Tales from the Technoverse

Category: history

  • On C-SPAN at the Karl Rove Book Signing

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    If I had a bucket list, which I do not (I suppose creating a bucket list is my one current entry in my bucket list), and if being on C-SPAN was on that list, it has now been met. Last year on December 12 we returned home from our entire family visit to Disneyworld and…

  • Cleopatra: A Life

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    Thanks to Ellen, I renewed, well, I got a new, library card. Now that I have an actual commute since my un-semi-retirement over to Largo MD where my offices at UMUC are, I download audio books from the Library onto my cell phone and play them over the bluetooth speakers in the car. This morning…

  • The Importance of Storytelling

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    Over the last year or so, I decided to focus a bit more on academic opportunities. I have attempted to become a better professor at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), helped start a non-profit focused on increasing academic involvement with government (ATARC), and this semester signed up for two graduate courses at the University…

  • Perhaps You Cannot Go Home, But Sometimes You Get Close

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    Monday at 10:30 am, I found myself at Northwood High School in Silver Spring MD with Bette Brotman Dolan. I went to Northwood as did Bette. When I was in high school, we both rooted for the Northwood Indians. In these politically more sensitive times it is the Northwood Gladiators. Evidently it is more acceptable…

  • Word Processing

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    “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”  “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – –…

  • A Visit to Cornerstone Christian Church

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    A few weeks ago, early on a Saturday morning, I found myself at the Cornerstone Christian Church in Richmond, VA, sitting in a chair in the Church social hall. Facing me were perhaps 15 young (and not so young) immigrants from various parts of Sudan. I had wrestled for perhaps two weeks since I was…

  • The History of Invulnerability

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    When I was young I was an avid comic reader, originally obsessive about lots of DC comics like Superman and Batman and later Marvel comics like Spiderman and the Avengers. Today I get to see all of these characters on the movie screen, the aging fanboy I guess I have become, without much regard to…

  • This Year’s Passover Sedar

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    I have previously posted about the Passover Sedar we hold at our house each year: https://www.ourownlittlecorner.com/2011/04/10/our-annual-passover-seder/ and https://www.ourownlittlecorner.com/2011/04/11/our-passover-seder-quotes/ In 2008, one thing we focused on was “We think about from what, to what, and what we have to accomplish to initiate and complete the transition.” This year we want to expand a bit on that:…

  • Why Is A Raven Like A Writing Desk or How I Literally Married the Internet

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    I find myself these days on a regular basis having discussions, for one reason or another, about the impact of Information Technology and inevitably the Internet on organizations, life, society, culture, and in general, the individuals having the conversation. About a decade ago, the first time I remember having this discussion with a friend of…

  • I Once Was Young And Now …

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    On weekends I generally try and get things done that I do not get to during the week, both at work and in my on-line classes I teach. However, almost always I am able to avoid accomplishing too much by wandering over to youtube and getting side-tracked in watching video’s. While I am wasting time…