This is taking the place of the old #general channel (the way permissions are set up meant that was the only channel I could restrict to admin announcements, thus the move)

It’s a bit funny how the channel permissions work. I saw Slack groups that had an #announcements channel and I was really confused about how that worked. Until it all clicked :simple_smile:

/giphy party time

Well isn’t that an unwelcome intrusion of ego.

Hmm, maybe a channel that would let people show off what they’re/have been working on would be nice?

Related: @literature_geek http://infiniteulysses.com looks very interesting :simple_smile:

@stefan: Thank you!

general question about slack: if I star somebody’s post, do they know it? does it function a bit like ‘favourites’ in twitterspace?

@shawngraham: did you see my favorite?

nope: which I guess answers the question!

https://vine.co/v/e9rxqKjPtja

there’s kind of an amazing proliferation of channels

I’m just glad we have one for :goat:

Who’s all going to DLF next week?

Not me – kinda wish I were

:raised_hand:

Can I just say: *@&%)@#!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbxmsDFVnE

yes @jheppler, you can say that

got my tickets wooo

Dec 19, 10am

I plan on disconnecting from the world between the premiere and that time

hcayless!

I am not even watching that trailer

WATCH THE TRAILER @amandafrench

/giphy seltzer

Yo no comprendo.

seltzer = MTM

see, I learn something every day

/giphy gopher

is there a why?

or how?

i should’ve typed seltzer = MTM?!? @paregorios

ah, ok, good

My gopher giphy worked great

/giphy why

/giphy I know, right?

/giphy hit or miss

/giphy #magic8ball is Ethan Awesome?

damn

I am so glad we all have tenure otherwise there would be no excuse for this

/giphy tenure

LOL

/giphy speak for yourself

wow

yike

omg

/giphy madness

/giphy make it stop

/giphy foot in mouth

Also flees ¯_(ツ)_/¯

/giphy #magic8ball will this ever stop?

ಠ_ಠ

I’m interested in dataflows and toolsets for managing and exploiting personal reading streams. So: Pocket + Zotero? Stuff like that? Worth a channel?

It seems as worthwhile as the other channels that have been created so far - could it be framed more broadly though, e.g. #bibliography?

@fmcc yeah, I’d have thought so

you know one of the things I love about code4lib? Zotero-ready metadata in the articles.

/giphy it just works

I’ve been meaning to write GradHacker article on reading workflows that include Zotero, I’m interested

@galarzaalex: cool! #bibliography is now open for business

happy birthday @paregorios

/giphy happy birthday

thanks @captain.primate

https://twitter.com/bobdively/status/656846571355566080

/giphy clap

all in a wednesdays work

this is the best thing i’ve seen on the internet this week

ha! there are other notable competitors I would submit for consideration, namely this https://twitter.com/VGAdvisor

Slack keeps telling me what a lovely day it is (to be a productive cog in the capitalist machine)

/giphy hell yes

http://media.giphy.com/media/3oEdv108s7P7k55io0/giphy.gif

@mdlincoln I changed up all those messages in my class’s version of slack. Filled it with a whole bunch of Jack Handyish stuff.

@shawngraham: would be fun to somehow extract a set from something approximating the DH zeitgeist, but that’s clearly another rabbit hole

https://media.giphy.com/media/l41lVBIE7nbWfztQs/giphy.gif

/giphy letdown

Hi everyone, I hope you’re all having a great weekend!

Just a quick question, does anybody know about a website/community with volunteer translators?

https://github.com/botwiki/botwiki.org/issues/63

Thanks in advance!

@stefan

/giphy facepalm

Anyway, @stefan, I know WordPress uses voluntary translation. They’ve been doing it a long time, but they still have to work at it. HTH

@triplingual: Thanks, hmm, why facepalm, though?

Also, anyone, what’s the signup link for this group again?

Ah, found it https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1u9CE8vV7ac8-OK2n8roiURvWoO0dpQuzNBWMOaaRXik/viewform

Can we get a nice $0.99 domain that redirects here? :simple_smile:

@stefan: invite others: http://bit.ly/1jI8VUx (i’ll set this as the introductions channel topic so it’s someplace we can easily find)

@stefan: that would be cool. i’m sad the crazier TLDs cost more

i tried to register dh.center once but realized two-letter domains are superpremium

digitalhumanities.club?

Hmm, doesn’t http://bit.ly, or perhaps some other URL shortener allow you to customize the short URL? That might be a good start.

And yeah, I hate domain squatters, I really do. Registrars really shouldn’t allow this.

I still can’t believe I was able to snatch http://botmakers.org and all the other bot-related domains I acquired lately. I guess this is still an underground niche :simple_smile:

@stefan Facepalm was for hitting return too quickly. Decided to GIF it rather than delete it.

@triplingual: Ahhh, I thought I said something funny :simple_smile: Got it.

Check out this rudester on the Zotero forums – man, what a jerk. https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/54219/serious-problems-in-word-zotero-is-deeply-flawed-unreliable/

I keep being tempted to say so to his “face,” but, well, you know. Don’t feed the trolls.

@amandafrench: yup, I think all that can be said to such a one has been said

Interesting feature, here, that any link is auto-described. Here’s a description of the philosophy and technology behind that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

(is there a #general channel?) i’m looking for a well-curated twitter feed that links all the hottest posts on the fullest range of dh

i’m staggered by how many twitter lists use the ‘d h’ description

@timfinnegan: Honestly I think that’s Digital Humanities Now - http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org

this one seems to redirect all links to dangerous/ spam: https://twitter.com/dighumanities

@amandafrench their content is okay, but their tweets always hide the real url and their descriptions are too opaque for an outsider like me

/giphy wednesday

I should have expected that.

TFW reviewers wish you had done a completely different study than the one you actually did

/giphy rage

I can’t tell if this is #on-topic or #off-topic https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/

Screenshots from developers & Unix people (2002) > In 2002, for http://Unix.se, I asked a number of developers/Unix people for screenshots of their desktops. Sort of like a crude usesthis.com-style thing. Here’s what I received.

Classic rms - “I don’t know how to make a screenshot, because I normally use my computer in text-mode. I have X and GNOME installed, but I use them only occasionally.”

I used to run an automator script that would automatically take a screenshot once a day and then archive it. this was c 2007. really happy I did it; they’re already interesting. (a bonus feature was to open up photo booth, so there’d be a picture of me at the time included in the screenshot)

related: https://github.com/mroth/lolcommits

@brfidler: Lifeslice is related: http://wanderingstan.github.io/Lifeslice/

stan’s talk about is pretty good too: https://vimeo.com/42239564

@beau: Very interesting, thanks!

@brfidler: no prob :simple_smile:

Relevant to all programming: https://twitter.com/BobRossGameDev

“If a script that was fine before now stops working, that’s just it’s way of letting you know it misses you and wants to hang out again.”

So, the Humanist listserv (http://dhhumanist.org, btw, if you’re not signed up) is awesome, but I don’t read as much of it as I’d like because the formatting is difficult to visually scan: no HTML anchors for jumping down, separations between messages don’t jump out at me, and I’d like to hide some of the info I’m not interested in regularly seeing (email headers and signatures).

I know you can switch between two options using the listserv admin to get different topic headings in separate files, but that isn’t completely what I’d like to see. Before I play around with scripting a different view for myself, am I missing something obvious/easy? (I haven’t thought about changing the display of emails landing in my inbox before, so I probably am!)

(I guess I’m wondering if there’s an easier way than locating the email file on my server and running a Python script over it each morning—automating that, or maybe finding the online archive version of the email and creating a Greasemonkey script for when I visit the page? Or maybe I’m overthinking this and there’s already a nicer version available…)

@literature_geek: if you want an automated way to run filters on your email, you might look at procmail, or I guess maybe maildrop since procmail apparently isn’t being maintained anymore. http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/maildrop.html

@suttonkoeser: Thank you!

Any DHers excited for Fallout 4 next week / want to chat about the game (teaching possibilities, history, whatever) in <#C0CNZACG6> while playing?

Heck yes.

is this ps4, xbox one, or both #importantquestions

The game itself runs on all three, I think.

very good

/giphy celebrate

hrm, I just finished Fallout 3

i guess I’m a bit behind

and does anyone play video games on PC anymore?

@mcburton: Yes - I’m swithering about whether or not to get a new graphics card for Fallout 4

fairly confident that my current machine won’t run it happily, but I just don’t have the energy for the endless comparing of pc part specs

@fmcc: my machine is very old and I’m debating on just getting a PS4 and stepping of the r/buildapc bandwagon

yeah, my PC is hooked up the the TV already - i’m not sure I could justify another box cluttering up the place

Im leaning ps4 as well

Just looking at it there, the ps4 is still about double the price of a new GPU here

I guess the advantage of upgrading my PC is I can still play all the previous gen games on same platform rather than missing everything on PS3

@mcburton: I’ll be playing on a PC hooked to TV screen

@literature_geek @fmcc: what do you use as a controller when connected to TV? (Presume couch instead of desk with keyboard/mouse)

@mcburton: Yeah, I have the Xbox controller for PC

@mcburton: I’ve been using keyboard + mouse on a wooden lapboard. (While sitting in a recliner—it is a kind of ridiculous setup!)

luxurious

http://f.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/slideshow/2015/10/3052273-slide-s-1-this-sit-stand-desk-also-fully-reclines.jpg

http://www.gadgetify.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/29/racing-small.gif

@fmcc @mcburton Those are awesome setups!

I attended a CIC (Big10) conference on graduate training in the humanities and praise for @literature_geek and her work came up at least five times. :star:

@galarzaalex: Aww thank you! That’s so cool to hear

Yep! It was a bright spot in a somewhat disappointing three day conversation

“disappointing” is a spectacular understatement

Care to share what made it somewhat disappointing?

@captain.primate: probably has a list but for me the main ones were: 1) 3 of the 60+ participants were grad students and only a few more were early faculty. 2) Frustrating format that yielded little concrete actions or directions 3) General unwillingness to entertain the idea that scholarly communication and tenure/promotion process need to be reformed

actual quotes: “Publishing a monograph has always been hard, it’s not any harder” “A good dissertation will always be published”

on the positive side, I met some great people who are working for change and there was a general consensus around communicating humanities scholarship to a broader audience

endless whiny handwringing and childish rhetoric

:frowning: sounds like this summer when someone informed me they’d never hire someone for a TT job whose dissertation was structured as a series of articles rather than as a full monograph.

:disappointed: “I don’t take graduate students whose projects won’t work as books, because that’s not what I’m in the business of doing”

seriously I wanted to scream

http://imgur.com/gallery/71CbY

/giphy waiting

OMG, the compassion (and the lack of reality check) https://digitalhumanities.slack.com/archives/off-topic/p1447081566000035

In a meeting recently, where I was the sole representative for DH - and therefore lightening rod - one fellow yelled ‘bullshit! this is all bullshit! you’re bullshit!’ and stormed out of the room. Some folks are a) shitty people b) scared of the world.

WHOA

ew.

i hasten to point out this didn’t happen in my home department.

(didn’t paste animated? huh?) http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view6/2621891/you-re-out-of-order-o.gif

bummer @shawngraham, real bummer. In one of the conference sessions someone said “I keep hearing about digital humanities this, digital humanities that… what is digital humanities? What’s the big deal?? I don’t even know what that means!” and looked around the room like this was supposed to elicit laughter…

<shakes head>

/giphy wednesday

Hey folks. As part of the Institute for Digital Archaeology Method & Practice (http://digitalarchaeology.msu.edu), all attendees have to invision, build, and launch a digital archaeological project. In order to support this, the institute assigns them mentors from either the existing faculty or the broader digital scholarly community. I’m having a devil of a time finding a good mentor for one of the projects (you can read about it here: http://digitalarchaeology.msu.edu/robust-open-flexible-and-offline-digital-data-collection-in-the-field/). They want to use the http://wq.io framework (which is python+javascript-based). The kicker is that there isn’t someone among the institute faculty who has a confident level of expertise to act as a mentor. The good thing is that I’ve got funds to offer honoraria to people outside the institute to be mentors on projects. Not a huge amount, but its something ($750). Anyone hereabouts interested?

@captain.primate: on a vaguely related note, I’ve had a grad student use the https://opendatakit.org to build an app for recording sound re oral history. I have no experience with it though (the student has yet to write that part of his work up yet). So - are there folks here who have?