QWERTY

When I taught 7th grade C0mputer Literacy, 0ne 0f the subjects we c0vered was the 0rigin 0f the QWERTY keyb0ard as well as several 0ther keyb0ard m0dels available t0 use. The QWERTY keyb0ard was patented by a man named Christ0pher Sh0les in 1868 f0r use 0n the typewriter. The first keyb0ard was actually laid 0ut…

Notes from the road…

With the advantages of laptops, free WiFi, and an uncanny ability to not pay much attention when I read my flight schedule ahead of time, I have a few extra minutes to kill while enjoying the friendly confines of the Harlingen International Airport. Aeropuerto internacional de Harlingen, if you are a local. Not many complaints…

Go figure

On the flight down to my island office, I finished a book that my cousin gave me when I was in CO. Knowing the source of the gift, I was a little leery about what it was or what it had to say. Actually turned out to be pretty good. May be the first book…

My office

Just a quick video to show everyone my office this week. I cut the sound cause it didn’t come out very well. The waves are great, the seagulls are hovering, the spanish is fluent. In the words

Not good

When I hoped for something to get the news outlets to forget about Don Imus and Anna Nicole, it wasn’t this

no real good excuse

for my lack of attention to this thing, more so probably just a combination of any of the following:    – no motivation    – writer’s block    – laziness    – way too busy to allot any timebut maybe I’ll make a feeble attempt at writing more often. random stuff: setting – temperature: approx 211F; time: a little…