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Nice article about Hackademia from UW Today! - Alexis Hope from Bookmarklet

Michael, I feel like I've been doing too much of that lately! :) - Alexis Hope

Are you going to Denmark? - joey

maybe! depends on $$$ :) - Alexis Hope

Congratulations; I'm so proud of you! - joey

Beautiful campus, that. I worked in an office building just a couple blocks away, and often ran along the Lake Michigan shoreline path on my lunch hour. It's hard to top a setting like that (except perhaps in winter when the winds are blasting.) - jkram|ɯɐɹʞɾ

Wait, was it super cool? I'm totally jealous. Was the guy from Tucson there or did he just loan the thingie out? - joey

it was super interesting. i started looking at the tools they use and stuff... and the idea of collecting in general is interesting - Alexis Hope

"How and why do non-experts contribute to innovation? The conflict between expertise and innovation sits uneasily in academia, where the enterprise hinges on doling out official credentials. But a lack of expertise can in fact drive people to create the kind of disruptive technologies that really are game-changers." - Alexis Hope from Bookmarklet

"Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how people see the world in environmental, social, and political terms. We are activists, educators, technologists, and community organizers interested in new ways to promote action, intervention, and awareness through a participatory research model." - Alexis Hope from Bookmarklet

"Today, Ms. Terry is part of a growing movement to unlock medical secrets by empowering patients to gather, control and even analyze their own health data." - Alexis Hope from Bookmarklet

"Members of this loose collective of amateurs, who call themselves "health hackers" and "citizen scientists," also perform their own analyses and use the Internet to create and run experiments and clinical trials. They all believe that too much science happens behind closed doors." - Alexis Hope

I've been doing that for 18 years *chuckle* - Michael W. May

"Don’t Go Back to School is a handbook for independent learning that shows you how to learn almost anything without school. If you’re thinking about going back to school or about the possibility of self-taught learning, read this book first!" - Alexis Hope from Bookmarklet

"The passionate learners in this book have taught themselves subjects like programming, history, writing, design, art, engineering, business, languages, philosophy, and many other skills, trades, and disciplines. They’ll tell you what they know about learning and show you how they’ve done it. " - Alexis Hope

"Today’s demonstrations will impact us. While we cannot officially speak for every worker who shares our occupation, we can use this opportunity to reveal what it’s like to walk a day in our shoes for the 110,000 of us in America whose job it is to be a port truck driver. It may be tempting for media to ask questions about whether we support a shutdown, but there are no easy answers. Instead, we ask you, are you willing to listen and learn why a one-word response is impossible?" - Alexis Hope from Bookmarklet

"We see the library as not being in the book business, but being in the learning business and the exploration business and the expand-your-mind business," he says. "We feel this is really in that spirit, that we provide a resource to the community that individuals would not be able to have access to on their own." - Alexis Hope from Bookmarklet

An old article, but very helpful in understanding regional variation in healthcare costs. - Alexis Hope from Bookmarklet

Thanks, I haven't read this. - joey

I want to project club. - joey

you should come!!! you are totally welcome. every tue/thurs at a rotating house (usually in cap hill) - Alexis Hope

I AM MOVING IN. I AM BRINGING BELLA. - joey

we'd love to have you both :) - Alexis Hope

Haha, she was sitting on my lap when I said that, so I have to bring her ;) I bet she'd rather move in with Jake, though. - joey

I have no idea what this is about but I'm laughing anyway. - joey

Oh, and Bella says 'meow' to him. That might mean 'hello' or 'I miss sleeping on your face'. - joey

"Was computer programming a “black art,” a legitimate science, or an industrial discipline?...What was the appropriate relationship between technical expertise and other, more traditional forms of social, political, and organizational power?" - Alexis Hope from Bookmarklet

"Dimensions takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are. Type in your postcode or a place name to get started." - Alexis Hope from Bookmarklet

Welcome home! - Anne Bouey

thanks! :) - Alexis Hope

Wow, if you need help packing or anything let me know! - joey

i don't think so--i can't handle crowds very well! - Alexis Hope

Congrats! One year down! - Anne Bouey

thanks! :) - Alexis Hope

*high five*!! - Derrick

pretty awesome! http://www.facebook.com/group... - Alexis Hope

How was the research trip? - Anne Bouey

Okay, let's go to Remedy. Where do I find this action figure!? - joey

Looks very professional. - Anne Bouey

thanks :) none of us had made a documentary before so it took a long time! - Alexis Hope

"The story of Seattle's forgotten soul and funk scene of the 1960s and 1970s" - Alexis Hope from Bookmarklet

A low-cost ultrasound system is on its way to Uganda in early summer. Produced by students at the University of Washington, it's intended to help midwives battle the high death rate in the country's rural areas. - Alexis Hope from Bookmarklet

What? - joey

they closed phoenix because of storms so we had to turn around. but we made it! :) - Alexis Hope from iPhone

Oh boy! I'm glad you made it safely! - joey

"The UW device consists of an ultrasound Interson probe that connects via a USB port to a netbook with a touch-sensitive screen. It is designed to be cheap, portable, durable and easy to use. The work builds upon previous work done by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis." - Alexis Hope from Bookmarklet

How did I miss this? This is not the one we talked about, is it? - joey

this was the first one that we worked on in July :) Since then we've done two more, but don't know if they were accepted or not. - Alexis Hope

the UW made a video about our ultrasound project...check it out! - Alexis Hope from Bookmarklet

maria bamford show. too good. - Alexis Hope

Potato burritos? - joey

yeah, matt makes the best ones! bake some chopped up potatoes and then fry them a little with onions & garlic. mix with beans and corn and tamari and sriracha. yum! - Alexis Hope

I could do that, but I think you should convince Matt to make me one, too. YUM. - joey