{"id":5833,"date":"2020-04-09T21:57:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T02:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/?p=5833"},"modified":"2020-04-09T21:57:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T02:57:11","slug":"tomorrow-i-will-be-serious-today-its-quarantine-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejuliagroup.com\/blog\/tomorrow-i-will-be-serious-today-its-quarantine-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow, I will be serious. Today, it’s quarantine clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Before the pandemic happened, I was planning on speaking at the SAS Global Forum on things I had learned as a statistical consultant. I wanted to call it “This is a hill I will die on” but one of my students suggested “This is a hill I will not die on” was a better title. However, by the time I had this idea the deadline for changing anything in your paper had already passed so the title was<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Santiago to the Spirit Lake Nation: 30 things I learned in 30 years as a statistical consultant<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

You can click the link above and read it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My point is that I am a serious person doing serious things – some of the time and tomorrow I will write about statistics. However … since there is a blogging challenge going on<\/a> …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Eva and I decided to write about quarantine clothes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I am hardly the fashion plate at the best of times. In my bio for The Family Textbook, which is hilarifying and you can purchase for the measly sum of $2.99<\/a> it mentions my proclivity for collecting weird socks, which is true. It also notes that I have never sent a dick pic. Also true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first rule of web meetings is to wear clothes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Invisible Developer, also the Chief Technology Officer of 7 Generation Games<\/a>, contrary to popular belief, is very seldom bossed around by me. However, here is where I draw the line. When he proposed that he could be on time for a daily morning meeting – incidentally, at 11 am – if he attended in his bathrobe, I declared the meeting could start late and he would be clothed. We do, after all, have a sexual harassment policy around here and I am pretty sure showing up in video calls in your bathrobe under which you may or may not be wearing underwear violates it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rule #1 Does Not Apply if Your Camera is Turned Off<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Gonzalo, a senior software developer, almost never appears with the web camera turned on and when he does, he was wearing a mask before it was cool. No, not like an N95 mask but like a “I’m-a-member-of-the-horde-from-World-of-Warcraft” mask. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you think I am kidding, check out this video on designing video games which includes Gonzalo and his very cool mask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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