On the one hand, if the ESPN report today is true, then kudos to IU for keeping Kelvin Sampson’s name under wraps. I had my eye on Mark Few, Dana Altman and Keith Smart early in the process, and it sounds as if Few had first crack at it. But even with the rapid changes [...]
Future Pal
Some of my HCI friends might (maybe?) make fun of me for admitting this, but I really like SitePal. It would effectively double the cost of my web hosting to add this little Flash tool, but I really see a lot of potential to make it engaging and entertaining.
Alfordances
Well, if it is indeed predestined for Steve Alford to come coach at IU, then there’s no time like the present. With Coach Davis’ Hoosier career officially over with a tough loss to a great Gonzaga team, Alford’s convenient early exit makes him fair game (with permission from Iowa) to start talking the talk now.
I [...]
Jo Knows Fear
Fine. I watched “Wages of Fear” again, knowing there is no way in hell Amy will watch it with me. I saw it on the big screen in Chicago in one of those old theatres with the ceiling painted to look like stars. My friend and fellow ex-actor Mark Mendelsohn, who raved about it, [...]
Better Together
Lest our gentle readers get the wrong idea about my holed-up-in-my-cave work week, I am getting things done. In addition to continuing to plod through the stats collected from 6 months of PoliticWiki, I also finished reading a book — Better Together — that has great relevancy to my thesis work (now, and in the [...]
Hours gained, efficiency lost
Without the rest of the family around, I am not as efficient as I am with them. I spent the bulk of the day working on a lot of things, but I think there is simply a practical limit on how much work I can do withotu crossing my eyes. I wanted to read last [...]
New Book on Sleep
Mary Sheedy Kurcinka’s latest book is pretty good. I’ve read the No Cry Sleep Solution and liked it, although it didn’t necessarily make a huge change in anything we already did. It confirmed that we were on the right track with our nightly rituals, and it makes a great loaner for parenting classes. For the [...]