MoodyTunes

Welcome news from the Land of Arbitrary Rules I Love: more and more professors are banning laptops in college classrooms.
This isn’t exactly news — laptop bans show up on many an English department syllabus in my neck of the woods — but it did re-stimulate my amazement at students tapping away on laptops in classes. [...]

A random site update — comments on yesterday’s post reminded me to back up all the files related to this site. As a former IT professional I should know better than to go long periods of time without backing stuff up.
Thesis Time also means Procrastinating Time so I upgraded WordPress, too. That’s the software [...]

I thought I’d dedicate a Thursday post to my coffee maker. I think it’s about five years old — a 4-cup Mr. Coffee that cost $10 at Target — and it’s as simple as you can get. I’ve had several coffee makers over the years and none of them deliver the same, consistent results as [...]

I’m considering story ideas involving the expansive field of “technology” and that has coincided nicely with rediscovering my game console and its various capabilities. Quite a few devices offer the ability to watch Netflix videos over an Internet connection, and I realized halfway through playing with that feature that my reaction was decidedly muted. And [...]

I’m back in South Carolina for a few days. Spring Break sure came early. March came early. Everything is moving quickly. I’ll finish up the school year in April and then…who knows?
I managed to drag the wind and rain from Tennessee to South Carolina for the weekend. I’m sorry, South Carolinians. I thought it’d [...]