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Jennifer Morton
I was trained to be an Industrial Engineer but decided coding was more fun.
I work on a mix of Ubuntu and OS X machines, coding in Python, Javascript, Ruby, and Java.
I recently moved from Atlanta to Boston.
My passions are:
Sci-fi/Math/Comics
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Posts
Series of female mugshots from the 1960s. (via)
How great would it be if they were all in a gang together?
#Eyebrows
Throughout the ages, people always make the same faces in their mugshots. The eyebrows have calmed down a bit…
“Repeat Rape: How do they get away with it?”, Part 1 of 2. (link to Part 2)
Sources:
- College Men: Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected Rapists,Lisak and Miller, 2002 [PDF, 12 pages]
- Navy Men: Lisak and Miller’s results were essentially duplicated in an even larger study (2,925 men): Reports of Rape Reperpetration by Newly Enlisted Male Navy Personnel, McWhorter, 2009 [PDF, 16 pages]
By dark-side-of-the-room, who writes:
These infogifs are provided RIGHTS-FREE for noncommercial purposes. Repost them anywhere. In fact, repost them EVERYWHERE. No need to credit. Link to the L&M study if possible.
Knowledge is a seed; sow it.
These baked eggs look incredible, and are ripe for endless variations!
Yes I will be making these delicious things soon.
Photo: Nigel Treblina/AFP/Getty Images
Allcreatures is killing it with the cute baby animals for Mother’s Day.
Thanks for the responses ladies! That backs up what I’m seeing.
So I recently came across this website, Elite Daily. It calls itself “The Voice of Generation-Y.”
The link I stumbled on was to an article titled “The 10 Things Women Need to Realize in 2013.” OK. Let’s check this out…
OH, BOY. What the fuck is this? The first photo attached to the…
Well this guy is a massive misogynist and definitely deserving of public shaming. What a tool. I can’t believe “Elite Daily” is actually a site.
- Ladies. Please help me settle a dispute.
Let’s say you want to learn to program. Would you be willing to go to a user group with 85+% dudes? Or would you be likely to stay away? Would you be more or less likely to attend a group that is all women?
Hello Boston ladies! I’m starting a chapter of PyLadies right here in Boston. If you are a current or aspiring Python programmer come join us! If you’ve been thinking that learning to code might be pretty cool, also come join us!
Along with all of the other rising inequalities we’ve become so familiar with — in income, in wealth, in access to politicians — we confront now a fundamental inequality of accountability. We can have a just society whose guiding ethos is accountability and punishment, where both black kids dealing weed in Harlem and investment bankers peddling fraudulent securities on Wall Street are forced to pay for their crimes, or we can have a just society whose guiding ethos is forgiveness and second chances, one in which both Wall Street banks and foreclosed households are bailed out, in which both inside traders and street felons are allowed to rejoin polite society with the full privileges of citizenship intact. But we cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.
Chris HayesTickets just went on sale for 2013! This was the best event that we went to last year. If you can make it to New York and love cheese, this should not be missed.
We saw Jeremy Messersmith last night at the Sinclair. It was excellent and I managed to record almost the whole show. Enjoy!
Going to see him tonight! If you haven’t listened to Jeremy Messersmith before, check this out.
The image posted to Reddit with the caption ‘My friend’s hedgehog was mistreated by her original owner, and was always sad; looks like she enjoys her new owner plenty!’.
Look at this hedgehog. Look at it. Bet you’re smiling
AWWWWWWWWWWWW
Apparently Julian Treasure has been giving quite a few TED Talks on noise pollution. What really interested me was how ambient noise affected worker productivity:
If you can hear someone talking while you’re reading or writing, your productivity dips by up to 66%. Open floor-plan offices distract workers without them even noticing it. In a classic studypublished in the British Journal of Psychology in 1998, researchers found that employers were highly distracted when they could hear conversation around them, and less able to perform their duties. Another classic study found that noise in the office also correlated to increased stress hormone levels and a lower willingness to engage with others. According to Sound Agency case study, when sound masking technology was used in an office, there was a 46% improvement in employees’ ability to concentrate and their short term memory accuracy increased 10 percent.
My best work environment was sharing an office with one other person. We could chat if we needed a break or ask questions, but mostly it was pretty quiet. I always feel a little jumpy in cubes, but what I really dislike are open office plans. It seems to be becoming more the norm in the tech industry, but maybe studies like this will change that.
In the aftermath of Monday’s Boston Marathon attack, a heaving pile of junk information clouded the breaking news reports. Casualty figures were botched, the number of explosive devices was misreported, and suspects were wrongly identified. On that last front, one of the families deeply affected by the press and public’s false conclusions was that of Sunil Tripathi, a 22-year-old Brown University philosophy student who went missing on March 16.
The Tripathi family’s ordeal collided with the Boston bombings shortly after the FBI released images of the two suspects late Thursday. Reddit and other popular social-media platforms, already abuzz with theories of suspicious characters caught on camera near the bomb sites, embarked on a mission to ID the two young men. One of the young women who went to high school with Sunil thought she recognized him from one of the photos released by the FBI. Redditors also picked up on the supposed likeness, and by the evening Reddit and Twitter (on which “Sunil Tripathi” would soon trend worldwide) had exploded with the theory. By about 7:30 p.m. EDT, the Tripathi family began to be flooded with calls, Facebook posts, and harassing emails raising the allegation. The family suspended the Facebook page at around 10 p.m., flagged the messages, and reached out to law enforcement agencies, including the FBI.
“The hardest part of this was how far from any actual evidence there actually was, and how quickly and how painfully this traveled.”
Many national and local reporters caught wind of the Reddit-powered theory, and by Friday morning roughly a dozen news vans had parked themselves at the Tripathi residence in Radnor eager to question the family. (All of this, even though Sunil’s Tripathi’s name was never once mentioned on the Boston police scanner prior to the initial suspicions on Twitter.)
“We were hoping the Boston investigation was advancing fast enough that it would publicly prove what [my family] all knew,” Sangeeta Tripathi, Sunil’s sister (a 2004 Brown graduate who now works as an NGO public health professional), tells me. “The hardest part of this was how far from any actual evidence there actually was, and how quickly and how painfully this traveled…We find it incredibly unfortunate that media outlets were so quick to jump without checking with authorities, but we hope they use the same energy and intensity they showed in the past 24 hours to really help us find Sunil.”
The moderator of the “FindBostonBombers” subreddit page (going by the name “Rather_Confused”) released a statement apologizing: “This event shows exactly why the no personal information until confirmation rule is in place. Out of respect for Tripathi and his family, I ask that users here please remove any and all links about him.”
I asked Sangeeta if her family had yet received any apologies from news organizations whose employees (including BuzzFeed and Politico) helped push the erroneous ID. “No, we have not,” she says. “Apologies have been limited to particular individuals and a few network-based responses, including the Reddit apology.”
Asawin Suebsaeng, “My Innocent Brother Was Made Into A Bombing Suspect: Sunil Trihpathi’s Sister Speaks,” Mother Jones 4/19/13
Colorlines reported today that Rhode Island police identified Sunil’s body off the coast of Providence. The family issued this statement:
(via racialicious)“As we carry indescribable grief, we also feel incredible gratitude. To each one of you-from our hometown to many distant lands-we extend our thanks for the words of encouragement, for your thoughts, for your hands, for your prayers, and for the love you have so generously shared,” the note continued.
“Your compassionate spirit is felt by Sunil and by all of us.”
“This last month has changed our lives forever, and we hope it will change yours too. Take care of one another. Be gentle, be compassionate. Be open to letting someone in when it is you who is faltering. Lend your hand. We need it. The world needs it.”
This story is absolutely heartbreaking.
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- @jmessersmith I recorded almost all of last night’s show if you want a copy.
- @jmessersmith Virginia, please!
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Repositories
- Working from daz4126's I Did It My Way Sinatra Cookbook - http://ididitmyway.herokuapp.com// Pushed Apr 23, 13
- Opinionated project skeleton with recipe/script for rapid deployment to heroku.6 forks / 11 watchers / Pushed May 18, 13
- Padrino is a full-stack ruby framework built upon Sinatra.330 forks / 1778 watchers / Pushed May 16, 13
- Nokogiri (鋸) is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser with XPath and CSS selector support.268 forks / 2115 watchers / Pushed May 15, 13
- PyLadies is a group of women who use and love the Python programming language. Our goal is to expand the local Python community to be 50% women.42 forks / 40 watchers / Pushed May 07, 13
- An open-source kit for starting your own PyLadies chapter in your city. PyLadies' mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community through outreach, education, conferences, events and social gatherings.16 forks / 18 watchers / Pushed Apr 30, 13
- Classy web-development dressed in a DSL (official / canonical repo)749 forks / 4865 watchers / Pushed Apr 26, 13
- Our Slides, Documents, pdf's and all that good stuff from each meeting.1 fork / 2 watchers / Pushed Oct 18, 12
- A web-scraping framework written in Javascript, using PhantomJS and jQuery64 forks / 445 watchers / Pushed Jun 18, 12
- An expansion on the Twitter Client 'badge' from pystar.org2 watchers / Pushed Dec 13, 11
- Tutorials on how to use Pyechonest with our API2 forks / 21 watchers / Pushed May 15, 11
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- Jul 17, 12
Sorry I’ve been slacking. Though I haven’t been writing, I have been doing a crap ton of cooking. Usually I use recipes, but last night I winged it and it turned out fantastic. Here it is:
Ingredients:
1/2 lb pasta (I used linguine, but any type will work)
1 lb chopped kale
1 lb bacon (try to find nitrite free if you can)
1 cup vegetable broth
1 tsp crushed red pepper1) Cook pasta, put it to the site
2) Chop up bacon, about 1″ slices. Put bacon in large skillet and cook over medium-high heat.
3) When bacon is mostly cooked, start tossing in kale. Fill up the pan, let it cook down a bit, then toss more in. Put as much as you can fit in your pan.
4) Once kale is mostly cooked down, add vegetable broth and red pepper. Stir for two minutes.
5) Add pasta, cook for 5-8 more minutes on medium, stirring occasionally.
6) Eat it all.
- Jun 28, 12
I made this Spinach, Bacon, and Blue Cheese Quiche from La Phemme Phoodie. I felt inspired to do make it after going to a cheese festival and trying Rogue Creamery’s Caveman Blue. Picked some up from my local cheesemonger (hey @TimtheCheeseman!) and went to town making this quiche (while listening to the sweet tunes of The Polyphonic Spree). I followed her instructions exactly with one exception: I made it crustless. Same cooking time worked for me, I just got to skip making/cooking the crust. Turned out PRETTY GREAT. I also made quick mango empanadas. I got lazy on making my dough, so I just bought whole wheat biscuits, flattened them out, and put some pureed mango in the middle. They looked ok, but it’s hard to taste bad when you are mango and a biscuit.
- Jun 06, 12
I based this off Smitten Kitchen’s Zucchini and Almond Pasta Salad. I say based off because I took some of her suggestions of alternate additions and it ended up looking completely different. Mine was probably more salad and less pasta.
Ingredients:
1 bag arugula (5 oz)
4 zucchinis
2 Tbsp salt
1 small red onion, diced
1 cup slivered almonds
1 lemon
7-8 Tbsp olive oil (I used a mixture of EVOO and regular)
1 small container of crumbled blue cheese1) Preheat oven to 300.
2) Wash zucchinis, cut in half, then thinly slice. Put them in a colander and mix with the salt. Let sit for 20 minutes.
3) While those are sitting, cook the pasta.
4) Put almonds in a pan and stick in the oven for 4 minutes, stir, then put in for another 4 minutes.
5) In a small bowl, mix the olive oil and lemon with as much pepper as you want.
6) Run pasta through some cold water to cool it down.
7) Mix everything together and enjoy.Sidenote:
I mixed some of the blue cheese with some scrambled eggs because I firmly believe that eggs are appropriate for every meal. It was all awesome.
- Jun 04, 12
First: I love kale. Second: even more than kale, I LOVE lamb. I was hoping for more of that merguez when I went to the farmer’s market this past Thursday. No merguez, but they did some some Asian Spiced Lamb Crepinettes. What is a crepinette? Apparently it’s just a small, flat sausage. And Spotter Trotter makes amazing sausages.
Ingredients:
1 pack of asian spiced lamb crepinettes
1 bunch of kale (I used dinosaur), ripped to small pieces
2 Tbsp fat (coconut oil works great for this recipe)
soy sauce1. Grab an oven safe pan. Preheat oven to 275 degrees.
2. Toss half the oil in the pan, preheat on stove at about 5-6/10.
3. Cook crepinettes in the pan for about 3 minutes per side.
4. Put the pan in the oven for about 10 minutes.
5. Take it out, put the crepinettes to the side.
6. Toss in the rest of the fat plus the soy sauce. Add in the kale.
7. Cook until kale is mostly wilted. Chop up the crepinettes and toss in.
8. Cook for a few more minutes until kale is fully wilted.I also got some raw milk and remade the creamed chard and spring onions, this time without pasta. Delicious! Also, I’ve been buying my veggies from Patchwork City Farms and need to give them a shoutout. Fantastic locally grown veggies from Southwest Atlanta.
- May 29, 12
Eggs are the greatest. I love making hashes and pastas and just topping it with eggs. I also used to do the crazy paleo thing. When I did, this was definitely my favorite thing to eat. First time I made it, I think I had to use Italian sausages because that’s all Publix had. Dekalb Farmer’s Market has some pretty good Moroccan lamb sausages, but nothing near what I got from Spotted Trotter at the EAV Farmer’s Market. I’m differing from the original recipe a bit because I just sorta used what I had.
~ 2 Tbsp bacon fat
1 pack of Merguez (Moroccan Lamb Sausage, ~ 6 links)
3 cans of artichoke hearts, quartered
Eggs1. Toss bacon fat in large pan. Let it melt.
2. Toss sausage in pan. Cover and cook on medium high for about 10 minutes. Sausages should be mostly cooked.
3. Take sausages out and slice them, then add them back to the pan. Reason: you want the sausages to cook in their own spices at first. Some of the spices will seep out, so the bacon fat should be a nice red color at this point.
4. Drain the artichoke hearts, then add them to the pan. Cook for about 15-20 minutes, or until soft.
5. Perfect sunny-side up egg: I’m awful at poaching eggs (it’s a disaster!), so I lightly fry mine sunny-side up. Sub instructions:- Grab a tiny pan. Put a small amount of some sort of fat. I used bacon fat, feel free to use butter, olive oil, whatever.
- Warm over medium heat (~6 out of 10). Toss a small amount of water into the pan.
- Crack the egg over the pan and cover.
- Keep checking for the whites to cook, but it should take ~ 5 minutes
6. Pour hash into bowl, top with perfect egg. Eat and your life will never be the same.
- May 29, 12
I linked to Erin’s blog the other day (ok fine, I’ll do it again) for the suggestion of using raw milk in Smitten Kitchen’s Creamed Chard and Spring Onion. I hopped on over to the EAV Farmer’s Market on Thursday hoping to snag some and… they were totally out. No worries because I still got some rainbow chard and spring onions. This experiment in awesome? STILL ON.
1 1-pound bunch rainbow chard, thick stems removed and leaves sliced into ribbons
3 spring onions, ends trimmed, white and some green parts sliced into thin coins (I had 4 small ones)
2 cloves garlic (just kidding, you should use even more)
4 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup milk
3/4 cup half & half
1/2 lb of pasta1. Wash and then cook the chard in a pan for about 6 minutes. I umm… sorta burnt my chard because I was trying to cut onions while cooking chard. Don’t do that. The chard needs to be stirred fairly frequently.
2. I burned my chard so there was no excess liquid! But I did put it aside in a nice bowl:
3. Cook your pasta.
4. Heat the milk and cream on low in a small saucepan. Again, still frequently.
5. Dump the butter in a large pan, melt, then add the onions and the garlic, cook on low heat, ~6 minutes. Prepare for your kitchen to smell amazing.
6. Add flour and whisk for about 3 minutes. I used a whisk, but I feel like this is overkill. A wooden spoon should also work quite well.
7. Add milk/cream mixture slowly, whisking as you pour it in. Cook for about 4 minutes.
8. Add the chard, continue stirring, and cook for about 4 more minutes.
9. Toss in pasta, maybe add some salt and pepper.Y’all… this was awesome. I put in an order for raw milk so I’m hoping to make it again this weekend.
- May 23, 12
I did make the crunchy hummus wraps with the roasted jalapeno hummus. But I was in such a hurry to finish before my folks got in that I forgot to take pictures. Sadness indeed. Luckily both recipes were quite simple. For the hummus wraps, I ended up with crappy arugula, so I didn’t have enough to make them really full. They were still delicious, but needed way more arugula. The hummus on the other hand…
- I need to get another cast iron skillet. I tried these on my stainless steel skillet. Sorta worked? But cast iron would have been better.
- When she says “roast until charred”, that definitely is necessary. Mine weren’t fully roasted, so I couldn’t skin them.
- I used a mortar and pestle instead of a food processor. It was awesome.
- Microwaving the chickpeas helped it be a bit creamier, but I wish I had added a bit of the extra water from the can of chickpeas (~1/8 cup). The hummus was a little dry for my tastes and I’ve found this helps.
- I like spicy foods. I wish I had put in all three jalapenos instead of erring on the side of caution and going with just two.
Overall? Success. On Friday, this is going down: Creamed Chard & Spring Onions.
- May 15, 12
This week has been slightly crazy so I actually have not cooked anything (NOOOOO). But… it’s beer fest time on Saturday, so I need a nice healthy lunch to get my body ready for the abuse I’m about to put it through. I’m planning on making Crunchy Hummus Wraps with Jalapeno Hummus. Join me in spicy veggie awesomeness!
- May 10, 12
Originally from: http://www.biggirlssmallkitchen.com/2010/05/cooking-for-others-my-noodle-obsession.html
I also have a bit of a noodle obsession. When I saw this on BGSK, it looked easy enough to make for a quick Wednesday night dinner for the boyfriend. It was both a good decision and a bad one. Bad in that it took sorta forever (about an hour total). Good in that it was super delicious. I’m altering BGSK to reflect what I actually put in the dish.
Ingredients
1 large bunch thinly sliced scallions
3 small pieces peeled, grated ginger
1⁄4 cup grapeseed oil
1 1⁄2 teaspoons soy sauce
3⁄4 teaspoons rice wine vinegar
palmful of kosher salt
12 ounces somen noodles
1 large eggplant, cut into thin slices
4 radishes, thinly sliced
2 carrots, peeled, thinly sliced
4 heads of bok choy1) Definitely have to start the pickling first. For every cup of sliced radishes/carrots, add 1 Tbsp of kosher salt and let sit for 15 min to an hour.
2) Put the eggplant in a separate bowl and toss with kosher salt. Let this sit for 30 min to an hour.
3) Mix together the scallions, ginger, oil, soy, vinegar, and salt in a bowl. I was sorta lax with the soy sauce and vinegar and just splashed it over, estimating the amount. Probably needed a bit more soy sauce. Let it sit for at least 15 to 20 minutes.
4) Add salt to water and boil. Once it boils, toss in the bok choy and cook for 3 minutes. Fish out with a slotted spoon.
5) Cook the noodles. With somen noodles, it takes about… 3 minutes.
6) Eggplant… I cooked it earlier, and I ended up with cold eggplant. So do this at the end. Toss the eggplant with some olive oil and cook it in a skillet. I didn’t have a cast iron, so I heated up a stainless steel skillet on medium high and cooked the eggplant in that. It ended up taking about a minute to two on each side, about three rounds.
7) Toss the dehydrating carrots/radishes with 1-2 Tbps of rice wine vinegar and a palmful of sugar. Add both to taste.
8) Add it all together! I didn’t want to add a whole head of bok choy, so I tore 4 leaves off.End result: I think it could’ve used a bit more salt and ginger. I thought one of the huge pieces would’ve been too much, but I feel like that was a faulty assumption. Somen noodles? Definitely the best noodle choice. I do think I should have added some oil to the noodles when I first took them out of the water because they definitely stuck together.
- May 07, 12
The goal of this to post recipes with detailed instructions and pictures so that anyone can follow along. The recipes will all be doable as long as you have all the supplies… won’t be anything too complicated. If the original recipe is difficult, I will be finding a workaround and give you the results.
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Specialties: Linux CLI, Regex, Python, Ruby, Javascript
Experience- Nov 2012 - PresentSoftware Developer / Quartz Labs
- Nov 2012 - PresentContractor/Developer / TripAdvisor
• Wrote Ruby/JavaScript scrapers to automate comparison of API data to live site data, crawling the page using PhantomJS and parsing the returned data using Nokogiri.
• Developed adapters for partner APIs to connect to the TripAdvisor main site using Java and the Play framework
• Performed required manual tests on the live site in order to whitelist the returned responses - Mar 2011 - Nov 2012Delivery Engineer / MailChimp
• Coordinate anti-abuse efforts with compliance team
• Develop python and bash scripts to find abusive users
• Write and maintain set of regex rules to combat spam
• Created wikis to enable effective onboarding and education across the company
• Analyze user data within SQL database to get insight into customer activity - Jun 2010 - Mar 2011IT Developer / The Home Depot
• Managed workflow project for transportation invoice submissions and approvals
• Worked with DBAs on the SQL database design
• Wrote the test plan then performed unit and QA tests
• Deployed to production
• Maintained communication between Business and IT teams - Sept 2009 - Apr 2010Assistant to Principal Consultant / Schultz Consulting Group
- Ran errands to facilitate everyday operations.
- Jan 2009 - Aug 2009Intern: Consultant / RedPraire Corporation
• Tested pay rules as part of the implementation of labor management software
at major grocery chain
• Tested improvements made to labor management software, ensuring it met
contractual requirements - Jan 2008 - Dec 2008Student Assistant / Enterprise Innovation Institute
· Developed database to facilitate comparative analysis of twelve international OSHA Standards for recommendation of a common standard
- May 2006 - Dec 2007Co-op: Technical Services Specialist / Conversion Technology, Inc
• Performed environmental inspections at customer facilities to ensure their compliance with federal and state regulations and prepared reports.
- May 2005 - Aug 2005Intern / Applied Genomics, Inc
· Compiled database of tissue samples
· Scanned tissue arrays into computer for future study
· Stained and cover-slipped slides of cancerous tissue samples
Education-
2005 - 2010Georgia Institute of TechnologyBSIE in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Activities: IIE, WREK, Marching Band, Club Ultimate Frisbee, Co-op
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Honors:2005 National Merit Scholarship Finalist
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Interests:computers, soccer, frisbee, my dog, volunteering
