It occurred to me this morning (early as it is, so don’t take this too seriously) that the people in my life who own iPods rarely talk about public libraries, and the people who visit public libraries, as far as I know, don’t own iPods.? I’m not suggesting anything as facile as David Brooks’s red [...]
The whole Burd clan got together for some Christmas light viewing tonight, and Wheeling’s Oglebay Park did not disappoint.? Once again, pictures will be coming at the beginning of the year. Looking at my weekly schedule for next semester, I think that I can reasonably take down three plays a week for the semester’s run [...]
Unsecured home wireless networks are great. I’m sitting here in Washington, PA, in my brother-in-law’s house, sponging the neighbor’s Internet.? He’s having another brother-in-law install a wireless network some time soon, but in the meantime, thank you, neighbor. The Indiana segment of the trip is over, and everyone seemed as healthy as one could hope.? [...]
We take off for Indiana early tomorrow morning. Do you think I’ll blog on the road? I’m not sure myself yet, but if I don’t post between now and then, I do wish all my readers a Merry Christmas, and I hope that each of your favorite versions of Dickens is on the television when [...]
I fiddled around with GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) a bit yesterday, and it’s got everything that I use on Photoshop. Once again, it’s amazing how a global community of geeks with vaguely socialistic leanings can design programs as good as or better than their expensive counterparts. I have been OpenOffice.org instead of MS Office, [...]
I had great plans for the week between my last paper’s being due and our Christmas trip.? I was going to read ten plays.? I was going to revise a paper for publication.? I was going to do all sorts of things. The problem, of course, is that those last days were not my own.? [...]
I think I burned my brain out double-grading.? I’ve nothing to write, and yet I write.
Maybe not, but the semester is over at any rate. I’ve tucked my freshmen’s grades away in the registrar’s computer, and I’ve got next semester’s classes loaded into WebCT. Now I can study, clean, pack, and perhaps even relax a bit between now and our Christmas trip. Amazingly enough, I dusted off an entire act [...]
I’ve posted the last of the Sunday school handouts on the Angels page.? I don’t claim to say anything systematic about angels’ appearances in the grand sweep of what Adorno calls the culture industry; I just picked out some interesting trends to talk about before I launch the discussion of Revelation 13-14 and angels’ role [...]
I finished up double-grading yesterday afternoon, and now the semester is officially over. I’ve still got three weekdays to work (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday–Mary’s got Wednesday off, so I’ll likely be helping her to clean and to pack) before we take of Friday for Indiana. I’m going to try to knock out three plays each [...]
Just got my grade report back for the semester, and I got a solid A in my religion seminar. My cumulative graduate GPA at UGA is now 3.99, all solid A’s except for that A minus in Old English. Before that, in seminary, it was all solid A’s except for an A minus in third [...]
I hate double-grading.? Some time yesterday afternoon, when I had submitted my own last paper to my religion professor, and having finished grading all of my own freshman portfolios, I should have been done for the semester.? As it stands, I still have anywhere from six to nine hours of solid grading to go.? Granted, [...]
Our digital camera eating batteries at the rate of four per hour, Mary decided to get me a new digital camera for Christmas. Since she wasn’t confident picking out a good one, we picked one out of Sunday’s newspaper circulars together, and these pics are the maiden voyage of the new vessel. Enjoy! Micah December [...]
This version of the blog has only been up since September, and I’ve already gotten a thousand readers.? Thank ye who read, and please keep coming back!
the more inclined I am towards the DNC.? Of course, then I log on to credoaction.com or some other DNC-affiliated web site, and I start to see the frustrations of the GOP.? I’m not surprised that I tend to be critical towards electoral pop culture, but I do sometimes wonder why other folks (elephants and [...]
My Favorite Ebay Posting of the Year I generally don’t post these kinds of links, but I read about it, and it’s just too funny not to.
“How Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky became pawns” I am one of those nerds who reads book reviews, and White King and Red Queen might be a leisure read for me some time soon. I figure I’ve got until about February for panic to set in and leisure reading of any sort to disappear until [...]
I’m now at the halfway point on portfolios, having graded twenty and having twenty yet to grade. I have to have these little boogers to the next teacher by Tuesday at 6:00, so I’m on a great pace. I’ve also got my revised Tuesday-Thursday syllabus done for Hebrew Bible and/as Literature in the fall.? My [...]
I’m now almost finished with one FYC section, and I’ve been pleased overall.? I think the deadline caught some of them by surprise, but in some happy cases the portfolios exhibit real development of thought.? Barring disaster, I should finish with both sections well before the Tuesday deadline.? Now back to ‘em.
I’ve crossed the ten-mark, and I’m chugging along.? The prose is typical freshman comp stuff; I’ve done as good a job as I’ve done in the past on the technical end of things.? On the revision exhibits, I really think I’ve either got a very talented group, or I’ve finally learned how to teach revision.? [...]
