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I’m fixing to crunch my students’ grades from last semester to determine how much their attendance contributed to their final average. Just from eye-balling it, I figure at least 75%… Read More »Stats

I ran across this picture while I was at Mom and Dad’s on Christmas (click for a larger view). It’s me and my prom date in 2000. I had a… Read More »Twas a Great Night

Wikipedia is either a linguist’s nightmare or dream, depending on his disposition. This free online encyclopia offers tons of definitions that are years ahead of any formal dictionary. The entries… Read More »More Geek Slang Than You Knew Existed

This is the first time in four years that I don’t have to pack up %50 of what I own and head to Mom and Dad’s for a month. I… Read More »The Joy of Staying Put

I got my hair cut at Wal-Mart this morning. (Before you laugh, I think she did a fantastic job.) After Robin, the stylist, had finished with the cut, she pleaded… Read More »Blue Hair

I got the DVI cable I ordered from Buy.com today and hooked my new 19″ flat panel to the all-digital DVI connector on my video card. I must say, the… Read More »Two Monitors!

I bought a 19″ flat panel monitor (the Viewsonic VX910) last Saturday. It’s great. I wish I would have had it in college. It’s glorious 19″ fully viewable screen weighs… Read More »19″ of Fun

Mozilla’s newest release of its Firefox Browser rocks. Whatever bugs were in the previous releases have been more than resolved and it now renders faster than Opera. There’s also a… Read More »Newest Firefox Rocks!

Somehow, someway, it has come to my attention that the meanings of “and” & “or” are not understood very well by a large number of people. Let me stand on… Read More »The Difference Between AND and OR

I’ve been reading this delightful little comic for awhile called Perls Before Swine. I LOVE the swine! He’s like Charley Brown, except his world is a bit more grown up.