For a long time, I thought I had “ordi­nary” depres­sion. It was ter­ri­ble at times, though I man­aged to func­tion. My first bout of it was in fifth grade, and I would deal with it every cou­ple years after that.… Read moreliv­ing with a mood dis­or­der

For three years before this one, I cel­e­brat­ed July 31st with a friend who loves Har­ry Pot­ter much like I do. After mov­ing to Utah, I was sad about not cel­e­brat­ing with her, but I found friends here who love… Read moreHar­ry Potter’s Birth­day

I attend­ed PyCon a few weeks ago, and it was a won­der­ful expe­ri­ence. I met lots of inter­est­ing peo­ple, heard great talks, and got inspired to get back to pro­gram­ming. One thing I encoun­tered from mul­ti­ple peo­ple is a lack… Read morethe ben­e­fits of man­u­al test­ing, episode 1

I’m test­ing some ven­­dor-sup­­plied soft­ware, and I’ve been test­ing a vari­ety of func­tions and inte­gra­tions. I’ve been more delib­er­ate in my test­ing on this project, less mon­key-at-a-key­board and more cre­ative think­ing about how it might be bro­ken. I’m test­ing things… Read morea doc­u­men­ta­tion argu­ment

Carl and I went to a screen­ing ear­li­er this week of Code: Debug­ging the Gen­der Gap. I did­n’t expect it to be a great film (too many film fes­ti­val awards), so I was pleas­ant­ly sur­prised when it turned out to be… Read moremovie review: Code

Thrilling Thurs­days are where I will share things that get me excit­ed. This could be music, knit­ting, or, as it is here, Har­ry Pot­ter! I’m going to Leaky Con in Octo­ber with a friend, and I’ve decid­ed to cos­play for… Read moreHar­ry Pot­ter cos­play

It’s Wild­card Wednes­day! It’s a mag­i­cal day when any­thing can show up here. This week, it’s just a video of what my dogs do when I start warm­ing up my voice at home. It can be a lit­tle dis­heart­en­ing, par­tic­u­lar­ly… Read moremusi­cal dogs

It’s Test­ing Tues­day! Let’s talk soft­ware test­ing! To start, soft­ware test­ing is find­ing weak­ness­es in soft­ware that, when fixed, make it a bet­ter prod­uct. Soft­ware testers don’t break soft­ware, they expose how it’s already bro­ken. It is rather fun to… Read morejob and train­ing

I’ve been think­ing a lot about the way we inter­act with oth­ers and how we per­ceive our­selves as inter­act­ing with oth­ers. I, per­son­al­ly, think that I am nor­mal­ly charm­ing, wit­ty, and engag­ing, par­tic­u­lar­ly when I have a full night of… Read morecon­ver­sa­tion and emo­tion

Maybe not strict­ly week­ly, but here’s this week’s edi­tion of what I’ve been read­ing, play­ing, and think­ing! The New York­er had an inter­est­ing piece last spring on police shoot­ings in Albu­querque. The vio­lence direct­ed at civil­ians by cops is far… Read moreweek­ly roundup — Feb­ru­ary 19th