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Just bought BarCode Scanner for my HTC Droid Eris. I can look up consumer opportunities and find the best deal. It turns out that the 9.5 oz. box of Hot Tamales price ranges from $3.00 at Amazon.com to $1.79 from … Continue reading →

The end of the semester is drawing near. The college book store has contacted me to determine if I am going to assign the same textbooks next year. Now is the time to explain the “beer money ploy”. I am … Continue reading →

What do you think of the title? My wife says I need a more positive attitude so I am trying. Actually, this is typically not the way things go. For years, many, many years in fact, I have been plagued … Continue reading →

This is a new addition for the category “excuses instructors hear”. My colleague Ric reports that he has been approach by a student asking for an alternative for an examination to be given on Wednesday. This request is pre-emptive. It … Continue reading →

It felt strange on campus today. Late yesterday the Board of Higher Education in North Dakota decided to retire the Fighting Sioux logo and nickname. I am still not certain how I as a member of the UND faculty for … Continue reading →

We spent the Easter holiday in Minneapolis. I like Minneapolis a lot. There are many differences between Grand Forks and Minneapolis. The size difference I get. With larger size comes options. There is the Mall of America. I can get … Continue reading →

No – a different Steve! My tech focus has brought me into contact with some interesting individuals. The Apple computers I acquired in the early 1980s caught the attention of Steve Mann who was an experimental psychology graduate student. I … Continue reading →

I was walking in from the parking lot to my office this morning following two women faculty members in high heels pulling those large rolling brief cases through the slush, snow, and ice. I am walking in my boots and … Continue reading →

People who use simplistic expressions they pick up elsewhere and think they are being profound annoy me (since I am a curmudgeon). “It is not about the technology.” OK, you did not create that expression. You probably heard it at … Continue reading →