Author: samuelhansen

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Waiting for Zoomdot

There once was a meeting on Zoom,

as silent and dark as the tomb.

The host sat in the void,

feeling mainly annoyed—

she forgot about that waiting room.

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Dropped from the record

Image of a crying white woman's face wiht long brown hair and her left hand on her face with the text over it that reads "Conducted a long interview" on top and "Forgot to hit "Record"" on the bottom

I was interviewing someone for a story, and they had a lot of insightful ideas and experiences to share. Unfortunately, I neglected to double check my device and not a word of it was recorded.

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boxed in

Image of a text document with two black boxes over words in the upper left one followed by Justice and the other followed by English Class with a paragraph of text below that reads By the time students begin high school, they will have been attending English class, or some derication of a reading and writing class, since Kindergarten. And while students must study English along with the other core subjects of history, math, and science in middle school. . Then in red text added it reads "Finally got the black boxes to go away--returned as soon as I saved the document."

Finally got these black boxes to go away–They returned as soon as I saved the document and sent it to the patron. (I was able to get help and fix it permanently later!)

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You can pry our textbooks from our cold dead hands

The he's probably think of other women meme image of two white people in a bed, the woman on the left on her side with her face turned toward the man and the man with his back facing her looking pensive. Text over the womans head reading Me: I can help you find open or licensed text books. Text under the man's head Faculty: Does anyone hear someone talking? No? Good, now I can go back to thinking about that expensive textbook I make students buy every semester.

One on one, over email, in meetings, no matter where or how I raise the topic of changing to open or licensed textbooks with the faculty I support all I ever get is a room full of crickets.

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Key note

Image of a key hanging on a wall with text under that reads I lost the vault key under the dumbwaiter

I lost the vault key under the dumbwaiter

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archive of destruction

Torn up newspaper on a desk with letters on paper cut out over them that read: I tore a historical newspaper

I tore a historical newspaper

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The Proxy is Down

Image of the back of a classical sculture of a person sitting on a pedestal overlooking the city of Barcelona with a fountain in the center and downtown behind it and then residential areas before a tree covered hill in the background

That moment in your carefully planned database session when you realize the PROXY SYSTEM IS DOWN and you can’t even navigate to the database much less show off how cool it is.