Alex MacLean (@alexmacl) profile picture

PhD student, Computer Science, Brigham Young University

Provo, UT
Joined February 2010
Bought a sledge hammer. 30 minutes later the credit card company called with a fraud alert. Male ego bruised.
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This is why #anonReview sucks. It's not to protect junior reviewers, it's to help unreasonable senior reviewers stomp on junior authors.
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If Netflix ran a dating site: Since you're interested in women you might also enjoy men, body pillows, or dying alone.
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Just because a man *can* do without a table saw, doesn't mean that he *should*.
Trailer for Pixar's Planes is out. Great nods to the aviation community throughout. youtu.be/HjcPOZ_z3Ts
Gamification: yet another sometimes useful, oft overused buzzword. Also, Scott Adams is a genius. feedly.com/k/14iHfcH
I love the fact that we can talk about the "dead" and "undead" in an academic/research settings. #msr2013
Fred Brooks's "No Silver Bullet" seems to be popular this morning. #msr2013
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#msr2013 keynote is standing room only. Perhaps I should have gotten up earlier. Theme: workers really matter.
Social media becomes much more appealing when traveling by myself and unable to be...social.
Yay! Drunk partiers on BART at midnight! Welcome to San Francisco.
Verizon pushed an update to my phone. Went from "device I want to hit with hammer" to moderately snappy. Well played Verizon, well played.
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."—Lincoln
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If the stock market nose dives over a fake tweet, you don't blame Twitter or AP. You should blame the stock market for being full of idiots.
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Residents of town in Texas fertilizer plant fire go home, as police find no evidence of crime. fxn.ws/11c0sdh via @foxnews
Almost home from #ease2013 with @cdknutson. Great conference and sight seeing. VERY hot.
"@cdknutson: Still marveling over egg and spinach breakfast muffins on the plane. Who thought this was a great idea?!" - No one who ate it.
Recife to Rio to Atlanta, and now on to Salt Lake City.