Meta on Parker Adey

About the Office Camera

Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:35:05 -0500

There is a webcam in my office that I use to take photos of the whiteboard. This setup was inspired by Dror Bar Natan’s Blackboard Shots. If you know of anyone else with a similar setup, please let me know.

Parker's Virtual Business Card

Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:23:40 -0500

The page linked on my business card.

Week Notes 26

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:00:01 -0500

Back to work after the East Coast.

Tri-Campus Mathematics Education Meeting 2025

Thu, 26 Jun 2025 14:45:23 -0400

Thoughts about organizing a one-day retreat.

Bookmarklet: Quote to Markdown

Wed, 14 May 2025 16:01:21 -0400

Convert a quote on a webpage to markdown.

Excited About the Internet

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 08:31:53 -0400

RSS, e-mail, and conscious consumption.

Now turns in to Then

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:03:50 -0400

I stumbled across a couple people who have archives of their old now pages. I like the idea of archiving these as a sort of diary, or change long.

Week Notes

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:55:00 -0400

These week notes are a series of weekly posts.

Matt Webb has a good pre-history of week notes.
Russell Davies has a nice Wired piece about The Structure of Time and why a weekly rhythm is nice.
Doing Weeknotes by Giles Turnbull

Iceberg Website

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:29:38 -0500

A website can have visible and invisible parts much like an iceberg.

Link Not Found

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:13:20 -0500

Ooops! The link that you clicked doesn’t seem to lead anywhere. This happens occassionally on a highly inter-linked website like this one. Some links go to drafts which have not been published yet. Some material gets moved or deleted. There is a large part of the website that is invisible intentionally.

Plant Diary Question

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 06:49:58 -0500

Do people maintain plant diaries?

Pedagogy Group Reflection

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:45:12 -0400

The best exam that I ever took.

Topics of Interest

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:49:30 -0400

A list of recurring topics of interest. It’s weird.

Blog

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 12:02:49 -0400

This blog is for more informal writing which I don’t intend to revise or edit. It’s just day-to-day stuff, quick updates, or ephemeral writing. For more formal writing, see the notes.

What to Do If You Think I Might Be Dead

Wed, 26 Jun 2024 09:11:43 -0400

What to do if you think I might be dead, who to contact, and some thoughts about why that matters.

Overthinking Blogging

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:58:50 -0400

Thoughts about why it is so easy to overthing blogging.

Now

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:14:50 -0400

This page describes what I’m up to now. It is a written version of what I would say that I am doing if we met and you asked me what I am up. This page was inspired by Derek Siver’s now page movement.

Winter 2025

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:14:50 -0400

Teaching
- I’m currently teaching the following courses:
  - MAT A29: Calculus I for Life Sciences
  - MAT B41: Techniques in Multivariable Calculus I
Learning
- I am reading various things.
  - Esperanto: working my way through the prose section of La Baza Legolisto.
  - A little bit of the Bible.
- I am writing up the projects that I worked on during sabbatical.
Parenting
- Mabel, our younger daughter, is doing well.
  - She is walking and running confidently.
  - She is just about to start talking.
- Mira, our oldest daughter, is doing well.
  - She is enjoying junior kindergarten at Joseph Brant Public School.
Playing
- My current hobby is loop-braiding.
- I am growing african violets in my office.
- I am finally getting the hang of five ball juggling.
- I am indexing old volumes of my journal.

Reading RSS with newsboat and sfeed

Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:23:12 -0500

How I use newsboat and sfeed to generate a static page of RSS feeds that I follow.

Meta Blogging

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 08:32:41 -0500

This note collects various references related to blogging. Why people blog, how to blog, etc.