So, I went onto the Saint Thomas website today, looking for my final grade – I did this last week but apparently may have been looking in the wrong place, since Dr. Lai doesn’t use the “Black Board” tool where grades were posted in our Technical communications class last Fall. Anyway, I found my grade […]
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Teaching kids computer science (AKA programming) [Pioneer Press article]
Front page article from last Sunday’s (4/27) Pioneer Press by Christopher Magan: Headline: Computer-coding classes teach students skills they’re not getting in school. Obi Abulu loves computers. “He learned to click a mouse before he learned to write,” says Attracta Abulu, the Woodbury seventh-grader’s mother. But when it came to learning more about how the […]
U/Saint Thomas – Fall registration, etc.
Second to last class session today. Working with classmates on group project tomorrow afternoon, and again next weekend each time for a few hours. Then, 5/18 is final class, 30 min presentation for group project, 2 homework assignments due AND the final exam. Group project is 25% of final grade and I think final exam […]
MM Orchestra lockout fiasco
Ok, I seldom read the star tribune these days, but I saw the recent article that the music director/conductor of the MN Orchestra has sent a letter to the Orchestra mgmt board threatening to resign, unless the lockout ends “soon”. Good for him, and I wish he had written it sooner. However, I was VERY […]
Pseudo Stepson Ryan – Antics
Gold Trail – went door to door, raising money supposedly for DARE – cops drop by. Dover – stole bicycle, cops came to the door. Dover – stole golf cart, lied for 7-8 months saying his friend gave it to him, neighbor on next street over complains he’s riding it on people’s front lawns, cops […]
ToastMasters First Speech Revisited (Final Version)
I gave my first ToastMasters Speech yesterday. Here is the text of the speech – clocked at a few seconds under five minutes. Mr. Toastmaster, Fellow Toasties/Toasters: I spent my first 5 yrs out of high school, going to college, with the end result being NOT a college degree, but rather flunking or withdrawing from […]
Recent events of pseudo-stepson Ryan
You may remember: The companion’s oldest (26 in Aug) son finally moved out of the house about a yr and a half ago, moving out-of-state, to Colorado, with a friend, “to work” (since he wasn’t able to find/get a job here for more than 2-1/2 years while living with us). At the time, we thought […]
RE: Boston Bombings on April 16, 2013
I am agnostic, I was brought up Baptist from age 4-5 to age 18-20. I still do not know whether God exists or not. HOWEVER, ever since 9/11 (and maybe before that event), I have strongly believed for many, many years, there is true EVIL in this world AND that there is a Satan. If […]
