It’s hard to believe our Madelyn is a year old. Seems like just yesterday Erin and I were at the hospital waiting to see what baby was waiting for us. Now our girl is walking and almost talking. Now we have a busy, funny, smily girl.
Happy birthday, Miss Bee.
I was a Florida sophomore, living a block from campus, when the murders happened. I remember a few things:
Phones overloaded and unusable. I didn’t have a phone at the time, but even the pay phones didn’t work.
Realizing I would no longer see or hear of Manny fooling around instead of working on his architecture models.
Police [...]
After a little more than 18 months, my del.icio.us is now 1001 links strong. Enjoy!
Using del.icio.us has changed the way I deal with students in a few interesting ways; I now suggest that folks poke around in my del.icio.us or point them to specific tags. (I need to ask some students if this is actually [...]
For the second time today, this is what I’m looking at:
Words fail me. As they often do.
It looks like WIU has taken a step towards improving web accessibility. At the IBHE’s order, WIU has started a committee which has set forth some pretty admirable goals given the poor state of web accessibility here at WIU. I was reluctant to get involved at first–will this be another committee which meets once a [...]
Looks like a cold snap is coming. We may even get some snow.
Last year we had a few mild frosts in October, but most of the garden made it into mid-November. If we see high 20s tonight and tomorrow, that’ll be the end of the tomatoes and peppers that are still cranking out fruit at [...]
Madelyn is a pretty good little eater. So far:
She likes to eat avocados, kiwi, bananas, grapes, oatmeal, currant tomatoes, teething biscuits, applesauce, pears, sweet potatoes, Cheerios, some crackers, peas, yogurt, and spinach.
Sometimes: apples, beets, pancakes, carrots.
But the girl does not like cottage cheese, corn, Cheezit-style crackers, or edamame.
Erin says she’s a “fruitarian.”
This week I ran a few times with Madelyn in the stroller, which is great–I’m glad she’s getting more happy with that.
10/2, 30 minutes with Madelyn, didn’t worry about distance, just getting out there to run.
10/6, 5K in 25:50, then 2 miles at 9:30. Madelyn seemed to really enjoy this run: she cooed and [...]
is the name of a subhead in “Toward Nature-Inspired Computing,” from CACM 49.10. A snippet:
Users are viewed as information-foraging entities inhabiting the Web environment or as a collection of Web sites connected by hyperlinks. When an entity finds certain Web sites with content related to its topic(s) of interest, it will be motivated to search [...]