So evil Kerasotes has a plan to roll back the clock and charge 1980s prices for 2000-something movies. For $5 and a couple of weeks of shine off of a new release, one can get admission to see any of the host of great movies on tap for summer ‘06.
Here are the ones I am [...]
The Summer of Half-Sawbuck Movies
my Kind of lawn
This essay almost makes me want to take better care of our yard. What it really makes me want to do is order a foot and a half of topsoil to cover up our ugly yard and start over, but I’m not sure how realistic that plan is.
My kind of umbrella
Forecaster Umbrella
Better than Weather Underground. because it’s portable. and blue.
Gradjeation Day
The end of spring semester has been difficult two years running. Spring ‘05 was due to an impossible schedule (4 classes & CHI), and I limped out of the first year with a lousy late paper and a second incomplete one. Spring ‘06 was capstone, capstone, capstone, and my final sports informatics project suffered as [...]
It’s all over (but the grading)
HCI/d 2 presentations concluded yesterday in our long rescheduled session. Seven presentations in 4-5 hours.
Justin Donaldson, Nate (Finelight, here in town) and Elizabeth Boling stepped in at the last moment as judges. It was a scramble to find three people willing and able to spend a half-day this week absorbing that much information. It was [...]
Fantasy Olympics v. Electrical Storm
I think my project is about to lose this battle. As I sit taking a short internet break in my frenzied re-prototyping of a sports informatics project, lights are flickering and dramatic lightning is again on the horizon. In this house, we can sneeze too violently and our power goes out. I’m not optimistic the [...]