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Big News Hits Lubbock

This was the top headline in my Google News for the local section in Lubbock, TX.  I had to share.

Where is your homework?

I accidentally divided by zero and my paper burst into flames.
I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook. I couldn’t
actually reach it.
I was watching the World Series and got tied up trying to prove
that it converged.
I have a solar powered calculator and it was cloudy.
I locked the paper in my trunk but a four-dimensional [...]

Blogging by Email

Now that I have a “smart phone” I am hoping to be able to post quick
Twitter updates and maybe blog entries from the phone. Since I don’t
want to pay outrageous SMS fees or data line charges, I am going to
use my existing wireless infrastructure and post by email. This is a
test of that system. [...]

Meteor Shower Weekend

Be sure not to miss out on the meteor showers this weekend (Sunday night – Monday morning). It is a new moon coinciding with the Perseid shower. Mars will also be visible to the naked eye.
Just in case you are curious:

The Perseids (PURR-see-idz) are a prolific meteor shower[1] associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids [...]

Personality.info

HT:“Everybody’s doin’ it, the locomotion, . . .” – Gallimaufry

It was pretty dead on:

ISTJ Career Matches
ISTJs are often happy with the following jobs which tend to match well with the Examiner/Protector personality.

Accountant
Administrator
Auditor
Computer Programmer
Computer Specialist
Dentist
Detective
Doctor
Electrician

Executive
Financial Officer
Judge
Lawyer/Attorney
Librarian
Manager
Marketer
Math Teacher
Mechanical Engineer

Military Leader
Police
Scientist
Steelworker
Systems Analyst
Technical Specialist
Technician

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Moblogging

I have now set up a way to blog using my IPAQ. I use Pocket Sharp MT. I tried setting up blog by email but was utterly unsuccessful. I don’t know if I’ll find it all that useful but I always loving tinkering with my blog and my server. It seems like [...]

Revised Resolutions

I asked my wife if she had any resolutions and was told, “No.”
“Why?”, I asked.
She replied, “because I don’t keep them.”
So, in light of this new philosophy of resolutions, I am proposing the following revisions to my Resolutions.
Resolutions:
1. Maintain or gain weight through the next semester by ignoring [...]

Happy New Year!!!

Resolutions:
1. Stay on weight watchers eating plan through semester.
2. Ride bike at least three times a week.
3. Make daily prayer a true time of fellowship with God.
4. Focus more on student learning and less on my teaching.
5. Unless absolutely necessary, don’t bring work home.
6. Begin and maintain a weekly [...]

Reading List Updated

The page that is linked in the side bar, Reading List, has been updated. It contains a full list of books that I have read this year and intend to read in the future. I guess such a list is a bit of window into my interests. Looking back, I am surprised [...]

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