Nick LaLone
@nicklalone.com
Geospatial computing, user studies, continuity planning, workforce development, and vintage tech.
I sit between ideas, products, and disciplines to find an answer that most would not.
I sit between ideas, products, and disciplines to find an answer that most would not.
I often wake up, regardless of day, hoping for a beautifully quiet amount of snow to be on the ground. Much like that eternal hope, I remain hopeful that at some point in my life that the world will stop fracturing and begin to heal.
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I often wake up, regardless of day, hoping for a beautifully quiet amount of snow to be on the ground. Much like that eternal hope, I remain hopeful that at some point in my life that the world will stop fracturing and begin to heal.
i've flipped from doing research to wanting to build technologies, make them better.
It fits with some frustration lately as I find myself wanting to teach toward independence in design industries rather than how to fit into them due to downturns
Might be time to think about a career shift.
It fits with some frustration lately as I find myself wanting to teach toward independence in design industries rather than how to fit into them due to downturns
Might be time to think about a career shift.
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
i've flipped from doing research to wanting to build technologies, make them better.
It fits with some frustration lately as I find myself wanting to teach toward independence in design industries rather than how to fit into them due to downturns
Might be time to think about a career shift.
It fits with some frustration lately as I find myself wanting to teach toward independence in design industries rather than how to fit into them due to downturns
Might be time to think about a career shift.
This is sort of a function of my dissertation defense where Jack Carroll said to me that i'll fit in in academia because I like to have my head in the clouds.
He wasn't wrong but I started to get frustrated by crisis informatics and its lack of grounding.
Spent so long in #emergencymanagement.
He wasn't wrong but I started to get frustrated by crisis informatics and its lack of grounding.
Spent so long in #emergencymanagement.
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This is sort of a function of my dissertation defense where Jack Carroll said to me that i'll fit in in academia because I like to have my head in the clouds.
He wasn't wrong but I started to get frustrated by crisis informatics and its lack of grounding.
Spent so long in #emergencymanagement.
He wasn't wrong but I started to get frustrated by crisis informatics and its lack of grounding.
Spent so long in #emergencymanagement.
I didn’t think High Fidelity could have a sequel but I’m witnessing one manifest right now.
November 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I didn’t think High Fidelity could have a sequel but I’m witnessing one manifest right now.
In automating social science and creating socio-technical systems, we ended up cleaning the data so much that the socio- disappeared.
It's still there but no one remembers the variable names.
It's still there but no one remembers the variable names.
October 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
In automating social science and creating socio-technical systems, we ended up cleaning the data so much that the socio- disappeared.
It's still there but no one remembers the variable names.
It's still there but no one remembers the variable names.
All I can picture in my head is this scene from High Fidelity.
three men are standing in a record store talking to each other .
ALT: three men are standing in a record store talking to each other .
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:25 PM
All I can picture in my head is this scene from High Fidelity.
I really wonder if they’re finally leaving the CAD software they used for mindstorms finally.
October 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I really wonder if they’re finally leaving the CAD software they used for mindstorms finally.
I am waiting for messages but have a holiday avatar. I’m sorry.
October 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I am waiting for messages but have a holiday avatar. I’m sorry.
I’ve had to stop working with a few folks that use it to make everything grammatically correct. So bland.
Alternatively, I’ve stopped sending review requests to people using AI and TurnItIn to do their reviews.
Miss when we had to send out 3 paper copies to reviewers by mail and ask for red pens.
Alternatively, I’ve stopped sending review requests to people using AI and TurnItIn to do their reviews.
Miss when we had to send out 3 paper copies to reviewers by mail and ask for red pens.
October 25, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I’ve had to stop working with a few folks that use it to make everything grammatically correct. So bland.
Alternatively, I’ve stopped sending review requests to people using AI and TurnItIn to do their reviews.
Miss when we had to send out 3 paper copies to reviewers by mail and ask for red pens.
Alternatively, I’ve stopped sending review requests to people using AI and TurnItIn to do their reviews.
Miss when we had to send out 3 paper copies to reviewers by mail and ask for red pens.
Throw em off, dress up as the video game design software and ask them what they thought you meant.
godotengine.org
godotengine.org
Godot Engine - Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine
Godot provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel.
godotengine.org
October 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Throw em off, dress up as the video game design software and ask them what they thought you meant.
godotengine.org
godotengine.org
It’s the best Frogger port.
October 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
It’s the best Frogger port.
I went on a 5 year hunt that ended last year for a toy my grandma bought for me because M.A.S.K. Wasn’t in stock anymore.
This little yellow cube guy was a friend to all my M.A.S.K. toys.
This little yellow cube guy was a friend to all my M.A.S.K. toys.
October 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I went on a 5 year hunt that ended last year for a toy my grandma bought for me because M.A.S.K. Wasn’t in stock anymore.
This little yellow cube guy was a friend to all my M.A.S.K. toys.
This little yellow cube guy was a friend to all my M.A.S.K. toys.
Hey now, there are also crime serials.
October 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Hey now, there are also crime serials.