Kyle Matthew Oliver

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  • Hacker Within Meeting Friday

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    I doubt I have too many UW-Madison computer geek readers who don’t already know about this (if indeed I have any at all, which is also doubtful given my dire posting record of late), but on Friday at 2:15 in 414 Engineering Research Building, the Hacker Within computational science interest group that a few of…

  • Worlds colliding

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    So, my friend and colleague David Meerman Scott has a new book coming out. As you can see, he’s collecting pictures of the promotional poster hanging in people’s offices, etc. I sent him my contributions today and just had so share, such was the glory of the juxtaposition. The first is boring old me sitting…

  • It’s hip to be genuinely square

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    Just in case the blogosphere fails to produce any non-election-related material today (an absurd notion, of course, but do me a favor and grant the damn premise), I wanted to pass along an article my friend Erica posted recently: “Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization.” Don’t get me wrong, I hate the “oh, kids…

  • Miscellaneous Updates

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    Let me surface from my digital dormancy (which one of these days I’ll get around to writing a post to explain) for a couple of quick updates. First, I went with some other UW-Madison folks to UW-Platteville Friday for a conference of the North Midwest region of the American Society for Engineering Education. We didn’t…

  • DFW

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    Clark Terry apparently once said “Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.” I’ve felt the same way, since being introduced to the latter by a teacher and friend of mine a few years go, about Douglas Adams and David Foster Wallace. In Wallace I found another author unafraid of the bold, if…

  • They Can Fly Under Doors!!

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    I improved my batting average/Graydon Number/bat wrangling quotient to 2 BW in 4.5 BE (0.444) tonight. However, the incident was not without some startling revelations: (1) My bedroom door is not protection enough. Seriously, I knew one was out in the hallway earlier, but I cleared its escape route (the bathroom opens out onto a…

  • Kyle Oliver: Bat Wrangler

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    For those of you who don’t know, I now live at a church. An old church. One with bats. I’ve decided the best way to cope with this less-than-ideal aspect of my otherwise wonderful living situation is to have a little fun with it. Watch my Twitter feed (reproduced at right and on my Facebook…

  • Ned Yost Is A Big Honkin’ Doofus

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    What the hell was C.C. doing batting in the eighth (and then pitching a long ninth) with such a huge lead last night? I know we’re probably not going to be able to keep him, but we still gotta get him through hopefully a couple months’ worth of baseball yet. Don’t get me wrong, the…

  • Writing Center Summer Institute

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    I got an email yesterday that the Writing Center Summer Institute, which is being held at UW-Madison this year, has a blog up and running. If you’re familiar with writing center scholarship, then you know those names over in the “contributors” column are some of the best and brightest in the field. I’ve been exceedingly…

  • Gainin’ On Ya! All Up Around Your Neck

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    The Cubs are in first place, in case you haven’t heard. The Brewers are in second, “but that’s a temporary condition too”: To each his reachAnd if I don’t cop, it ain’t mine to haveBut I’ll be reachin’ for ya‘Cause I love ya, CC.Right on. Ain’t it funky, Chicago? (Or how about “J.J.? C.C.; C.C.?…