Rants

Google Personality Disorder

I might be the last one left still using Google Reader. Why not? Although banished from the menus, it will work through July, 2013. I’m in no hurry to join the Mad Rush To Find The Perfect Reader Replacement That Does Not Exist. But I was surprised when tonight reader announced that a newer version […]

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That Old Maverick

Oh how fond is my memory of that 1973 Ford Maverick I drove out to Arizona from Baltimore, it went to the lowest elevations and up into the White Mountains of eastern California. In 1988 I traded it in when I bought a Chevy S-10 pickup. I think they gave me $300 for Martin the […]

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Contouring Your Way

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog The direct path from here to that ridge, was a huge loop to the left, and quite a bit of up and down to get there. The view from my back deck looks across the valley to a high ridge, one that looks continuous […]

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Happy Belated Birthday Dad

cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Sorry I missed your birthday yesterday, Dad. I did get my calendar reminder, and woah, you’d be 87. Twenty years ago you were in Phoenix to climb Camelback Mountain for a special day. And the last one we celebrated together for your 75th is […]

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The New Beatrice

If you watched TV in the mid 1980s you should recall the smarmy commercial for some megacorp that apparently owned more food products than you could name (Airstream, Altoids, Avis, Blue Valley, Butterball, Culligan, Ekrich, Good & Plenty, Hunt’s, Jolly Rancher, Krispy Kreme, La Choy, Meadow Gold, Orville Redenbacher, Peter Pan, Playtex, Reddi Wip, Samsonite, […]

ds106 Class Notes and Stuff

106 Things

It was December 2010 that I spotted my first 106 in the wild, since then I have added another 219. Tomorrow is the deadline for final projects from my Spring 2013 UMW ds106 students. A few grades punched in the system later, and I close out my current era of teaching ds106. After being part […]

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New Takes Photo of Old

cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Today’s ds106 daily create: "Take a picture of the oldest thing you own, and the newest thing you own" tdc.ds106.us/tdc480/ It might not be the oldest thing I own — I do have some pre-Cambrian granite– but this chess medal bears my grandather’s name "David Gottfried" and […]