Up until now the only President who was younger than I was at the time has been President Obama. Remarkably with Trump likely to seek re-election and active talk about Joe Biden running, Bernie Sanders…
If you liked Guardians of the Galaxy you will really like Guardians of the Galaxy 2. If you did not like Guardians of the Galaxy you are overly adult, an attribute, as I have pointed…
Ellen and I went to see Their Finest today and enjoyed it quite a bit. The movie is set in 1940 London and tells the story of create a film to glorify the rescue at Dunkirk both…
As I write every Spring, each year we hold a Passover Seder at our house inviting anywhere from 15-25 people over. It is a very special time for both Ellen and myself. Since I have…
Last night I saw a commercial for a prescription medication. When the patient started talking the printed text on the screen said “Actor portraying a real person.” What in heaven’s name did that mean?
These days at the University of Maryland University College, I find that my goals for the day revolve around my email in-box. Each day is a bit of a war, my goal is to end up with no more than the number of emails in that in-box than I started the day with.
Happy New Year to everyone, I hope that this coming year brings happiness to everyone including the ability to determine what happiness is. These days the most common thing that Ellen and I do December…
A significant number of students have taken courses at other post-secondary institutions that need to be looked at and credit given which can count towards achieving a UMUC degree. The process of doing this examination as you might imagine is sufficiently important enough to UMUC to result in a formal effort. The result of each review is what we call an articulation agreement defining how the earlier course ‘articulates’ to its UMUC equivalent.
For close to two years now, I have been the Program Chair for the Information Systems Management, IFSM, major for the undergraduate school, cleverly called The Undergraduate School (TUS), at the University of Maryland University…
Ellen and I went to see Hacksaw Ridge last night. Even Ellen, who dislikes Mel Gibson, who directed the film, intensely, thought it was a very good movie. The story was based on the real…