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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 →

The curmudgeon has found a new radio station – Kona FM 105.3 – “Music that was popular when you were“.

I learned the basics of writing code out of necessity. This was the way things were done in the early days of the “personal computer’. It took a while before many commercial programs were available and it was just kind … Continue reading →

We curmudgeons are everywhere and we do many different jobs.

The concept of digital natives drives me crazy. The idea, as I understand it, is that those who have grown up with a technology embrace it in a more natural fashion and thus do not use it in ways compromised … Continue reading →