I have discovered an addictive new hobby. You guys know about Project Gutenberg, right? Digitizing public domain books so that they will be available to everyone on the internet? Well, now everybody can help with the effort by proofreading pages of books. If you're interested, check out http://www.pgdp ( Read more... )

Today marks the end of finals week. As soon as I get my grades turned in, this school year is officially over ( Read more... )

My office smells like fermented cow crap again.

So I ordered my fancy doctorate cap and gown a few weeks back, with much outrage at the price. Well, yesterday right after the power came back on, the UPS man stopped by to put my outrageously overpriced commencement regalia in a snow pile right under where the water all drips off the roof. No problem, I must have been running late specifically so ( Read more... )

Edinboro, oh Edinboro ( Read more... )

I would never complain about my own university because I have been forbidden to. But let me tell you about a dumb rule at a dumb hypothetical university somewhere ( Read more... )

1999-2004
My dear little Peepus died yesterday of a sudden case of pneumonia. He didn't suffer long; in fact, he seemed fine until about Monday. I sat with him all day yesterday, holding him for most of the afternoon. He quietly slipped away toward evening.
I will miss him so. Rest in peace, little green darling.

Well, y'all, nothing too exciting has been going on around here lately, but I thought it might be about time for an update. As of yesterday, the semester is officially half over, which means I'm finally convinced that I really will make it! Yes, my job is great, but it's about three times more work than I was expecting, and for the first month or ( Read more... )

One of my articles got accepted to a journal! It's the Journal of Computer Science, and I don't know what issue it will show up in, but yay!!! Bonus: since this didn't happen until now, it counts as having happened at Edinboro, so I have something happy and impressive to put in my folder for my performance review. (I wrote the paper at UAH--it's ( Read more... )

Well, my first week as a prof is officially over. I must say that with the exception of the first day, it has been a totally awesome week. (The first day I had two regular classes plus a reception thingy which prevented me from getting any dinner plus a section of computer literacy from 6:00-8:30. Between not eating and being so nervous and having ( Read more... )