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@steveportigal My guess is the do “real” projects for “real” clients. GA charges students and partners. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

OMG, power out since 4am. Had to watch morning TV with a flashlight. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Parent thought of the day: Jazz hands are cheaper than jazz shoes. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

RT @fkajack: lady gaga’s bad romance in major key sounds like you’re playing a video game & someone is trying to sell you potions. https://… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@odannyboy And then I wonder if “Web designers” will actually just design the AI that designs the sites and the distinction between commodity design and stellar design will be the signature style of the AI… 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@disnazzio Those are the gateway to more illicit pants. Next is parachute, then Hammer, then jean shorts. It only ends in tragedy. 🔄 0 👍 3 Original URL

@eric_hontz @TOMGEDDES WOW, ok. I think we have what they are looking for but I imagined we’d be overlooked because, well, we always are. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@eric_hontz Let me rephrase that…have we recently become a serious contender? 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@eric_hontz Are we in the running? 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

My office is literally above this corner. https://twitter.com/EubieBee/status/951468046987776000 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@melissa_schober If I’m reading this correctly, Baltimore has twice the total number of out of zone students. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @MikeWJZ: If you love #DUCKPIN #Bowling, please retweet, like, or share. There are 10 duckpin alleys left in #Baltimore. Thanks to the n… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Good news: I was able to clone an IR signal from my kids’ LaserTag set so I can make new blasters and sensors. Bad news: That’s not my job and my paper isn’t finished. 🔄 1 👍 6 Original URL

I LOL’d at a NPS property using #treatyoself Although, we could all use a break at a national park. https://twitter.com/LBJohnsonNPS/status/951121922691162112 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@doctorow One (odd) thing I’m looking forward to is the nostalgia for things like the Hyperloop. I imagine my kids saying “I’m 30 years old and there’s still no hyperloop.” much like I do about jet packs and flying cars. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

32 minutes because I’m so efficient. https://twitter.com/kkapp/status/950815227779670017 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@JamesIHammond @mtamaryland @DrRockt0pus Ha! I was going wrong way. That sounds great. I love when people have fun with their work and make it their own. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@eric_hontz This is our only solution. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

OMG this .@mtamaryland light rail pilot is having the best time naming upcoming stops…“Next stop-Wooooooooodberry” made me smile 🔄 0 👍 3 Original URL

That was just outside the lower school but was illustrative of the area up here. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

.@BaltimoreDPW no salt trucks came through Pill Hill. We had six stranded vehicles in our neighborhood and it took 40 minutes to walk a 12 minute walk to school. That entire road was a sheet of ice. https://t.co/vB5Ft0iyga 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Besides the sheets of ice that will lead you to your death, it’s quite pleasant outside. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

I just surfed down my driveway on a sheet of ice. It was fun. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@bosconet @MairZdoatz @BaltimoreDPW Isn’t it that the plastic wasn’t designed for our climate? Especially deep deep cold… Don’t quote me… 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

This is where you waste goes when choose not to hack and repurpose your tech. https://www.wired.com/story/international-electronic-waste-photographs/ 🔄 1 👍 1 Original URL

@eegilbert There’s also the possibility that the professor is so out of touch, they might really think all undergrads publish. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @MayorPugh50: Major Announcement: The Enoch Pratt Free Library has announced a historic 30% increase in hours of operation at branches a… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Congrats! https://twitter.com/Jenny0wens/status/950184250220990464 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

I’m looking for a Baltimore-based non-profit who needs some kind of UX/interactive work done and has an RFP prepared-ish. My UX ProjManagment class would like to work w/ you. Formerly worked w/ .@Hosts4Humanity Please RT! 🔄 6 👍 6 Original URL

I doubt this is recent (but the enrollment is relatively updated), but the program I’ve run for almost 4 years at .@EubieBee was listed as a top 10 program for Interaction Design https://www.webdesigndegreecenter.org/top/best-online-masters-interactive-design-media/ 🔄 2 👍 9 Original URL

I really think google is telling me something with article it recommended http://drbecca.scientopia.org/2018/01/03/what-do-you-do-when-they-say-no/ 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@eric_hontz And at that moment, I was a marine biologist. https://t.co/7r9cIP0xns 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

This was a nice surprise to see on Google Scholar… 2017 ended higher than 2016 in citations. Although, I have a feeling it’s all .@jasoncyip https://t.co/VGqwcARGjU 🔄 0 👍 3 Original URL

#amplify https://twitter.com/BRhea12/status/948566111502700544 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

#amplify https://twitter.com/JesseOneT/status/948561962102910976 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I feel so old. I still like Aeron chairs. I used a standing desk for 2 years and liked it but felt people didn’t respect my work time because I was not hunched over a desk. Now that I walk so much, I sit at my desk and wish I had an Aeron https://www.fastcodesign.com/90155533/what-apples-new-office-chairs-reveal-about-work-in-2018 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@eric_hontz I think this is the kit I have. https://www.acurite.com/pro-weather-station-with-5-in-1-weather-sensor-and-alarms.html Then I use a Raspberry Pi + weeWX software to publish to https://www.wunderground.com/weather/us/md/baltimore/KMDBALTI125 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

It’s cold. https://t.co/BQjoMhaMq7 🔄 0 👍 3 Original URL

Just to be clear. We are now trying to out do a $35 computer that rivals anything I had until 2010 with a $20 one that beats that. Have you ever stepped back and said “Wow…” https://www.techrepublic.com/article/this-20-raspberry-pi-rival-runs-android-and-offers-4k-video/ 🔄 2 👍 1 Original URL

@thingspeak Phewwwwww… I will email them! 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@thingspeak Did you drop your thingspeak login? The last time I connected, it said switching to Mathworks was optional but now I can’t log in. Is my data lost? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@BirchCelloWren EEK. I guess you keep the water running? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

The tap water coming into my house (as measured in my kitchen which is closest to supply) is 39.6F. That. Is. Cold. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Michael Knight gets arrested a lot. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Now this one has voice commands that play the Pointer Sisters and mentions of George Lucas. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@MDScienceCenter @_momjeans Yes! 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

This one has Larry from Newhart as a bum who wakes up KITT’s evil twin KARR (voiced by Optimus Prime!) How can this not be the best episode of any show ever? Did I mention the cowboy boots? 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

My 5yo and I are watching the best Knight Rider episodes to celebrate the new year 🔄 0 👍 5 Original URL

My 5 and 8yo find “Be Cool Scooby-Doo” hilarious. It is funny but I’m having trouble getting passed the FamilyGuy-esque style. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Interesting vandalism at #ubalt Says " ruined healthcare economy bottemed out" This vandal seriously needs several of our .@UBHistory classes (and econ) https://t.co/3VI6eTEnuT 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@LoStavro Thanks! But there’s GOT to be better things to listen to this time of year :) ! If you’re interested in more Child-Computer Interaction, check out @jphourcade ’s book Child-Computer Interaction http://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~hourcade/book/index.php 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

RT @aznchew: Shout out to anyone else scrolling through twitter instead of writing a first draft. https://t.co/GYyurq1DCV 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

This semester was my second semester of using .@IDEO ’s Human Centered Toolkit + online readings as my class text in order to save students money. In reflection, this didn’t work well. .@jenpre et als book on Interaction Design is excellent and I’m thinking of going back. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Who attaches a gdoc file as your final project? 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@MyBGE But it has drifted two weeks since the summer. In my prev 18 yrs of being a customer,I had a due date. Plus,I’m on budget billing-why does it matter what day it is read…you would just adjust next month. PLUS, it is a smart meter…why can’t you download on the same day monthly? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@paulmgardner The Matrix is just experiencing some problems because Net Neutrality was eliminated. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@LarryHogan ’s plan for “commuter relief” is going to just create a bigger bottleneck on the highways. We need better regional transit that moves people where they need and want to go. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Anyone else had .@MyBGE slowly change their due dates? I went from a bill due 8/23/17 to 9/21 to 10/13 to 11/10 to 12/11<?> to 1/08/18. At this rate, I’ll get 13 bills from them next year. I’ve looked and I have no notice of a change in dates. Is this something @MarylandPSC does? 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

As I grade my undergrad students’ not-so-great end of semester projects, I remember the time I phoned in my history final in sophomore year to get a C. Who knows, some of these students may go on to be award winning scholars someday. They just need to learn how to use spellcheck. 🔄 0 👍 6 Original URL

@benpocalypse @amazon I just LOL’d 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Today @amazon left a package under the sign that said “Please don’t leave packages here” 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@MDScienceCenter @HarrisTeeter Thank you! https://t.co/lfLftWtUx0 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I clearly wrote a sign saying “don’t leave packages here…put them over there.” And @fedex left the package under the sign. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@HarrisTeeter @MDScienceCenter It was in Maryland but they found it. I’m going to sew in contact information if it gets lost again. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

ICYMI: The MD Science Center found my 5yo’s hat and revealed it in the best way possible! https://twitter.com/MDScienceCenter/status/942769993934102530 🔄 2 👍 9 Original URL

@annmariebrok Have you seen my #UBalt colleague @bblodgett new book: https://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Geek-Masculinity-Media-Trolling/dp/3319660764 🔄 1 👍 3 Original URL

@MDScienceCenter Thank you! My wife will stop by today. It’s graduation day at #ubalt so I can’t make it. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Christmas miracles do come true! https://twitter.com/MDScienceCenter/status/942769993934102530 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@MDScienceCenter OMG! You guys aren’t open today are you?! This is so great!! 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@doctorow Not sure about UK but in US, systems constantly monitor public land transactions and start spamming you. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@LiamFD To be clear: I am in full support of municipal broadband. I am not in full support that city council could pull it off, nor do I believe the city council supports Baltimore. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@avareltech @LiamFD @lukebroadwater Verizon has been pretty open that they are not expanding FiOS. They are focusing on high-speed wireless. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/verizon-spends-1b-on-fiber-but-its-for-5g-wireless-not-more-fios/ 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@LiamFD It would be great if it turned out our city council thinks about what’s best for the city and not their campaign funds. I can see some of our leaders taking special interest money to squash municipal broadband. A taste of things to come: https://www.wired.com/story/koch-brothers-are-cities-new-obstacle-to-building-broadband/ 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Another #ubalt #whimsylab student has released a mobile video game called Postal Juggernaut. It is quite addictive… https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cinderlystgames.PostalJuggernaut&hl=en 🔄 1 👍 1 Original URL

@MDScienceCenter @HarrisTeeter The alien is much bigger on the hat. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@MDScienceCenter @HarrisTeeter Thank you! It is black and has the blue alien on it that was on the glove I posted. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Do you love data analytics? Do you love user centered design? Then watch this: https://livestream.com/hulive/datasummit/videos/166978701 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

My 5yo lost his hat at the .@MDScienceCenter on Sun. This is the matching glove. If you know where to get a replacement, let me know. Bought it at .@HarrisTeeter last year but didn’t see them this week. There were tears. He de-listed a video game to ask Santa for a new one. https://t.co/GOjWw1yVzz 🔄 1 👍 1 Original URL

@Noleli When does it go dead? I’m gxwals 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@wittbecky Is that 2020? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

What if this was Bannon’s plan? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@andybohm @netflix sidenote: I think it was just Westerns. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@paulmgardner I for one enjoy his radio program. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

People whine a lot on twitter. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@mackcaple If you attend one of our open houses or just reach out, we waive application fees. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@_rnbrewer Super interesting BUT is it snowing on that link? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

The 4 P’s of making all learning Kindergarten-like: Passion, Projects, Peers, Playfulness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfvgVpQI56I 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I’d like to see Baltimore partner with local industry to pay for universal Pre-K. The long-term benefits outweigh the short-term costs and it looks like it reduces costs as time goes on with less remediation and special ed. https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/12/12/568378251/does-preschool-pay-off-tulsa-says-yes 🔄 1 👍 0 Original URL

@disnazzio Lots of fluids and REST…also, rest your voice…mine left last week and is just coming back. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

RT @Channel4: Almost 29 years ago, Sergeant Al Powell helped save dozens of lives after being sent to investigate a prank call at Nakatomi… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

“The labor market doesn’t pay you for the useless subjects you master; it pays you for the preexisting traits you signal by mastering them.” I would tell you that Critical thinking and reflection aren’t preexisiting traits. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/whats-college-good-for/546590/ 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@secuMD Is the online banking down? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Happy belated birthday to me…I’m at #jumanji with the whole fam. Excited to see @TheRock @KevinHart4real @karengillan + jackblack https://t.co/iad4pbdGw4 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@bishopia It’s like the worst part of the 80’s was projected onto the side of a soda can and a 90’s filter was applied. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@EvanMPeck Have you been here before? It’s a pretty nice urban campus. I’ll be coming up your way during the holidays and Spring as well. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

I’ll be talking with #UBalt adjunct Katherine Marconi about Data Analytics, user centered design, and ecosystems of information. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

Today I am at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology for the Data Analytics Summit 🔄 0 👍 4 Original URL

@disnazzio If you feel bad now, wait for the unending after cough. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@disnazzio Last Friday, I got a fever of high 102s and woke up Tuesday. Good luck 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @ElleOhHell: If Wonder Woman and Spider-Man go into business together, they should call it Amazon Web Services. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL