Summer notes
It’s almost mid-July already. This has just been the loveliest of summers, with everything taking on a calm warmth. I had been traveling a lot (this year so far: Lagos, London, NYC, Blacksburg, a quick...
View ArticleMastering Mobile
It’s 3:30am. The team I’m a member of, The Blue Shakamakas, just won a quiz. I came up with the Shakamakas part of the name: it reminded me of when I was eight or nine, and my younger siblings and I...
View ArticleOut on a disorderly artistic limb
For my most recent birthday, some of my friends presciently gave me a sketchpad. Although I thought nothing of it at the time, I recently took a break from bag making to return to my first love: art....
View ArticleHow I learned computing Part II
In my freshman year, I took Intro to Programming, Data Structures, and Computer Fundamentals courses under the Department of Systems & Computer Science. The knowledge from gap-year hours I had...
View ArticleAs Good As A Feast
Put a few hundred teenage girls together in an institute of learning, and there are bound to be some comedic moments. One was how in Yoruba class, a key topic of Yoruba Proverbs would be tested on...
View ArticleSummer nights
I’m currently with one of my favorite people in a part of the world where it’s always summer weather. Today we went to see a play, not my fp’s first show, but there were some scary bits where eyes had...
View ArticleAddressing the Commonwealth’s Virtual Currencies Working Group
Last week, I visited London to address the Virtual Currencies Working Group of the Commonwealth on bitcoin and other digital currencies. Digital currencies are interesting to me because they are new...
View ArticleHow I learned computing Part III
In addition to IDEs and hitting ‘compile’ or ‘run’, I soon began to be introduced to non-programming aspects of computer science like e-commerce and the attendant web development, web data analytics,...
View ArticleBack to the ease of film
If I asked you how you tell a good photo, or a professionally-taken photo, it’s likely you would answer that it must be sharp and with the right areas in focus, and if you were a bit artsy you might...
View ArticleMinku in Harper’s Bazaar
I like the part of this text that relates to Minku so much that I will be creating a bookmark of it here. Thanks to Lauren Alexis Fisher, Andreas Zendejas, and Jaclyn Alexandra Cohen for characterizing...
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