Linda Carson

Linda Carson grew up in the air force, studied CS, and came out okay. She/her (cis) or they/them Lecturer, U of Waterloo. Passed away 2021... see pinned tweet.

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

If you follow Linda here, you may already have heard that she passed away this week. Linda touched so many, in so many realms, and will be sadly missed. For information about Linda's life, her livestreamed memorial, and the awards founded in her name: https://t.co/pCPW3l40gi

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

@CasualEffects

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

@othercate i used to achieve remarkable personal bests when i took my anger to the weight room

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

@wophugus @YadLladnek @Zoot_Sanchez @FrostiestDog William Goldman, Craft of the Screenwriter: "One of the reasons cameramen have much better lives than writers is because nobody says to a cameraman, "I'll fix the lighting," because nobody knows how to do it. But everybody knows words."

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

@ShannonDea1 It's turtles all the way down.

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

@catehstn it is!

[God Creating Animals @GodAnimalBooks]

God: you’re a spider.

Spider: what does that mean?

God: well you can climb, jump, and shoot webs.

Spider: like Spider-Man?

God: no that's-

Spider: i'm gonna protect my neighborhood so hard : )

God:

Spider: [determined whisper] with great power comes great responsibility.

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

My mother, bringing a colourful arrangement of gerbera daisies in from the front door: "Cate strikes again!"

She hadn't even checked the card, @catehstn 😂💐

[Bitch is still my Superhero Name (Julie) @JulieTheCranky]

Via @Cathi_Bea

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

@catehstn 😬

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

This is what my dreams look like when studying Euclidean geometry.

[dave @beesandbombs]

:)

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

@xinef5980 I miss the star.

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

CW: Bad news

As if 2020 wasn’t already The Year of Big Suck, last summer I was diagnosed with ALS. ALS is that thing you were dumping buckets of ice over your heads for a few summers ago.

1/🧵

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

@thatdawnperson thx for sharing; even the selected images on the website make me long to see the whole thing

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

"It turns out, film stock's failures to capture dark skin aren't a technical issue, they're a choice."

[Jessica Thompson @J3ssicaTh0mpson]

⁦Just discovered ⁦@reetamac⁩’s excellent piece for ⁦BuzzFeed which I will now forward to every colleague who I meet on Teams who registers confusion when I say I’m a biracial person who identifies as Black. https://t.co/fvw2dguuMu

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

@cs_kaplan @99piorg i've got shirley cards in the colour course already, of course, but more voices are better

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

@cs_kaplan @99piorg thanks

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

@J3ssicaTh0mpson Added to the colour course, thanks

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

@xinef5980 😬

[Omri Elisha @AnthroOmri]

We memorized phone numbers. We memorized driving directions. No one knew what we looked like. No one could reach us. We were gods.

[Linda Carson @lccarson]

@tomkatsumi 😬