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Life with a PDA
I’ve done it—started on a two-week trip without a laptop to do work on. I thought about the data I could analyze (look at the archives) and then rethought the move, for several reasons (risk and weight being two important ones). So I left the number-crunching for when I get back and took my PDA […]
Saving my life
I’m waiting here in a computer lab at the USF College of Education while a CD-ROM R/W drive writes all my workfiles to disk. I’ve been having problems using my backup facility, so I zipped my files up, sent them to my server-based directory, went here this morning, unzipped them, transferred them to the CD-ROM, […]
Working and Partying
Academics either have the last of the preindustrial jobs or the first postindustrial jobs, because we can work any time on our stuff but generally have flexible schedules. Today’s a good example. I have several things I need to do this week on the summer projects and writing, but it’s also my son’s sixth birthday […]
Most enjoyable transferable skills
Over the past ten days, I’ve carried on a correspondence with a graduate student at another institution who is having problems with her advisor and wondering if she can do anything with her skills if "professoring" doesn’t work out. Among other bits, I brought out our dogeared copy of Richard Bolles’ What Color Is Your […]
Choices
By Sherman Dorn on July 3, 2001
I’m considering this week an offer from Bowling Green State University to join their education faculty. The college of education there mailed the offer letter while I was on my trip out West. I had promised the interim chair of our department last year that I would give him and USF an opportunity to counter-offer, […]
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