Kevin Werbach, Andy Phelps, Jennifer Hinton’s nose, Liz Lawley, Constance Steinkuehler This is my second year at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco. I got the chance to fly out early to hang with family before the conference begins today. I have the privilege of hanging out with very smart, sociable and thoughtful people. Smart and thoughtful are not necessarily the same. One can know quite a bit without …
It should all start slowly, without alarm. Creeping light makes the world go from black to blue. California is a crazy place. At Tita Do’s house I could walk outside and pick a lemon. Had a pomelo for the first time. Dulce packed up oranges and pomelos for me to take. I eat one and watch the light change, rising to the surface from the depths.
External memory temporarily wiped. New day, new blog software. Expression Engine was okay for a while (8 years), but I found it’s prone to attacks, and I didn’t have the skillz required to customize scripts. I have 8 years worth of blog posts and comments and a metric pantload of spam to prune. I’ll ask my geek friends to help me get the stuff back, but in the meantime… Oooh! …
The Basco Balikbayan Project: A Journey To Our Roots by lady basco — Kickstarter.
When I was eighteen, me, my sister, Elice, and my cousins Karen and Kathy went to spend the Summer in California. The west coast cousins and Titas and Uncles welcomed us as if we’d never left. It was home. There’s something magical about leaving your awkward teenage identity and arriving in a sunny place where you get to be this person you wanted to be, or who others think you …
