Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
One day I wake up with a thought. Actually, it does not pop in just like that. I am not a cartoon character with a light bulb over my head. The thought starts as a background hum, a slow buzzing sound that might be calling your name, or maybe it just is noise. Something outside. […]
It took some alarm clock action, but was worth it to get up early for a Skype call with Antonio Vantaggiato and his INF115 students at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. It seems like a while ago, but only a few weeks since I left Puerto Rico, having spent a month at the University and helping […]
I read two articles online this week that truly stood out as great writing, both by authors I have read before and found to be great writers. No news there. Nor is there in the idea for my first title for this post, it was going to be “Great Writing is Great Writing (duh).” Why […]
While #western106 has long ridden off the horizon (or sunk into the desert sand), I had a movie left to finish watching. For longer than I can remember, I’ve loved Little Big Man for a number of things, but on so many levels its a Western that does not exactly act like one. Actually what […]
Mother’s Day without your Mom leaves a big space to comb through the past. I cannot count myself fortunate enough that on my last visit with her in 2011 (never expecting it to be the last), that I got her to record some audio stories of her past, growing up, her family life, meeting my […]
Like atrophied brain muscles, tonight I was itching to do some code tinkering, so I added a new feature to the DS106 Assignment Bank Theme. It’s hardly anything the world was clamoring for (I am not sure if the world clamors to me anyhow). And I got to practice doing my git-ness right by making […]
This all started with looking at the WordPress site presentation deck Brian Lamb used for a talk last week at Conventry University. There’s a lot more to Brian’s talks than this, but few people title them as well as Ed Tech Isn’t Dead, It Just Smells Funny nor finds the wackiest GIFs. But I’m not […]
May 2 could have been my Dad’s 90th birthday, but the only notched 75. Just fathoming that the last birthday he saw, and I saw, was fifteen years ago. I was planning to visit him in Florida for a special birthday, but no one in the family expected that birthday would be in the hospital. […]
It’s been a while since I devoted what is most likely wasted energy into debunking the oft repeated assertion that “people process images 60,000 times faster than text”. If this sounds like something you have heard, seen in a presentation, or book, and it sounds “truthy”, please stop and read my background work. I forgot […]
My big/little sister Harriet is quite talented in many creative areas. I have a 26 year old quilt she made, an oil painting of the bicentennial tall ships she did in her teens, and a re-designed kitchen thanks to her help and decor taste. A little over a year ago she took up watercolor painting, […]
