To the Greyhound company: I have been unable to get schedule information about buses going from White River Junction Vermont to Boston Massachusetts from your website. It is obvious to me that the website was launched with no usability testing whatsoever since it is unusable unless you want to buy a ticket online. I don’t. […]
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we do not serve them well
Two of the faculty asked me to sit in on classes while they introduced the blogging platform we’ve set up. I really enjoyed getting a taste of what the school is supposed to be about – learning, education. I think that often those of us in departments that do not teach tend to forget that […]
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I had an old high school friend show up at my front door last Sunday. I hadn’t seen him since my 10th high school reunion, back in 1983. It was great to see him.He had news of all the old gang: Wayne and the Marko Man, Wolfie and Kim. Shawn and Kyle, Julia, Cathy and […]
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You know how sometimes when you are watching a movie on DVD, subtitles will just appear sometimes for no discernable reason? It happened to me this afternoon as I watched The Defiant Ones with Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis. Sidney is running down the wharf, pursued by the townspeople. “Get back here, boy!” suddenly becomes […]
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I’ve been thinking about this since I commented on Mr. MacIntyre’s Wildlife Biology blog, noting that the though small changes are easy to make, big changes, changes that really make a difference, are not as easy to do. I felt as though I had left an impression that small changes don’t make a difference at all and […]
Read the rest of this entry »Where’s George?
Once again I find myself feeling like an old crank when I tell you that I remember when the Internet was fun, boy howdy! Or at least wasn’t all slathered with advertising. I was reminded of that bygone era when my son broght home a five-dollar bill from the store this evening. It was stamped […]
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As I was driving home listening to a news show on VPR I heard a very serious young woman who had been investigating conditions for Iraqi police recruits describe conditions in the recruit barracks as : “debaucherous”. This is the sort of thing that drives me simply insane. (That and the numerous gaffes in the […]
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