February 13, 2012 – 2:36 pm
Louis Menand’s article, Live and Learn – why we have college is great and you should read the whole article, but I wanted to point out one paragraph that struck me as a defender of the liberal arts education. The most interesting finding is that students majoring in liberal-arts fields—sciences, social sciences, and arts and [...]
September 9, 2009 – 3:40 pm
Today class, we will learn about states! California to be exact. And, well, learn might be too strong a word to describe the benefits from reading this report I wrote. My guess is that I wrote this in 1985 or so, which would have made me 10 years old at the time, so 5th grade. [...]
September 5, 2009 – 1:07 pm
My first computer was an Apple ][+; it was a wonderful little machine. I got it when I was 5 or 6 years old and started me on what has been a successful life in technology. Part of the reason I started to use a computer was as a compensation to my abysmally bad and [...]
Hello everyone who is still reading my blog. I am not dead, although it has felt like a possibility a few times lately. I would apologize for not posting, but I doubt anyone really is bothered all that much. I will use the standard excuse that life has been quite busy. Busy in good ways [...]
I can’t believe it has been almost 6 months since I last posted an update. Our vacation to Atlanta does not seem that it was that long ago, but such is life when you are having fun or when you loose time through the frustration of banging your head against a wall repeatedly. So lets [...]
I’m an official real student again. I got my acceptance letter and have returned the “yes, I will register” paperwork. Master’s degree, here I come (albeit slowly).
As part of the final exam for my CS class, the undergrads were asked to rate each of the three grad students on our management skills. This included providing comments to some questions regarding our ability and worthiness as managers. I just got copies of my evaluations and I thought I would pass along some [...]
I’ve been in academic limbo for the last year and a half. I have been taking graduate CS courses, but I was not actually in the graduate program. That had been the plan, but I needed to take the GREs first. Initially I had wanted to take time to study and prepare before taking the [...]