Comments on: In Need of Comfort

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:44:18 +0000

Softdrink, thanks! The book is continuing to be great fun. I hope you enjoy it!

Jeane, I think you would. It is a lot of fun.

Judy, it’s a fun book. Thanks for the link. Love your blog title btw

Litlove, I am thinking of establishing a flirtation with Hesse at the moment. Enjoy Mentors! You might have to get Sleeping in Bed too

uncertainprinciples, HCI is interesting and I have been looking forward to the class. For some reason it’s got me a little off balance though.

Rebecca, it is hard to go wrong with essays about reading. I am enjoying the long weekend. I hope you are too!

Dorothy, I didn’t know Hesse wrote essays let alone how good they are. I’m going to have to look for more. Thanks for the good wishes.

Verbivore, I agree, there are few things as comforting as books about books.

Maire, thanks! And the book is going along swimmingly.

Isabella, indeed. Unfortunately all weekends come to an end.

Cam, I’ve never had trouble being in small groups of techie people but I didn’t expect there to be so many in this class for some reason. I think you are right about there being different ways of thinking and about the stereotype. And thanks for the suggestion to ask lots of questions. It has been my experience too that really techie people love to share their knowledge, but for some reason I forgot that!

Danielle, it probably is going smoother than I think, I just am hesitant to trust that for some reason. Definitely look for this book at the library. It will go wonderfully with your essay reading project! I hope you had a nice day off too. We’ve not had too much fog but we’ve got air quality warnings out. No wonder my allergies have been bothering me.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:41:17 +0000

Good luck in your class, it does sound challenging, but I bet it’s go much smoother than you think. I may have to check out that essay collection since this is my year to read more of them. Hope you had a nice day off and haven’t been dealing with all the fog we’ve had.

By: Cam

Cam — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:57:19 +0000

I understand your fish-out-of-water feeling in your HCI class. I work in technology, but approach it from a business-process perspective, not a tech one. I get looks like I have 3 heads and am speaking a dialect of ancient Egyptian from programmers all the time. But, by asking lots and lots of questions, I learned the techy side. Still after many years of prgrammings, my approach is different than many of my peers – I think it is a way of thinking, rather than an accumulated body of knowledge. There is an over-abundance of people of a certain personality type being techies — it isn’t just a stereotype and I think it is one of the reasons that there are so few women in IT. But, one thing that has helped me is that many tech-oriented people love to share their knowledge, so ask them questions and soon you’ll be noticing those design flaws everywhere without even having an assignment.

By: Isabella

Isabella — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:28:17 +0000

Sounds like you have a wonderful weekend ahead!

By: Maire

Maire — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:18:46 +0000

“People who are readers form a sort of secret society in plain sight. We are like the priests of old who knew just how powerful and magical reading is.”

I loved this line! I hope you enjoy all those essays just as much.

And for what it’s worth, it’s possible that light switches are just as important as jet engine switches.