Farewell to a colleague A colleague of mine from Criminal Justice, Michael Blankenship, died suddenly on campus last week after teaching a class. I didn’t know him well, but we had a couple of nice chats, and I read his blog. Today the campus held a funeral for him. I couldn’t attend because I had […]
[Continue reading...]Baratunde Thurston speaks my mind
April 28, 2011 By
Whining, in stereo
April 22, 2011 By
This little drama is repeated, oh, five evenings every week when the dog thinks it’s time for his walk and the boy wants some iPhone time. Multiply the length of this video by 30 to get a sense of how long such a scene might last, and you have some idea of why I don’t […]
[Continue reading...]Welcome to Helena Elise
April 22, 2011 By
. . .and congratulations to Stacy and Pete! My niece was born yesterday–20 inches and 8 lbs 15 oz.
[Continue reading...]Things I don’t have time to think about
April 20, 2011 By
#1: Pointless counterfactuals.* So why, all day, was I haunted by the fact that today is the sesquicentennial of Robert E. Lee resigning his commission in the United States Army? I think it must have been the papers I should have been grading–procrastination created a vacuum, and in rushed Marse Robert. WTF? Because honestly, there […]
[Continue reading...]Four twenty
April 19, 2011 By
I still remember watching the events at Columbine High on April 20, 1999 on the tiny TV in the tiny storage loft newsroom where I worked at the time, and heading down the stairs to share birthday cake with the odd art director dude in the graphics department. I couldn’t believe he was 37–he seemed […]
[Continue reading...]Speechless
April 15, 2011 By
Alas, what he’s (not) saying applies to the Idaho legislature even more than to the U.S. Congress.
[Continue reading...]Queens
April 12, 2011 By
Image by Laura Favrow, and used under a Creative Commons license I’ve written before about the interesting conversations Lucas, now age 5 1/2, and I have had in the car on the way to preschool. I enjoy seeing how his neurons are firing on any given day, and since he can’t see my reaction […]
[Continue reading...]Mi familia–plus a guessing game
April 8, 2011 By
I’m conferencing, and my attention is scattered right now, plus it’s icky humid here in Pensacola and I can’t think when the weather is like this, so all I’ve got are random items o’ famille. (. . .and a couple of posts about the conference; you can read them over here.) Detail of an Image […]
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