Overview Childhood (1990s) The first computers I remember using were the Apple II computers in my elementary school in the early 90s. The Apple II Wikipedia page says they were first released in 1977 and discontinued in 1993, so they were already old machines when I started using them. As far as I remember, you […]
Ordering I watched the Pixel launch event live stream. I pre-ordered the Google Pixel phone within minutes of when it was available on launch day. About a week later, I talked myself into changing my order from the 32GB model to the 128GB model. And then I waited. And waited. My original order was placed […]
This is definitely my favorite semester of teaching so far in my career. I’ve been looking forward to it for a while because it’s the first semester I’m teaching only courses for our department majors (not courses for the general population). I’m teaching 3 classes: Transitions to Advanced Mathematics (an intro-to-proofs course for math majors […]
At some point last year, I wiped my home desktop totally clean and did a fresh install of the operating system (Fedora 23 at the time, since upgraded to 24). I’ve been curious about Linux Mint for a few months now and I want to try it out. I tried and failed tonight. Over the […]
There’s Got To Be A Better Way Late last semester I had a bit of an epiphany. I had no good answer to the question “Why am I using printed lecture notes during class?” In my head, I started to think about my ideal replacement for paper lecture notes. For some parts of some classes […]
This summer I set up my own server at home. I did a LOT of research and reading about becoming a sysadmin (or a mini-sysadmin), and I’m still doing a lot of reading and research. The number one thing I’ve learned, though, is that the internet is still a scary place. Reading system logs I […]
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