It’s that time of the decade when everyone seems to be doing their end of the decade thinking, and despite my resistance to doing so, I have done so. When I teach my personal recollections of the history of my lifetime I tend to look back on the 80’s as the worst of historical [...]
Filed under: History, Music, Politics on December 27th, 2009 | Add Comment! »
The quote “If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying” is often misused. Jim Rome uses it a lot on his radio show. According “Jungle” lore, it was most famously used by a pro baseball coach who used it to encourage his team’s base runners to lead off bases more to and consequently steal [...]
Filed under: General Observations, Teaching on December 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A couple weeks ago at the behest of Moveon.org, I attended a town hall meeting at the Potter Town Garage with Congressman Eric Massa.
Yes… the Potter Town Garage. It was very difficult to find, and I was looking for a Town Hall instead of a town garage. I saw a few official [...]
Filed under: Politics on September 1st, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve always wanted a fireplace in my back yard, but zoning ordinances and safety considerations always stood in my way. Finally, because of a narrow loophole in our town’s fire code, I can walk through town with my head held high knowing I’m not breaking the law by having a fire in my [...]
Filed under: General Observations on August 31st, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Every morning just after sunrise and before the cats wake up the morning crew of Blue Jays comes to hang out. They’re very cranky to one another, almost like the older folks in Le Marais for whom crankiness becomes a sign of affection. Hey… I have a little bit of Paris on my deck!
Blue Jays [...]
Filed under: General Observations on August 20th, 2009 | Add Comment! »
This is from my State Senator Al Volker’s Facebook page.
As the recession drags on in New York, lawmakers and state leaders look for ways to revitalize the economy. The tax and spend approach the Democrats took with last year’s budget, adding on over $13 billion in new tax and fee increases, will no [...]
Filed under: Politics on August 20th, 2009 | Add Comment! »
This is some advice I shared with one my students who just graduated… I thought others might benefit.
Make sure, on your super duper mac book, that you have an organizer program, and USE IT. Better yet, if you can get a phone with an organizer that syncs to the computer. Put everything on [...]
Filed under: Teaching on August 20th, 2009 | Add Comment! »
I’ve had all good intentions of seeing Gov’t Mule for the past several years, but I’ve never been able to connect. This year at Party in the Park, I finally connected. Even though I got there a half hour into their set, I still got a two hour show in which the Mule [...]
Filed under: Music on August 18th, 2009 | Add Comment! »
Tomorrow I’m going to see my Congressman.
I did this a couple summers ago, but only with my wife’s assurance that it was okay with her if I got arrested and did I care which attorney I got? I was prepared to be arrested because we were going to the arraignment of several protestors [...]
Filed under: Politics on August 17th, 2009 | Add Comment! »
So in my seventh day of not eating I’m looking around at a dirty house, overgrown lawn and myriad other things which, if not done, will bring chaos and disorder to the universe. I want my food energy back… I want to get up and do normal things again.
I started to [...]
Filed under: Food, General Observations on July 14th, 2009 | Add Comment! »
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