School days
All at once, Summer is over in a definitive fashion. I enjoyed a bit of sun this weekend during a short little bicycle ride on Sunday and lounging in a… Read more »
Category: tech
Odds and ends
No particular story to tell today, just a few random bits floating through my brain this morning, chit-chat over the morning coffee. Goodness, this has felt like an autumnal weekend!… Read more »
Protected: It was nice while it lasted
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Lessons Learned
A couple of weeks ago, my big 1TB external hard drive died an ignoble death. I tried every trick I knew to recover it, with no success. I even took… Read more »
Human-Computer interactions
I saw a group dynamic interaction that amused and puzzled me this morning, which I felt like sharing. I joined some people for a “coffee klatch” this morning; the hostess… Read more »
Tales from the Front Line
A friend had some tech support woes this morning, and I tried to help. Despite my best efforts, I couldn’t solve the problem either, and so we had to haul… Read more »
Assorted tutoring tales
Monday, a student flagged me down for some help with exponential functions. “They give me two points that the function passes through, and they want me to give the equation… Read more »
Hardware Bitching
Late last fall, I got a brand new Mac Book Pro. It was my first Intel machine, and a newer industrial design, and wicked fast and I was quite happy… Read more »
McDonalds is the stupid
I just noticed the advertising on this cup from McDonalds. In case you can’t make it out, it says, open ’til midnight or laterat participating McDonalds Parsing this for semantic… Read more »
Last night, I took a girl out to hear a lecture about e coli; what it is, how it spreads, what it can do to you, how to minimize the… Read more »