSS feeds well. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Is the MIT Media Lab falling from grace? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@monteiro Can we vote using our $100-laptops? Oh wait… 🔄 0 👍 3 Original URL

@mikesbadtweets @BaltCitySchools I’m not sure if you guys have AC or not, but throw in “closing 1/2 the school because one building has AC and the little kid building doesn’t” to the mix of buses and it’s a true wreck. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

If you have a degree or some college and are interested in learning more about #development don’t go to a bootcamp! Think about #UBalt ’s computer programming certificate program. It’s really real for-credit courses taught by us. http://www.ubalt.edu/cas/undergraduate-majors-and-minors/majors/computer-programming/ 🔄 2 👍 1 Original URL

@mikesbadtweets @BaltCitySchools I think something similar happened at Mount Washington. Busses didn’t show on day1 at all and stops were dropped from the routes even though kids didn’t change. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@AGallyer @jasoninmia I was too and think I lacked the negotiation skills when I was first hired. Colleagues who were new but had more family experience got way better hiring packages. DM me if you have any specific ?s. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

RT @ScottHech: Parole was initially designed as an alternative to incarceration. Parole officers were trained in social work. If you took a… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Here’s a link to the wikipedia page about the previous endeavor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Career_Institute I taught there when I was laid-off from my job in 2001 and it was terrible for me and the curriculum and the promises made were deceptive. They were shut down in 2013. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Hopkins is using a for-profit ed company to subcontract tech education for $11k. No mention on the site (https://engineering.jhu.edu/johns-hopkins-coding-bootcamp/) that it is outsourced to “professionals”. This is the same crap they pulled targeting vulnerable people in 2001 at the dotcom boom/bust. #education 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@eric_hontz @BDCBaltimore Nope, not easy. But it would be….I hate this word…… transformational. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@eric_hontz @BDCBaltimore I’ve been pushing this too. It is soooooo feasible and would be a great public infrastructure project. Loop in public Universities, small businesses, and city agencies and I think we’d have something special. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

I need some input: OneNote vs Evernote? I’ve been using OneNote but I’m just not convinced. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@serayibrahim Thanks! Here’s a better shot. https://t.co/Y929JvDUoJ 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Fun fact: there is no “1” on my typewriter. You must use lower case “L” 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

My cat finds my rage typing Baltimore City school forms fascinating. Why can’t we do this online? I will make you a FileMaker Pro database to do it, Baltimore https://t.co/W0vxXa0n9g 🔄 0 👍 4 Original URL

Super curious which algorithm thinks I need financial advice about charitable giving offsetting my capital gains tax bill during an M&A transaction. I’m not quite sure what that is nor do I think I can give enough money to a charity that would offset it. https://twitter.com/FidelityChrtbl/status/1148281165658431490 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@EvanMPeck is this the year I come visit? 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

My annual brag: I am starting my 19th consecutive year of teaching. 🔄 0 👍 7 Original URL

@ZZtsd @MikeTaylor_1970 @GOP_Crisis @sandyhook According to the Daily Caller, GW never said that. https://checkyourfact.com/2019/04/24/fact-check-george-washington-right-bear-arms-citizens-duty-take-away/ 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @eric_hontz: @GovLarryHogan this is what a revamp of the bus lines in Baltimore would look like. All we got was paint. https://t.co/R0mc… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@Acuity_Design Well I hope your plane change at Dulles/BWI/Reagan is uneventful! 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@Acuity_Design What are you doing in DC? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jengolbeck 👍 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

“biomedical companies are bleeding 500,000 every year.” This crab’s blood is the reason you’re alive - Popular Mechanics https://apple.news/AbLgwCw-FTxqfLW2_hlVqMw 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@anthonydpaul Role, not proxy 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

This might be the vehicle to take the role electric scooters have been filling in cities. https://twitter.com/kashthefuturist/status/1167794593888272384 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@kelleher_kc That’s my reaction every time! 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@bethdean Evernote or OneNote would let you scan and do OCR in the background so I’m not sure if it would be immediate. OneNote would let you underline immediately. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@hmorrell Did you get those on clearance when the book store moved? Mine were $4-$5 each 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jengolbeck There’s a command line twitter client called t that has user authentication. Then you can pipe it to python or perl 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Once #baltimore gets basic city functions down, we need municipal broadband. Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for $60 a month - Ars Technica https://apple.news/An6xCBMrJQh63MixX3UvXPg 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@NihilSegniter I had good experience with Milton Electric. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@JWPascale @ThomasDFish Oxford cancelled plans for a pool because they didn’t want people from Easton coming down. It’s a lot of money. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

There is so much money in Talbot County that will do everything in their power to block 8. https://twitter.com/JWPascale/status/1166363043233705987 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG My favorite Ernest movie right after Ernest goes to jail 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG Not hacked…just robo-posters. I think I used these techniques http://osxdaily.com/2016/11/26/icloud-calendar-spam-invite-stop/ 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@sevensixfive @CityLab That was fascinating! The potential of what could have been and what is is frustrating. Do you have anything on Pill Hill 😁 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @GioVincenti: Yes!!! #NASASUITS published the 2020 Design Challenge! Team #UBaltARGOS is getting ready! #ubalt #baltimore #NASAcodes @Eu… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

We can #codesign with teens to make cities better places. https://twitter.com/CityLab/status/1166012987913789443 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

#UBalt is #33 on Washington Monthly’s best Master’s Universities (NE - #1 in MD!!!), #18 on Best Bang for Your Buck,and #31 on Best 4-Year schools for adult learners. If you’re in the North East, want to get a Master’s in #Design and don’t want to spend a bunch, come to #UBalt! 🔄 10 👍 16 Original URL

@sevensixfive Is there more about that? I run through there and I’ve always been fascinated by that neighborhood. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@sevensixfive I think that was the original plan for EPCOT when it was a city and not a theme park. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Now just stuck on Light Rail at North Ave. What’s up with @mtamaryland Light Rail this summer (besides giant sink holes)? 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

Ugh…emergency shutdown on @mtamaryland Light Rail south of Camden Yards. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @UBalt_ES: We can bearly contain our excitement about classes starting next week! Can’t wait to see all the new and returning faces on c… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

This has been in my ToDo list for a month and I’m not sure if it is a call to arms or I was supposed to solve it in a day: We need to connect people who are engaged and have a voice with people who are engaged and don’t have a voice. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

“Private schools and universities should lose their tax-exempt status unless at least half of their students come from families in the bottom two-thirds of the income distribution.” https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/meritocracys-miserable-winners/594760/ 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

“This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and know what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.” https://earther.gizmodo.com/icelanders-mourn-loss-of-okjokull-glacier-with-ceremony-1837354287 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Are we ready to start implementing #linux in municipal government yet?Baltimore and other cities wouldn’t have attacks. TBH, just good digital hygiene would have prevented it but Linux would have made it stronger https://www.kut.org/post/ransomware-attack-hits-local-governments-texas 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@eric_hontz @CarolSOtt Do you want any help on it? 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@lintool Pardon my ignorance but what is STOA? Is it like as predicted? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Do + signs work in hashtags? #lets+find+out … nope 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I bought an iPhone7+ to replace my MotoG phone. I loved the promise of an open device like the budget android phones but got fed up with the budget hardware. AR was supposed to work but didn’t usably. Plus, I wanted a better camera. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@eric_hontz @Bmorejourno And you’re all in my house 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL