Monthly Archives: April 2020

Improvised Remote Instruction Tools

During the first week and change of our vast national COVID-19 induced remote teaching experiment I made some notes on practices and improvised some equipment that has proved useful, and seems worth sharing with others.

This two week period I’ve primarily been running lab sessions to help my herd of mostly-Sophomores do and get sign off for a digital design lab exercise using Verilog to implement state machines, adapted slightly from our usual lab at this time in the semester.

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Is It Time for Americans to Embrace the Bidet?

Source: NYT > U.S.

Article note: I installed an under-seat bidet in my apartment a couple years ago and I'm never going back.

In the United States, people are hoarding toilet paper and clogging sewer systems with wipes of all kinds. A little water could solve their problems.

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