Try that one again, Microsoft

It might just be the font of the Reuters site that makes this look strange, but Microsoft may be ill-advised in its naming of its upcoming conference.

They're calling it "D: All Things Digital". Maybe I spend way too much online, but when I see "D:" it looks to me like a big frowny face, not that the conference is called (inexplicably) "D". I don't think a big frowny face is the reassuring image Microsoft wants to project.

A supervisor! I has one (maybe)!

I've just spent two hours repeating variations of "A supervisor! I has one (maybe)!"

Because it's true (hopefully)! A supervisor! I has one (maybe)!

I sent out a batch of "Supervisor? I can has?" emails this morning (at, like, 8:15am) and the prof I'm most interested in meeting replied with a big "Yes, I've heard of you, I'd love to meet, how's your afternoon looking?" The best part is that - like most people who study fandom - she's in fandom, too. (If I read her email right. I may have been squeeing too hard. Hers was the fifth reply of ten emails I'd sent out, and the first that wasn't a rejection.)

So I'm going now to meet her. A supervisor! I has one (maybe)!