The Professor’s Notes

Ever want to listen to music, but just don’t know what you want?  Try a completely random, stream of consciousness playlist.  Go to the search window (see below) and type in the first word that comes to mind.  This will search all your songs for that word in the title, artis, and even in the [...]

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Perhaps it was the time of night, or perhaps it is because I remember so fondly the renaissance of Baroque music in the early 80s. (Baroque, and Ronald Reagan but captivated the nation–coincidence?) Either way, I found this performance to be quite enjoyable which is a nice way of saying I really laughed [...]

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I have been “tagged” by my brother to do a “book” meme.  The rules:

Pick up the nearest book of 123 pages or more (no cheating!)
Find page 123
Find the first five sentences
Post the next three sentences
Tag five people

Okay–so the book is Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies by Simchi-Levy, Kaminsky, and [...]

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My son put together a project for his history class. He had to do something that reflected some aspect of China. He decided to “visit” China and watch some ping-pong tournaments.
The avid listener and follower will know that he and I blog and podcast together over at “The Father Son Chats.”
Enjoy his video!

 

 Chinese Ping Pong [5:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (165)

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My brother has tagged me with a meme. Usually I ignore all of these, but this one is different, because I am going to break the meme a bit.
The general idea is to write about what I was doing 1, 20 and 30 yrs ago. Well, I will do that, but I will [...]

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Okay, so many people have commented that this Jesus in the Floor was like Mary in the grilled Cheese. I wondered about that, so I went and found the Mary in the grilled cheese stories, and pictures, including in Wikipedia (anyone want to add my Jesus Floorboard to Wikipedia?). I have pulled the [...]

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It is now time for me to make a (albeit minor) correction to the record. I had (as so clearly pointed out by the NAP from ALiberalDose) not only abused, but misused the word hyperbole.
The kind professors at the Language Log carefully point out that hyperbole is used to extend in exaggeration. Now, [...]

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Here are two photos (well, one, really) taken by my son. As you can see, the original is in color, and only three simple effects were applied using Picasa from Google. Converted to B/W, increased the contrast (using the shadows and highlights effect) and the adjusting the focal point.
Enjoy!
Start Slide Show with [...]

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Apparently my appearance, and information about me, has become an issue. Here’s my picture, and I have now added information to my Profile. Enjoy!
Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

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I have added a couple interesting blogs to the links section, as well as started a new section for links to informational sites.
I am wondering, dear class, what you think I should add as links? Any favorite blogs you think I should point to? Should I, out of shear magnanimity, add our dear, eloquent [...]

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