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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, […]
Posing as Expert
Yesterday, a reporter from WCPN public radio in Cleveland asked me if I’d be willing to be interviewed on-air tomorrow morning about the Ohio testing system. Ohio’s state department of education released some test results last week, and I gather the station will run a story summarizing them and then asking me some questions. I’ve […]
Not working
Well, not exactly not working—I watered plants this morning, hope to play basketball with my son in a short time, and will fly up to Ohio for a work trip tonight and come back tomorrow night. I’m headed out for a memorial service in New Mexico on Thursday, so the "workweek" will be short but […]
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 […]
Life with a PDA
By Sherman Dorn on June 13, 2001
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 […]
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