{"id":407,"date":"2006-12-14T09:38:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T14:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=407"},"modified":"2006-12-14T14:42:02","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T19:42:02","slug":"itssuper-nic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/12\/14\/itssuper-nic\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s&#8230;Super Nic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/wp-content\/images\/Mcphee.jpg?w=840&#038;ssl=1' alt='Super Nic!' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve been blessed (?) with students feeling a bizarre urge to draw pictures of me and (perhaps more importantly) share them.  This is one of the earliest of these gems, produced by Joe Sandin in my intro computing course about <strike>10<\/strike> 8 years ago.  <a href=\"http:\/\/danflies.com\/\">Dan Flies<\/a> (who had also been in that class) recently poked Joe for an electronic copy, and shared, so you all get to bask in this multi-reflected glory.  Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>This reflects those heady days when I still wore suspenders (also documented <a href=\"http:\/\/unhinderedbytalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/11\/07\/nearly-10-years-ago\/\">here<\/a>).  I much prefer them to belts, but unfortunately had to abandon them when I blew a disk in my back in 1999.  I suspect that I could start wearing them again if I stopped carrying 6 to 8 pounds of loose change, pens, and other crap in my pockets, but that&#8217;s not likely to happen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And while I do own (and wear) two <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CodeWarrior\">Code Warrior<\/a> shirts (a fine and mighty compiler back in the day), I&#8217;m fairly certain that I never lectured in a cape in that class, and I usually wore socks&#8230;<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve been blessed (?) with students feeling a bizarre urge to draw pictures of me and (perhaps more importantly) share them. This is one of the earliest of these gems, produced by Joe Sandin in my intro computing course about 10 8 years ago. Dan Flies (who had also been in that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/12\/14\/itssuper-nic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s&#8230;Super Nic!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-6z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":504,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/03\/05\/drumming-with-joe\/","url_meta":{"origin":407,"position":0},"title":"Drumming with Joe","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"5 Mar 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Joe Alia (playing sax on the left) and I play together at UMM's Open Mic Nights whenever we both manage to be there, but usually without any real practice or preparation since we never seem to have the time for either of those things :-). It's really quite wonderful, actually.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":514,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/03\/13\/preparing-for-the-big-concert\/","url_meta":{"origin":407,"position":1},"title":"Preparing for the big concert","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"13 Mar 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Misty, originally uploaded by Unhindered by Talent. Sub-Evil Boy and I went over to Joe Alia's house Sunday to practice as part of preparations for the big concert Sub-Evil and I will be hosting in 3.5 weeks. 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