All that is necessary for the survival of the fittest

is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar--Grace Paley

Juliet Waters

Juliet Waters
Location
Montreal, Canada
Birthday
August 01
Bio
Montreal writer, book critic, single mom, ex-Expos fan, now rooting for the Portland Seadogs. Currently working on a book about Developmental Coordination Disorder. Also learning to code. Visit me at my new blog: Familycoding.com

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December 15, 2012 11:52AM
“I'm not sure what's going to happen. Technical issues have kept me away. And other meandering paths. But I hope you give FB a try. I've kept up wit…”
About: The Echo In Open Salon's Halls
September 05, 2012 03:35PM
“Thanks Rob and Myriad. Maybe we'll meet up there someday.”
About: At the Montreal Maker Faire
August 31, 2012 11:08AM
“Hope you make it next year. I will definitely check out Destination Imagination. Thanks for the suggestion.”
About: At the Montreal Maker Faire
July 26, 2012 06:48PM
“Thank you! I'm really enjoying this season, and kinda regret no offering to recap it again this year. But I'm convinced it's the hardest recap gig on…”
About: In Which I Briefly Consider Punching Alan Ball in the Knee
June 20, 2012 08:07PM
“Thanks Deborah, One day I'll make it back to New Mexico. Everyone keeps telling me that the mini maker faire will be empty because they'll all be at…”
About: Code Year: Codecademy scores $10M and features my skills
June 20, 2012 07:35PM
“It is a scary and all that. And probably really, really boring to anybody who isn't a total codehead, as I seem to be for the moment. But I had a lot…”
About: Code Year: Codecademy scores $10M and features my skills
June 07, 2012 12:43PM
“I saw that! I love her with her. Thanks for the correction!”
About: My Code Year: The Women
June 06, 2012 09:39PM
“Thanks. That lead me to this: a wonderful summary of her career by Kurt Beyer, who wrote a book Grace Hopper and The Invention of The Information Age…”
About: My Code Year: The Women
June 06, 2012 06:09PM
“Thanks Rob. There is a paragraph about the ENIAC girls in the talk by Ensmenger. Says a lot about the rich history of women that I actually left some…”
About: My Code Year: The Women
May 31, 2012 08:52AM
“Thanks for the feeback vzn. Ya, I was happy that I could make this comprehensible enough for an EP. The language thing is an interesting question. I…”
About: My Code Year, Things Being More Equal Than Others
May 30, 2012 10:29AM
“Thanks Rob. That totally makes sense. I didn't get into the ways that x= y +1 is different in programming from algebra. But I think I've finally crack…”
About: My Code Year, Things Being More Equal Than Others
May 25, 2012 03:21PM
“Thanks Bart. I have to agree with you. These kids are sacrificing an entire school year to protest an educational system that is putting the average…”
About: Quebec Student Protests: What the Red Square Means
May 25, 2012 11:04AM
“Funny that you should use that quote, Tom. In a late nineteenth century edition of Harper's there was an article on Montreal which stated "Montrea…”
About: Quebec Student Protests: What the Red Square Means
May 24, 2012 04:28PM
“We're made of hardier stuff up here. The have been going on for three months. Plus there's no spring in Montreal. Just winter and summer.”
About: Quebec Student Protests: What the Red Square Means
May 24, 2012 02:44PM
“That's not the minister of Education Fusun. It's the schoolboard, and probably the unions. To teach in a CSDM school you have to pass a rigorous Fren…”
About: Quebec Student Protests: What the Red Square Means
May 24, 2012 12:23PM
“A huge part of the mess is that the protest has been taken totally out of its historical context. Yes Quebec students pay the lowest university tuitio…”
About: Who's to Blame for the Mess in Montreal?
May 02, 2012 06:04PM
“Yeah, translation sites are still pretty awful. I live in Montreal, so I know how bad they are from French to English and vice versa. But this is differ…”
About: Bottable Stories
May 02, 2012 05:24PM
“Nick, this is amazing stuff I'm reading about the AIG sales. And by the way Steve, I wrote billion, when I meant trillion. But, yeah, I always suspe…”
About: Frontline’s “Money, Power & Wall Street”
May 02, 2012 03:56PM
“I wouldn't go that far. Canadian banks made a ton of money of that bailout, since it went to them for a long enough time to make a lot of interest. W…”
About: Frontline’s “Money, Power & Wall Street”
May 02, 2012 02:49PM
“Oops. Sorry that all came out as a link.... guess my programming skills still need work.”
About: Frontline’s “Money, Power & Wall Street”
May 02, 2012 02:49PM
“Oh this brings me back to so many happy days, making fun of Tim Geithner to Saturn Smith. That said, how did Frontline get past the fact that the 7 bill…”
About: Frontline’s “Money, Power & Wall Street”
May 02, 2012 02:10PM
“Oh, don't give up on the genetic excuse just yet. My son was diagnosed with developmental coordination disorder when he was eight, by a neurologist, a…”
About: Not Quite Ready For Hoarders, But...
May 02, 2012 09:54AM
“It is sobering to think about. But I think it's also good for journalists not to be complacent about what skills are going to needed for future journa…”
About: Bottable Stories
May 02, 2012 09:39AM
“Sigh. They were exactly like that! And then Oprah started her OS picks, and Jonathan Franzen showed up , and it all wilted away, like the South.”
About: The Salad Days of Open Salon
April 18, 2012 01:47PM
“I have a bunch of tricks I've been using for a while. We have postal codes in Canada that have letters and numbers, so one trick I have is to use a po…”
About: Knowing the Password
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