Category: General

I’m a regular volunteer speaker for the Classroom Plus program with BestPrep.  I get asked to talk to Middle School and High School age students about careers in Technology.  I tell my career story, and talk about technology and how it’s changed over my lifetime with the students.  The seem to enjoy it, and I…

Prince been gone patrolling the neighborhood for a couple of days, which isn’t surprising, because he was gone for a week a few weeks ago.  I’d been thinking about when he might return; I was thinking it would be in the morning yesterday, as he generally doesn’t like to hang out in the snow, but…

When I first arrived at the MN Department of Education, 5-Dec-2007, I was appalled that they didn’t have calendars setup as resources that you could invite to your meeting; they forced you to block the meeting on the room’s calendar, then setup the meeting with your attendees in your personal calendar.On October 3rd of this…

It continues to astound me that people will purchase cables from Best Buy at outrageous prices when they could get them at MonoPrice for 1/100th of what BBY charges.I went to help my buddy Charlie hook up some AV gear and he didn’t have all the HDMI cables he needed, so I pointed him to…

After being gone for nearly a week, and just as the whole family is deciding that the Prince of Darkness would never return to our house, and what we would do with the bag of food… at 08:36 this morning, he returned.  Much castigation and scolding ensued.Guess that three inches of snow we got yesterday…

Prince went out in the yard on Monday this week and we haven’t seen him since.  He’s done this before for a few days, but now I’m really getting concerned.  Guess I have to call Saint Paul animal control to see if he’s in jail.