This semester should be jam-packed. I have my normal Friday classes, my job as interim director, and an extra class on MW that I haven’t taught before. I think I have a good handle on what it will be, but it’s always better when I have a few classes under my belt. At this point, I’ve done the intro class and we start the real stuff next class, where the learning hopefully starts.
Monthly Archives: August 2017
Mix CD 4 – Homey is where the Heart is at
Sometimes, I look back at young me and just shake my head at my idea of clever names.
Solar Eclipse
Today, there happens to be a total eclipse over North America meaning I have a good chance at seeing it occur for what is a “once-in-a-lifetime” event. Supposedly the last time this occurred was in 1776, which was a momentous year. Will this year be as big a deal? I do know that this time around, disc jockeys on the radio are getting great play out of sun related songs like “staring at the sun” and they feel awfully clever about it. Although I guess if I was on the air in college and something like this occurred, i’d probably have my own solar eclipse playlist so I can’t chastise them for it.
Abandoned Links
I was looking through the database from my old site because of an email I got as I detailed in the previous post and got interersted in what was in there and how to get it on this site. Using some excel skills I tweaked the various tables and got a condensed sheet of all the old posts, all 6832 of them… Continue reading Abandoned Links
The lengths one will go for a sale…
I recently got several emails from a company selling desks online, persistently trying to get my attention, because supposedly I wrote about their desk on my website at one point. They want me to sign up as an affiliate to help sell their desks. I tried the link they provided that was supposedly from my mention, but it didn’t resolve. Seems sketchy right? Continue reading The lengths one will go for a sale…
Great comedic timing…
I was browsing some forums and these were the top two threads… what great timing.
Autorip
I have to say that Amazon has a great thing in their ‘Autorip’ program. For those that are unaware, a good portion of the physical music they sell includes a free MP3 version of the album so you can start listening as soon as you order. As well, it’s part of their ecosystem then so you can tell Alexa to play it and it just knows you own it now and queues it up. Considering some of the physical cds on sale are super cheap and you get the original disc and the new fangled digital, it’s a great bargain. I just wish they did this for book/ebooks too. I’d be buying so much more from them if that was the case.
MixCD 3 – Trancelvania
Escape
Over the weekend we did an escape room, my first foray into this new trend in entertainment. The particular place we went was one that was located in a historic site and they actually themed the escape room around that which was a nice touch. Continue reading Escape