I wanted to title this with some kind of pun on Sieve of Eratosthenes, but I couldn’t come up with anything, so a Harry Potter reference it is instead. Lots going on lately, even though most of my professional life has slowed down a bit. Most of my colleagues get a bit stressed at this [...]
I didn’t plan to have a day of nothing, but I knew there would be one, mostly because (a) that’s how I roll and (b) it’s a lean financial week for me. I spent a bunch of money on something I’m getting reimbursed for but I haven’t been reimbursed yet, and that’s money I really [...]
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I normally roll into the classroom in the early to late afternoon and find myself still there at a ridiculously late hour. I’m going to try to get stuff done earlier today, hoping to be on my way by two or three. We’ll see how that goes; I often fall asleep at my desk when [...]
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I was going through some old archives and found these images. I still kinda like them. They became unnecessary (and, in fact, difficult to employ) with the switch to WP, and although my skillz are such that I could fairly easily put any of these in the WP themes I use, since I never did [...]
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Long-time readers of this space will remember when I still wrote it in HTML. I had been running Movable Type at the Village Idiots site and liked it a great deal, but I still wanted to keep this space old-school. The problem was that sometimes the effort prevented me from actually writing, so a few [...]
When you don’t know what to write, just write. If writing in this space for these past seven years has taught me anything worth keeping, it is that I always have something to write about. Sometimes I just have to start writing in order to discover what that is. I was once asked by Ann, [...]
Dear Mr. Davis: Nice job. Two of the Around the Horn guys say you guys got the surprise pick of the draft. Darren McFadden is big, strong, quick, and versatile, just like last year’s first-rounder. Now you have last year’s best QB and this year’s best RB, to go along with a couple of outstanding [...]
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I can’t write about it now, but I will. Madeleine L’Engle is dead.
