Aaron 💭 @theartguy@scholar.social
he/him
Media Arts & Tech Teacher, Gamer (@Crash), Social Justice Paladin, Widower. 📷 🎥 🎙 🕹
Either I'm doing this right or I'm bricking my new (to me) laptop, and I won't know which until it's done.
Wheeee!
Voting is open for the 2018 PGCPS Film Festival!
Everyone can vote, even people outside of PGCPS!
YOU can vote once per day per category until April 11th! Show these kids how awesome they are!
Current stage of grief: Denial.
First time I've ever been told not to go to work because of wind strength alone.
Raspberry Pi Update:
Had to edit a config file using the terminal but it's now on the school's WPA2 Enterprise Wi-Fi.
Browser choice is limited to Chromium, which school Gmail says is no longer supported. Attempts to install Firefox, Iceweasel, and even Chrome have all failed, in part because the files needed are no longer there.
Managed to apt-get Arduino, though, so I'm not completely hopeless at installing additional software...
Today I had my students pick what would be on the rubric for this week's video assignment. It was messy, but I'm cautiously optimistic. https://scholar.social/media/E46tosEPup7sY2xlx44
YouTube made some changes. Turns out policing the little guy doesn't scale well.
This may be a good business decision on Google's part, but I predict an increase in Twitch streamers for gaming content.
For non-gaming content... is there a place for them?
Facebook video is worse.
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Find yourself someone as happy to see you come home as my cat is to see me.
Two evening Winter Concerts at school this week have left me at a state of fatigue that coffee is not fixing, but today I get to teach animation to 1st grade and light painting to 4th, so there's that.
https://scholar.social/media/v6cMI9uQ11TMh-h4CD8 https://scholar.social/media/wK4J9vzFtzZB0qDKTPg
My supervisor and her supervisor are coming to watch me teach today, but it's only an informal observation so I should be fine, right? https://scholar.social/media/NL76fuBv1AnSXxghdj8
Today feels rough and it isn't 6:30 yet. Time for an emergency sleepy kitty.
His name is Socket and he likes to play fetch.
Use responsibly.
Chrome, that is not scholar.social. I am not quite sure why you think it is. https://scholar.social/media/3ys57NUKttKmEh7LnuA
I stayed at the BEST hotel last night. https://scholar.social/media/NnLy6Vk34_P7TDu0oQs
YouTube, this is not Hurricane news. What are you doing? Go home. https://scholar.social/media/lHr0p9Qp4rXjUVhEvWY
Well, on the bright side, my family no longer has to put up with me telling stories about how my cat is dying from breast cancer.
Goodbye, Binx. I wish I could have done more for you.
https://scholar.social/media/ClAjEcZUg9iBnjVcQoQ
We all suffer from wear and tear. It shows us who we are.
https://aaronbsmith.com/photos/2017/06/30/old-building-textures/ https://scholar.social/media/P_E056fTnsm0ZAt3X3E
Say what you will about large corporate entities, Gmail's spam algorithm is top notch.
(For the record I pay for YouTube Red and love it... just not on the account shown.) https://scholar.social/media/yvM28d4Oerk791G4_l4
Birds love the feeder I put out for them so much that they go to it even if I'm just a few feet away. If I get my camera out, though, they fly off. This is the best shot I can get that isn't through a window.
https://aaronbsmith.com/photos/2017/06/25/morning-bird-watching/ https://scholar.social/media/VI-nUDHF1bhwILcxmgA
OK, I think I have IFTTT set up so that any time I post a link on Mastodon it ends up on Twitter. https://scholar.social/media/8uq0Pr8iBjEzYJJoo68