Giant This past Friday, I had the chance to see "Giant," the play written by Mark Rosenblatt. A few friends asked for my take on social media so I thought I'd write my thoughts up here. So, if you're looking for the usual CS Ed or Emacs material, feel free to skip this one. On the other hand, I'd encourage you to read on anyway. First and foremost, the play was fantastic.

THe Netlogo Center is running their first in person conference at the end of June in Chicago (info and registration). It's an event I'm looking forward to attending and also to be presenting at. I've been using NetLogo for over a quarter of a century. Well, that's not entirely true. I haven't actively used it for a while now, being retired, and for my last gig, at Hunter College, I used it sparingly.

This past Friday I ran a third iteration of Pitchfest. The first one was last may (link). I also ran Pitchfest in the Winter but that one was smaller. We had 36 students forming 17 teams from 9 CUNY campuses. We also had a bunch of tech professionals. There were more entries that we couldn't accomodate but the 17 teams along with the tech professionals basically filled the room to capacity.