Nathan Laundry's Blog


Hi, I'm Nathan. I write on:


Why is your website so plain???

I'm glad you asked.

I tried making it pretty before. I think I even succeeded. But, I spent so much time messing with CSS and making this fragile mess of code that I never actually wrote anything. So, I'm going to keep it ugly and actually write stuff this time ... I Hope.

Old Friend

This is a two parter - Return and Scorched Earth The first depicts the terrible calm of a relapse into depression The second is how it feels to weaponize anger to claw oneself out of depression If I’m being honest, I think the second part is the better of the two lol ## Return --- Welcome Home No one warns you How warmly she welcomes you How comforting and sober she sounds Read more...

To Fall Like Rome - Burning and Proud

Altar Salt my skin and soak my flesh These words are the altar upon which I sacrifice myself Burning and Proud Helen You’re divinity wrapped in the Old God’s best imitation of mortal flesh Your name - both spark and fan to the desires and ires of men And though Troy’s walls are long since fell Homer could scrawl the same ink recounting the battles that rage over you Read more...

The Terminal Velocity Quintet

Entrancing There’s music in your voice rhythm in your body and an elegant chaos in your mind I can’t imagine anything more entrancing than you with a story to tell Books if not your mind I shall read your books. I’ll live in the stories that crafted you Breathe in the fiction that forged your reality Assembling within me, your visage Character by character Line by line Word by word Read more...

Losing You for the Last

Too Much I learned to love like everything is on the verge of ending. Forgive me if I take too much today Forgive me if I need you to remind me you’ll be here tomorrow. Power The greatest lie I ever told myself is that I chose to give you the power to ruin me Search Today I searched you up again. Sometimes when I’m lonely I find an unsettling comfort Read more...

On the Edge of Yearning

Sparks Without you I’m like Flint Without the Steel No sparks Listen I listen to you like the world is running out of words and you’re its final act Breathe The taste of your words lingers on the air you breathe and I can’t help but think how lucky I would be to breathe that same air and press upon my lips those echoes of you Stare Brand me with your stare Read more...

Duty of Care

Burn The sun and all its siblings could fair no better in the gruesome work of burning my soul than the friction between our hearts as yours is torn from mine Duty of Care To have failed so in my duty of care in my guardianship of your heart I bear this penance of solitude to feel your pain as my own with no solace of companionship nor numbing agent Read more...

Burning

Fluent I’ve become fluent in the silence that comes before the storm Tip I still taste your name on the tip of my tongue each time I speak of love Look I craved your gaze so deeply that I pulled myself apart showering you in the pieces of me like a rose petal by petal just to piece myself back together in the image of the man I thought you wanted Read more...

Using A/B Testing as a Pedagogical Tool for Iterative Design in HCI Classrooms

Submitted to EduCHI-2023 Find it Here: PDF Abstract This paper explores the use of A/B testing as a pedagogical tool for iterative design in HCI classrooms and outlines a vision for experiment-inspired design. The traditional focus on the statistical aspects of A/B testing education has meant that the equally crucial role of iterative design embedded within the experimental process has not received commensurate attention. By incorporating iter- ative design learning activities that are scaffolded by A/B testing Read more...

How to Write your own HCI Related Works Section Template

Academia Writing
What you’ll find here My process for figuring out what to include in a literature review The template I built for writing future literature reviews So recently I had to write a literature review for one of my classes and I wanted to formalize my approach to doing so. I’ve been working on it for the past few days and thought I’d share what I’ve done so any new graduate students, like myself, can learn from it and hopefully share their own tips and tricks. Read more...

Ponder Walks and Wander Walks: Thinking on the Go

Productivity
👋 Hey Friends, So, I’ve decided to try to write more short articles. I’ve realized that my perfectionist tendencies have crept in once again and are keeping me from posting more frequently. I’ve got a backlog of ideas that I keep tinkering with hoping one day they’ll be good enough to share. This little article is the first in an attempt to share the imperfect. Here’s a little idea I had on walks and how they facilitate thinking. Read more...
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