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Usefully erroneous assumptions
One of the ‘baristas’ at Chain Café has just brought me a drink. I wonder why, apart from the fact that I’ve been a very loyal customer over the past n months. I wonder if they think my marriage is on the rocks and I come here as a respite from home. It isn’t—I’m working […]
Disk crash
It’s not a good thing when my work laptop wouldn’t load because of a corrupted systems folder. It’s probably a good thing that I know what to do at this point (download the latest version of Knoppix, transfer essential files, and then turn the laptop over to our college computer gurus), but this is the […]
I like memory
I was able to swing by my campus’s computer store this more and install a GB chip in this laptop. Whooeey! Going from 512 MB to 1.25 GB makes a big difference in working with several complex programs open (for me, typically Outlook and Adobe at the same time starts slowing things, but not right […]
Caring and teachers
See my contribution today to the new group blog The Wall. See also Leo Casey’s note in a similar vein, which I only ran across in preparing the entry. Update (3/29): Read the comments on the post, now, which discuss whether my observations are new at all and whether we should be teaching caring as […]
John Kenneth Galbraith
By Sherman Dorn on April 30, 2006
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith died last night in a Boston-area hospital. He was 97. I started reading him as a teenager, one of my aunts became an economics major because of his writings, and we will miss the voice of one of the best public intellectuals in the U.S. in the 20th century. He was […]
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