Tales from the Technoverse

  • The Second Presidential Debate

    I was at a baseball game during the first Presidential debate and at a movie during the Vice-Presidential debate. I was happy to be at the baseball game and I enjoyed the movie. Sadly Sunday I was home upstairs working and wandered downstairs to talk to Ellen. I want to emphasize I was not sad…

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  • Pilot Lights

    This morning Ellen told me that we were having a problem with the stove pilot light (subsequently fixed by this afternoon by, as usual, Ellen). In a panic, I asked her if this affected the pilot light for the microwave. She assured me it didn’t, thankfully.

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  • Springtime in Largo

    After a big gap, which I will try not to allow to repeat, I am back and focused on my day job at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). My role as the Program Chair of the Information Systems Management (IFSM) Undergraduate Degree program means I have both academic responsibility for the quality of…

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  • Information Systems Management

    As I have mentioned a number of times over the last 18 months, I now work for the University of Maryland University College (UMUC), as the Program Chair for Information Systems Management in the undergraduate school, cleverly called at UMUC by the name The Undergraduate School (TUS). Since the undergraduate degree I received over forty…

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  • Stanley Cup Finals

    As I have mentioned elsewhere, there tends to be two kinds of fans rooting for their favorite team in the playoffs when that team loses. One type hopes the team they lost to wins the Championship The reason is that a case could be made that their team, their favorite team, which lost to the…

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  • Facebook

    I guess the story today is that mostly old people use Facebook, though of course that puts me right in the Facebook main stream. Having said that, it is clear that people, old or young, who do not use Facebook or at least one of the more popular social networks do not realize how much…

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  • That Third Party Option

    Third parties have not fared well in American politics over the last century or so, either having no impact on the Presidential race results though in a few cases potentially moving the winner from one party to the other (though not electing the third-party candidate). One example of the latter was when Teddy Roosevelt ran…

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  • Seder – 2016

    Every  year we are fortunate to have many friends who join us for our Passover Seder, and I am lucky to have married Ellen who plans, organizes, and works to make it a special event. My role is to find a bunch of quotes, see below, and lift and carry stuff up and down stairs…

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  • Clothes

    ME: “Ellen, I am thinking that I might, in the near-term future, throw out the pair of pants that are sort-of falling apart.” ELLEN: “Which one?” ME: “…” It is my feeling that Ellen and I even after all these years have not developed a common understanding as to the desirable broken-in status that clothes…

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  • The Exam Time/Dead Grandmother Syndrome

    Now that I am in my 3rd (4th?)(nth?) career, this one as an academic at the University of Maryland University College, I am lucky enough to be able to experience new events and learn new pieces of information. One of the areas which has become apparent is the seemingly consistent relationship between the fragility of…

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