Category Archives: personal

Moving On

About a half-hour ago I finished the last of my students’ portfolios from this past semester; I’m waiting a little while here to allow some people who had problems submitting things to me to get some last papers e-mailed to me, but then tomorrow afternoon I’ll be submitting their grades. Contrary to what I thought earlier, I actually do get a week off before the next semester starts, and I probably need that time off right now more than ever. In addition to catching up…

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Decompression

This past weekend I’ve just taken some time for myself and tried to decompress. For the first time since Dad’s death I didn’t have anything that needed immediate attention from my students, although starting Wednesday I’ll have some fifty or sixty portfolios to look at and get graded by the following Monday. I also start teaching Composition I at MCCC that Monday, so over the next couple of days I’ll have to look at the required textbook for that class and try to figure out…

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Passed by

As much as I used to follow computing news and trends back in the 1990s, the combination of leaving the Website design business, going back to college, and losing access to Tech TV after the fire caused me to kind of withdraw from that whole scene. Later, when I stopped working for Dad’s business to focus on my studies, I lost access to the computing magazines he always subscribed to. I still knew enough to build my own computer (Yggdrasil Mark I) back in 2003,…

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Creature comforts

While we continue to inventory and appraise all of the things Dad had in his office at the time of his death, my sister found the missing piece for my old articulating keyboard drawer, the metal plate that attaches to the bottom of the desk and works as a runner for the drawer to slide in and out of. Not only do I just generally prefer articulating drawers so I can angle my keyboard to my liking, but I needed a new keyboard drawer anyway.…

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Other people’s music

With all of the craziness of the past couple of months I failed to note Björk getting into the press on a couple of occasions. First she went after another photographer (and this time couldn’t claim she was trying to protect her son like she did the first time this happened), and then there was the incident of her chanting “Tibet” over and over at the end of her song “Declare Independence” while performing in China. I’m still not really bothering to keep close tabs…

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