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@JennaForMayor Does it have “Handling ghosts that scare off visitors/shoppers/residents”,“How to wear a sash and top hat”, or “Kissing babies and cutting ribbons: All in a day’s work”? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

This came out earlier but it is so good I wanted to share it: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/how-the-index-card-catalogued-the-world/547271/?utm_content=buffer328e2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@APreciousPony But, it is really cool. I feel like there is a backend missing from the description but it could be really cool. Weirdly, I feel like we would have heard more manufactured stuff that works this way but I haven’t. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@APreciousPony When I saw that, all I could think of was this toy from 1984: http://www.theoldrobots.com/Starriors.html The remote didn’t have batteries. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@CityLab I’m pretty sure because it was the 60’s and they were all out of hexagons. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

That’s the one I chose to celebrate this year. 🔄 0 👍 5 Original URL

Today I am celebrating my 33rd birthday. 🔄 0 👍 5 Original URL

@cmcampbell6 When I worked in towson, my number was the same national number of selective service if you added 410 to the beginning. (force of habit?) On one occasion, after explaining it was a wrong number I answered all of a mom’s concerns about the draft and sending her baby to Iraq. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

Public lands host 71 percent of climbers, 70 percent of hunters and 43 percent of paddlers in America. Outdoor recreation is among America’s largest industries, w/ 7.6 million jobs and $887 billion spent far outpacing the jobs and spending generated by the oil and gas industry. https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/937822431472967682 🔄 1 👍 1 Original URL

RT @PBSKIDS: “Some of the very best educational technology comes from PBS KIDS, and this should surprise no one.” Well, shucks. Educationa… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@iduncan There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. 🔄 0 👍 3 Original URL

RT @ChipChantry: So I guess INDIRECTLY, Donald Trump IS Time’s Person of the Year! 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@eric_hontz Much of the boasting about the car was meant to be non-impressive by omission. It’s a him thing, not any particular community 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Unless you’re Thor. https://twitter.com/SenBillFerg/status/938129923423817729 🔄 0 👍 4 Original URL

RT @CreativeNewman: Want to build your own version of @nprdesign’s workshop facilitation “go bag”? Here’s what’s in our kit: https://t.co/f… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@wittbecky There’s a cool concept from the 19th century called Peelian Principles that basically boil down to police are citizens in uniforms and their job is to keep crime down as an alternative to military force. It’s a nice idea not remembered today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@annmariebrok I started to feel sick on Friday. Today I got fully dressed. Drink lots of water…you’ll need it. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

This is a brilliant and scary use of vr. https://twitter.com/EvanMPeck/status/937676874976722946 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

“I never thought a robot shooting cavemen could be so boring” #MST3K 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @SarahHuckabee: When you’re attacking FBI agents because you’re under criminal investigation, you’re losing https://twitter.com/politicalwire/status/794255050243801090 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@brrian The exact opposite of this. https://t.co/z6WpVwbA38 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I don’t know how we’re running out of Cobalt…I see these discarded in every network closet I go in. https://t.co/eXjPH52Nur 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Corker and the Deficit Hawks is my new #bandname 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@StrickerStreet do we run this program? https://twitter.com/CityLab/status/936447553486323712 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @kelleher_kc: It wasn’t an earthquake it was the erosion of our nation’s soul 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

.@pubhealthninja https://www.npr.org/2017/11/30/567477160/how-the-loss-of-u-s-psychiatric-hospitals-led-to-a-mental-health-crisis 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

She’ll be appearing live in Baltimore on Dec 18th http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/bs-md-ci-betsy-devos-commencement-20170908-story.html https://twitter.com/EricaLG/status/936292595617140737 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @FakeLibStats: 98% of books with a green cover are unavailable until January as they’re being used for the library’s book tree https://t… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

There was a TEDx at #UBalt two weeks ago and no one seemed to notice and I’ve seen nothing about it. How weird… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @manjusrii: 5yo: I am building a semi ominous vehicle out of cardboard Me: You mean semi autonomous 5yo: You don’t understand my techn… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I’m not against caps per se as I’ve seen students borrow extra BUT the income-based repayment and holding for-profits feet to the fire on gainful employment. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Oh look, another GOP proposal that attacks higher education and helps for-profit schools. http://theweek.com/speedreads/740213/house-republicans-want-cap-student-borrowing-overhaul-federal-loans-program 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

“this dramatic account required fact-checking of the caliber only The Onion can provide” https://www.theonion.com/the-onion-has-obtained-exclusive-information-from-jai-1820808638 🔄 1 👍 1 Original URL

@eric_hontz @lukebroadwater @justin_fenton True and I just learned Cross Keys was influenced by Disneyland. http://www.silive.com/opinion/columns/index.ssf/2012/09/disneys_epcot_at_30_an_unfulfi.html I swear I saw something where Walt Disney described his friend Jim Rouse developing a place like Epcot and calling it Columbia. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@eric_hontz @lukebroadwater @justin_fenton I hope it doesn’t take 40 years! I’m hoping we’re just in Baltimore’s own pre-Disney Times Square era 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Also, give them lots of candy…someday they won’t be able to eat it so they should enjoy it now. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

My professional-opinion holiday gift giving guide for kids: Lego, Meccano, 3D pens, cooking kits, robots you build, musical instruments, and/or an electronics lab. Give them the opportunity to build and be frustrated and succeed. 🔄 0 👍 7 Original URL

Dear @VolvoCarGroup Please take a page from @Jeep and create a brand new Volvo240 Wagon that stays true to its heritage and industrial design while updating for today. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @disnazzio: (Living in the bizarre space between “Baltimore is a dysfunctional ass mess that makes me angry all the time” and “Say one m… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@charmcitylwy @MarkLTomlin Ft McHenry was dangerous…. to the British. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@charmcitylwy Please don’t bring frozen breakfast sandwiches into this. 🔄 0 👍 8 Original URL

RT @SisyphusRedemed: @willsommer @chrislhayes Are we sure O’Keefe isn’t actually a liberal pretending to be a conservative pretending to be… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Everytime I put on my cold weather running gear, I feel like Mr Incredible in this scene. https://t.co/uc7H64p2TF 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

At some point, every #maker thinks “If I only knew how to weld…” 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@jeffbigham I don’t know how your network is set up but even though they could pull IPs and see “who” is printing, making you log in ties it back to your ERP software and they can allocate your share of the printer’s cost to your dept/unit. Source: I’m administration AF 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@jeffbigham @SCSatCMU You can’t think logically when dealing with Higher ed Finance. We’ve been told to cut sections of classes with 20+ students because the adjunct would cost us $3k. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jeffbigham @SCSatCMU MEMO From: CMU Finance To: Assoc Prof Bigham We see what you did there. Knock that shit off. Sincerely, Finance 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jeffbigham @SCSatCMU I’m pretty sure you lost the battle with your accounting office 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@YouCanBookMe You have been slowly removing features from free accounts for years. I will be switching away at the end of this semester. You should just abolish all free services and go 100% pay since your new free features are useless esp in education. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @CityLab: “Technology doesn’t necessarily trickle down to serve those folks who are most in need.” https://trib.al/v2bGLNY 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@mauricerkelly @doctorow @Palleas Many poor people access the Internet via mobile devices. See https://theconversation.com/many-low-income-students-use-only-their-phone-to-get-online-what-are-they-missing-54213 and the link to the Joan Ganz Cooney Center report 🔄 12 👍 13 Original URL

#chi2018 just called and said I’d PROBABLY be best paper but I’d have to do an interview and photoshoot. PROBABLY isn’t good enough so I passed. 🔄 0 👍 5 Original URL

If .@realDonaldTrump ’s FCC really want to do something to help hard working Americans, leave the Internet alone and drop the license fee requirement for GMRS radios and switch to “license by rule” like CBs, marine VHF, and FRS. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

#TurkeyTrot .@YCentralMD https://t.co/TYmTpMP1PZ 🔄 0 👍 4 Original URL

@jengolbeck @TheRock I’d also be happy being part of an amalgamated character that .@BonnieHunt_real plays 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Read whole thread for great journalism process. If it does become a movie, I’d like to be portrayed by the .@TheRock as “concerned citizen reading news” https://twitter.com/justin_fenton/status/933512529468362752 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@jengolbeck It’s The Joy of Cooking which is our one cooking reference. They didn’t recommend the cooler…that was us not having a big enough pot and (honestly) thinking “What would Alton do?” 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

CSI: Turkey https://t.co/ZJz9BWyTF2 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I’m running a TurkeyTrot to raise money for the .@YCentralMD . Please consider sponsoring our run: https://fundraise.ymaryland.org/fundraiser/1206916 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@twinforces @MrAlanCooper In Baltimore, I get places faster via transit because of no need to look for parking and if it’s rail,we go way faster than traffic. The monthly pass is less than cable and I walk more. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

What’s a Christmas Bonus? http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/boom-christmas-bonuses-to-jump-66-to-1797/article/2641472 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @swardley: Reminded of a past conversation … X: We’re going to spend $1bn on this effort. Me: I can deliver the same result for $20m.… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@costco Mondawmin Mall has an excellent location and accessibility to those with and without cars in NW Baltimore. Maybe you could invent a @costco express to replace the leaving Target. https://twitter.com/eric_hontz/status/933024592100319237 🔄 1 👍 3 Original URL

1-6 are currently on my desk right now. https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/929023237954121729 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@Mitlane @hulu @netflix On Netflix on Roku, there are lots of trailers as you scroll around. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I really liked Hulu’s Future Man. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Thanks for giving me free 25% off. #idonotthinkitmeanswhatyouthinkitmeans https://t.co/0uh99hQrbD 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @NPCA: Happening now: Park supporters deliver 1000s of comments telling @SecretaryZinke not to increase fees at our #NationalParks. TAKE… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Unpopular thought of the day: Online learning isn’t about convenience, it’s about access. Viewing online learning as something more convenient than face2face leads to you valuing it less than those that view it as a way to access something they couldn’t otherwise engage with. 🔄 0 👍 4 Original URL

#ubalt #ubux https://twitter.com/PalgraveCultMed/status/932957777185587200 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Winter is coming… https://t.co/BOml4ntK2l 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@citythatbreeds I’ll put the rest on a gift certificate 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

In a perfect world, we wouldn’t need cameras on every block. https://twitter.com/disnazzio/status/932698224498036737 🔄 0 👍 4 Original URL

Teaching 3rd graders about design thinking! https://t.co/tjOktkLSBi 🔄 0 👍 5 Original URL

@DrTerriC I don’t like this tax plan anymore than any other former-GA, but, this isn’t how you compute your taxes. It’s not a flat rate on the income. 0-45k taxed at 12% then 45k+ taxed at 25%. This tax bill would be ~ $14k. Still bad but we need accurate data for arguments. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

RT @FastCoDesign: The culture war being fought over tomorrow’s libraries https://buff.ly/2B6ck9B https://t.co/kGHiHcm57y 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

#UBalt Simulation and Game Design Program ranked #3 in affordable programs. http://www.affordablecolleges.com/rankings/affordable-online-bachelors-game-design-degrees/ 🔄 3 👍 3 Original URL

RT @Hosts4Humanity: Calling all hosts! A family of three needs two nights of housing in early Dec. Send us a DM if you can help. #volunteer… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@modtinker send me an email with your CV to gwalsh AT ubalt DOT edu 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Oh, and they’re online synchronous classes 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I’m looking for two adjuncts: interaction design and UX project management. Let me know if you are interested! 🔄 2 👍 4 Original URL

A group called http://Uni.xyz is having an #IxD contest called FUNKT for students and professionals but you must be under 40. The thought that good design born from reflective processes comes only from those under 40 is a bit ageist in my opinion. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

My take away from this article is to redo your subordinates’ work, make surprise visits, and keep teams separate https://www.fastcodesign.com/90150926/the-simple-idea-that-drives-creativity-at-amazon-airbnb-and-dell 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Tron Legacy is a pretty good movie. Unfortunately, Disney bought the IP juggernauts of Marvel and #StarWars and pretty much killed the Tron franchise. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @mashable: Actually, destroying Keurig coffee machines is good http://on.mash.to/2yWxdXv 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Super excited to see people destroying Keurigs! They’re bad for the environment, selfish, and institute DRM to make sure you buy their products. I think both sides of the political spectrum can come together on this (as long as the smashed parts are recycled) 🔄 0 👍 4 Original URL

@jmspool @CenterCentre Can students take out traditional student loans to attend your school? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I wonder why Baltimore isn’t in this group? Oh right, our elected leaders hate us. https://twitter.com/CityLab/status/930152538644582400 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Just because you download Unity doesn’t make you a #VR developer. https://www.fastcodesign.com/video/share/bkpMk6PX Has he seen #UBalt ’s game lab? 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

I’m super excited to go the Czechoslovakia meeting of the Geography Awareness Club! https://twitter.com/UMDLibraries/status/930118937861337089 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@willisgirl @mtamaryland I ended up taking the 94 bus on a lovely tour of Hampden 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Suspicious package at Woodberry stop so we’re just sitting on tracks in Mt Washington. .@mtamaryland 🔄 1 👍 1 Original URL

@lakemeadnps @NatlParkService @NellisAFB @usairforce @99ABWCC @Interior @GoParks @FireAviationNPS That’s really cool, thanks! “Ranger pilot” sounds like an awesome job title 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

RT @markbrani: Quite possibly the best video I’ve ever seen on the subject of user research. truly wonderful. http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/articles/what-is-design-research 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I was goofing around with Dialogflow and made a chatbot to answer questions about our #uxdesign programs at #UBalt http://home.ubalt.edu/gwalsh/chatbot/ Give it a try and let me know where it works and where it breaks! 🔄 1 👍 1 Original URL

Twitter knows me so well…I do like Action AND Adventure https://t.co/6wt3mxOpr1 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

They use Google+ https://twitter.com/paleofuture/status/928778349127680001 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @akaWorf: Flying to Boston with my Best Friend. https://t.co/RTeQzFa2L6 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@lakemeadnps @NatlParkService @NellisAFB @usairforce @99ABWCC @Interior @GoParks @FireAviationNPS Hi, crazy question: Do park rangers usually know how to fly before they are detailed to a park that uses aircraft or does that become part of the training or a skill they can work towards? 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

The best place to learn is at the University of Baltimore’s #UX Certificate or MS in #IxD & #IA http://www.ubalt.edu/cas/graduate-programs-and-certificates/degree-programs/masters-interaction-design-and-information-architecture/ https://twitter.com/UXPAPER/status/928799455524081666 🔄 2 👍 2 Original URL