I’m teaching English again this fall, but I’m not sure which class I’ll be teaching yet. It will either be English 101 or English 102. These are both freshman writing classes. In the 101 class, students read essays and then craft their own in response to them or on other topics but using them as [...]

The coding bug bit me this weekend, so I hacked around on wheatblog (wB) a bit and decided to release the changes as version 1.1. The previous release went out in October of last year. This new release includes the same comment spam protection I’ve been using here for a month or so now and [...]

I’m a product of public schools and public a public university, so I was happy to hear yesterday of a recent study, commissioned by the Department of Education‘s National Center for Education Statistics, no less, and conducted by ETS–the folks who brought you the SAT, GRE, and every other standardized test you can think of–found [...]

While I was waiting in line and the local Subway today at lunch, I saw Tony Snow on CNN and a banner across the bottom reading, “Snow: Lebanon deserves peace and democracy” across the bottom. And I thought, “Oh, God, is Bush going to drag us into yet another Vietnam? Isn’t one hopeless, senseless failure [...]

I’ve been lax on officially setting down my resolutions for Q3, even though I’ve had them jotted down in my notebook since before July 1. I’ve been afraid to commit to them, for whatever reason. But here’s the rundown: Cardio at least five days per week This means 20 minutes or better on the elliptical. [...]