I guess it was announced late Friday, but I didn’t realize until I opened my email this morning that former president Bill Clinton was going to be speaking today on campus. So I headed over and listened to his speech, in support of Hillary’s bid for the presidency. I’ve seen Bill speak before (once back [...]

I’d given up hope on my 4th generation iPod. It had been my daily companion since I got it for Christmas a few years ago. A hard-drive issue sidelined it earlier this year, and I was too busy to deal with it. I did a little research, tried resetting it and restoring it via iTunes [...]

A few days back, my wife was ordering something from Amazon.com and needed to bump the total up a few dollars to qualify for free shipping. So she checked out my wish list and added David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster. I had heard a lot about Wallace, but, prior to this, I had read [...]