Making space for sadness
I hadn’t found space yet to cry this week. As the election results came in, I was out bowling with my students, and as they… Read More »Making space for sadness
That’s _Professor_ Bozo to you, Pal
Something odd about teaching at a university – everyone wants to call you Professor, or Doctor. I am always flattered by the upgrade, but I… Read More »That’s _Professor_ Bozo to you, Pal
In loving memory of Patrick Fiachie
In the fall of 1993, I was 20 years old. I’d just graduated from college, and had lived most of my life in my parents’… Read More »In loving memory of Patrick Fiachie
I never went looking for a mentor
I never went looking for a mentor. In 1995, I was working as the lead tech guy for an internet startup, Tripod. I spent an… Read More »I never went looking for a mentor
Why is Verizon letting rural broadband decay?
Let me start with an apology: reading other people’s tech support horror stories is less fun than hearing them describe their medical problems or recount… Read More »Why is Verizon letting rural broadband decay?
Update, or a missing person report
I just received a kind inquiry via email from a reader who wondered what had happened to this blog. It’s a fair question. It’s been… Read More »Update, or a missing person report