A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post that showed student achievement was not what made a difference in whether students persisted in playing our games. With the exception of a few students who were very low achieving, e.g., non-readers in fourth-grade and up, there was little difference in the pretest scores of students…
I was going to write more about graphics using SAS but I realized it was a Friday before a three-day weekend and most people don’t want to think about work – and that is the point of this post. Many of the people who I know have done a far better job planning for retirement…
One of my concerns not being able to use my left hand has been how I’m going to be able to continue coding. As my job entails a lot of coding, this has been a major worry. While I have yet to figure out how to use Dragon for JavaScript – I’m not sure at…
So this is attempt number two with voice recognition software. Now that I have my new custom splint on and I look something like Darth Vader with the robot arm I thought I had better not just keep doing the same thing that caused this problem in the first place. The arthritis in my hands…
you can make anything into an opportunity. For example today I had this very unpleasant operation on my phone actually that was my thumb not my phone. as you may have guessed comma I am now writing using a piece of voice recognition software. It’s a Google Chrome extension. this makes me happy for two…
Since it’s the 4th of July, I figure no one is very work-focused today and it would be a good time for one of my occasional rants. I read a book this week, The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf. It was a good story for a lots of reasons, a primary one being that it…
It’s been a good week for the darling daughters. The Spoiled One graduated summa cum laude, also president of the senior class, and is heading to the east coast to attend a small liberal arts college where she has an academic scholarship and a spot on the soccer team. The book co-authored by Darling Daughter…
In a very random life event, I was asked a lot of questions recently by people exploring making a movie about my life. This is not the interesting part, because in Hollywood people are always talking about making movies that come to nothing … The interesting thing was how many times the answer to a…
Since I already called my mom on Mother’s Day, I thought that I’d talk about another woman who was important in my life, a mentor, who I probably haven’t talked to in 20 years. (I know, I’m such an ungrateful bitch. ) Dr. Jane Mercer was not even in the same department as me. My dissertation was…
Whenever you find yourself overworked or tired out, it’s easy to get upset out of all proportion when something goes wrong. The usual advice to avoiding stress – “Be sure you get enough sleep. Work-life balance is important.” – can be like telling runners at a track meet to run faster. It is correct but…