Miscellaneous

Stuff that doesn’t belong any­where else.

My brother Chris is a fel­low ani­mal lover and res­cue vol­un­teer, recently join­ing forces with Our Pal’s Place here in Mari­etta (I use the phrase “join­ing forces” advis­edly because my brother is a force to be reck­oned with!). Among the many tasks he takes on for them is being K9 coach, trainer, and friend of […]

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Whoa! If you Google me by my maiden name, Julia Ben­son, I’m no longer on the front page except at the very bot­tom with my Google pro­file! Appar­ently some young, very well-​endowed Cana­dian actress of the same name made her debut on Star­gate Uni­verse this fall and has taken over. We other Julia Bensons — […]

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I had good inten­tions for this five-​day week­end, I truly did. Like so many of my good inten­tions, they didn’t get com­pletely ful­filled. I was going to: catch up on the mas­sive grad­ing back­log. Well, I at least sorted out the papers and graded a lit­tle bit. A very lit­tle bit. get a bunch of items listed […]

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The orig­i­nal post of “33 Ques­tions For An Inter­view With Your­self,” by Dra­gos Florin Roua, is at http://​www​.dragos​roua​.com/​3​3​-​q​u​e​s​t​i​o​n​s​-​f​o​r​-​a​n​-​i​n​t​e​r​v​i​e​w​-​w​i​t​h​-​y​o​u​r​s​e​lf/ I liked Dra­gos’ ques­tion list enough to bor­row it for a blog post­ing, so here goes: 1. What Do You Do For A Liv­ing? I teach com­puter sci­ence at a two-​year col­lege. I also make and sell lam­p­worked glass beads […]

Hmmmm

On this date in 2009, noth­ing of sig­nif­i­cance hap­pened. CSCI 1300 stu­dents took their third test, I failed to make it to dance class because of that, Trader Joe’s in Sandy Springs ran out of fresh cran­ber­ries, and Donny Osmond won Danc­ing With the Stars, prov­ing he’s not all washed up at 50. How many […]

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