I have been ranting to my students about Windows again recently. I do this whenever I’m forced to use it. The only thing that makes me use it these days is when I need to get something that I’m teaching working for my poor students who need to use it. This usually results in me [...]
This is an EPI-Pen. They come in pairs and this one’s twin saved my life yesterday. I’m allergic to the stings of bees, hornets, and yellow jackets. Yesterday I was about to see a play at an outdoor theater. It was a perfect October day here in Wisconsin, sunny and in the mid-seventies. [...]
This is Sweet
I got a 17” MacBook Pro and it is changing the way I work. My new shiny laptop replaced a 12” PowerBook that I thought was the best computer on the planet. But, with the old laptop I really needed external monitors to get any real work done. I even bought monitors to [...]
I am a really big fan of the iTunes Music Store. It improved my music buying experience. One example from early in iTunes life was one day my daughter came home from school and said she needed to buy “The Planets” by Holst and wanted to go to a store and get a CD. About [...]
I am trying to get my blog back up and running. This time I’m just using WordPress as it is just easy to set up and run. Easy is good, especially when I have as busy a semester as I do this fall.