June 2011

Off the Grid!

June 8, 2011

Wow! I can’t believe it: I’m now free of Blackboard! Everything the comp students could possibly need online henceforth resides, as of this moment, at WordPress.com. I’ve transferred all the course materials, all the links, and all the weekly announcements, and I’ve invented a way for students to post drafts and peer reviews at the [...]

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How to Cook

June 7, 2011

Fearlessly. Incrementally. Ad lib. That’s how we cook. My mother used to say “if you can read, you can cook.” Surely that’s true: following a recipe isn’t very hard, and the result is usually better than anything you can buy in a restaurant. Cooking goes beyond reading, though. Eventually it arrives at creativity: at making [...]

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How to Make a Composter

June 6, 2011

A couple weeks back, I purchased a would-be composter from Costco. Rejected: too complicated to put together, too obtrusive, and at around $100, too expensive. Lucky Costco has a generous return policy. You may recall that I had a wonderful composter, a gift from my friend La Bethulia. I really loved it. In the first [...]

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Swimming pool w00t!

June 5, 2011

Into the drink late this morning, after a bunch of yard- and housework was done! Yahoo! The pool water is perfect! Just cool enough to be refreshing but not (quite) so cold as to freeze you into a solid block of ice. The lovely Texas sage is in full blossom, arching over the deep end [...]

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Close Encounters of the Wee-Hours Kind

June 5, 2011

Ugh! What could be worse than waking up at two in the morning with a headache? Well…waking up at two in the morning with a headache, booting up your Mac, and having Firefox try to redirect to an Amazonaws site. {sigh} Good morning to you, too! I think Firefox may have blocked it. FF popped [...]

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Wafting on the Wind…

June 3, 2011

It’s 10:00 p.m. and I just finished the last revamped syllabus for the summer courses, which begin to incorporate my various schemes to make life terrifying interesting for my students. Been a bit silent on the blog because of the workload and the various adventures. This morning my friend KJG came into town to socialize. [...]

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