Daniel Rough
Lecturer in Computing at University of Dundee! 💻👨🏫 Doing HCI research. Scottish. Metalhead. Cheerful Goth. Tamer of haggises. Impostor academic. Occasionally irate. Fuelled by coffee/chocolate/whisky. ☕🍫🥃. he/him
- A nice fully Mexican cocktail this evening to muffle the world's horrors. Hope you all have a lovely weekend, and of course, Salud! 🥂
- This week's lab puzzle! (Adapted because they had to search for the letters through the lab sheet). Can you solve it? "psettrocnries" (unencrypted) Erneenatr gurfr yrggref gb znxr n pnxr (gjb jbeqf). Jurer qbrf vg bevtvangr sebz?
- Fun fact! You should use the Alt key when you want to change the function of other pressed keys. You should use the Alt Gr key when you want to change the function of other pressed keys, but you're a bit angry about it.
- Put a wee hidden puzzle in last week's Databases lab sheet. One student had it done 10 minutes in! Can you tell me the answer? You will win an intangible prize 😎 Zkdw lv wkh rqob XV vwdwh wkdw grhv qrw frqwdlq dqb ohwwhuv iurp wkh zrug "Pdfnhuho"?
- Reposted by Daniel Roughtime to repost this
- we've written about this in the past firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
- My current mood's drink of choice is any beverage from a company that doesn't treat its employees like shit. 🤮
- Email beginnings: "Hi Daniel," = probably no worries "Dear Daniel," = possibly screwed up "Daniel," = definitely screwed up "Dear Rough, Daniel John," = predatory publisher "Esteemed professor, " = worse predatory publisher "Dear David, " = high-up prof who doesn't give a fuck 😅 #AcademicSky
- Apologies for being completely irrelevant but I thought this is a fact you might like to know 💜
- Ended up calling it "Mrs Doyle" to allow me to get on with work, but will seriously consider your lovely suggestions as a future name!
- A good number of students turned up to my 9am lab session in the wind and rain, which was heart-warming. But the fact that one lad consumed TWO King Bombay Bad Boy Pot Noodles for his breakfast before 10.30am is surely deserving of some sort of gastrointestinal award 👏
- My boss today: "Do you know why the 1st years are obsessed with toasters?" Me: "Well funny story..." Am sort-of an influencer 😆
