I was sure Cornell's Thanksgiving break had gotten longer since I was a student, but I couldn't remember the details. So, I had to dig up the academic calendar from the anaphoric years ( Read more... )

This morning's meeting included a brief but lively discussion about the nature of blogs, in the context of discussing CIT's planned blog service. (It's intended mostly for faculty and staff for projects and courses, not for public personal blog use ( Read more... )

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When I need to move all my stuff up two flights of stairs is the perfect time for the air conditioning in the building to be down. Or is the heat on ( Read more... )

J.R. just came into my office to ask how to spell it. Word's spell checker is accepting it either way, and of course letting him spell it both ways. (Spell checkers should note consistency or lack thereof.)

"email" vs "e-mail"?

"web site" vs "Web site" vs "website"?

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Microsoft Word just unexpectedly quit. I guess on the positive side, that gives me a moment to remember to blink while I relaunch it and see how much of what I've been working on for the last hour is still there ( Read more... )

The DVD of Dan's presentation that I was going to bring to campus for him was in my hand before I left my office for this meeting (my sixth of the day), but it doesn't seem to have made it here ( Read more... )

"That'll be... strong...," said Ron as I tipped all of the freshly ground Peet's Espresso Forte into the filter in the new thermal coffee pot. We took some of the grounds out to save for later, lest the brew be undrinkably strong.

It's the first time I've opened the bag of beans I brought back from San Francisco earlier this month; we dove into roosterhillfarm's ( Read more... )