Techie Trivialities

Com­puter and tech­ni­cal things that hap­pen in my Life

I spent the past day and a half down­town at the inau­gural Word­Camp Atlanta, which turned out to be one of the best technical/​professional con­fer­ences I’ve ever attended. Usu­ally I find that there is at least one time slot, and usu­ally sev­eral, where there is no pre­sen­ta­tion in which I am inter­ested. Not so this […]

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Fol­low­ing up with My Lat­est Spe­cial Snowflake: Dear Stu­dent, Rest assured, the grade you saw this week on your semes­ter grade report was the grade you EARNED in my class. Let me repeat that. I did not GIVE you that grade, you EARNED it. As far as dis­cussing that grade with you, I do not dis­cuss grades […]
Received via email tonight (per­sonal data changed to pro­tect the student’s iden­tity): hello pro­fes­sor this is ********** in your ********** class, accord­ing to a friend in the class that you gave back the exam 2 grades in class which i asked you for it before i left the class on mon­day, you told me you didnt have […]

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I was try­ing to pho­to­graph some of my chain­maille bracelets tonight to get them listed at 1000 Mar­kets and Art­fire. Pho­tog­ra­phy isn’t my favorite part of the process, but tonight was par­tic­u­larly aggra­vat­ing. One prob­lem I’ve had in the past is get­ting a clearly focused pic­ture because I run into depth of field issues. In automatic […]

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In case you didn’t notice it, there was no blog post last night. It was a crazy but fun day, but at the end both Dee and I were wiped out. I got up yes­ter­day and got on over to Roanoke Col­lege to make sure my pro­gram­ming team was ready to com­pete and to answer any […]

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