It’s been nine-and-a-half years (mine: Dog years, 51*). Back then I took a deep breath and pledged just south of $1,000 of my credit limit for a Sony F707. My justification was that in 2002 I was going to teach in Peru, Chile, and China and I wanted something more robust than the one-megapixel cameras [...]
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A great morning
Another one of those early mornings that makes you feel up and ready to go. The moon was two days past full, sitting about a third of the way up from the western horizon, and it was simply bright out. I felt as though there was enough light for my eyes to be perceiving color [...]
Resistance is useless…
Friday evening, this email arrived: from fnu LNU<********@gmail.com> Sent at 6:19 PM (GMT-05:00). to yxxxxxx@gmail.com date Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:19 PM subject Press Inquiry – Deadline Mr. Xxxxxx, Would you mind commenting at all on signing on as city manager in Ferris? What are you looking forward to bringing to the city? Any [...]
Coyote
Feeling pretty sure it was a coyote, I said to Nick, “Think I saw a dog,” not wanting to be misbelieved. Nick said, “Must have been a coyote.” Too early for a good image: Coggeshall Farm, Bristol, RI, 17 Jun, 2009, about 5 a.m., Saved at 1920 by 1200 pixels
Anti-quark
This is Ed, who walks the opposite way ’round from me in the morning. Like the two cartoon sheepdogs clocking out: “Mornin’ Ed.” “Mornin’ Ed.” Only twice, since we walk in overlapping loops. We can tell ourselves apart because I’m the one with the faux hip, he’s the one with the pacemaker…or, wait a minute, [...]
Case in Point
No one has actually asked my why I go out to walk (or, in the old days, run) at 5 a.m. Today provided plenty of reasons. The soft pre-dawn light lit the low ground mist around the Mill Gut, and I walked through a cascade of mist that flowed past the Coggeshall farmhouse, the ice [...]
My Approach to Pedagogy
In the fall of 2008 I applied for a tenure-track position at the university where I currently teach as a full-time visiting professor. As I observed to a friend, that would mean that I would be eligible for tenure when I reach 75…just when I’d really be able to enjoy it. Part of the application [...]
Walkin’, yes indeed, and I’m talkin’…
Last time, I was about to get a new right hip; it was supposed to happen on the 9th of December but due to an unusual set of circumstances, Laurie and I ended up being told, at 6 p.m., that the surgery wasn’t going to happen that day. (The day of fasting and prep was [...]
Happy Holidays!
The fall has been spent wearing away the last few centimeters of cartilage around my right hip joint, so the time has come to call for replacements. I have never been a fan of artificiality, even when it comes with “triple-stranded polymer plastic” which I am told will make up the lining of my new [...]
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With a little help from my friends
In a quandary this morning. I can understand some things pretty easily, like how General Motors can claim that an electric car that has to be plugged in every 40 miles can get 230 miles to the gallon. I am, of course, a university-certified Marketing Wizard. Other things I understand pretty easily include the idea that pine [...]
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