My Own Thoughts

One woman’s written responses to the world around her.

Archive for July 28th, 2009

Thoughts on wheelchair access

Posted: Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 @ 9:17 pm in Books and Reading, Writing | No Comments »

after talking with Jill. Don’t want to sit in front because if you need to leave, everyone is watching you. The back is preferable because you need a deeper space for the wheelchair. A good idea to fix the problem of wheelchair people not being able to see the words is to hand out copies [...]

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Fun Stumbles

Posted: Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 @ 9:14 pm in Fun Facts | No Comments »

Dwarfed Punk Handwriting Analysis Star Trek TNG trivia, very fascinating, some of it. Apparently I didn’t watch all of the TNG, though I thought I did.

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Very Cool Story in Pictures

Posted: Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 @ 8:07 pm in Books and Reading | No Comments »

Eric by Shaun Tan. Go! Now. You won’t be sorry. You shouldn’t miss it. It’s very … sweet.

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Thinking about the Past

Posted: Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 @ 7:50 pm in History | No Comments »

“100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About” from Geek Dad Terminals accessing the mainframe. Screens being just green (or orange) on black. Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load, and waiting ages for it to actually do it. Daisy chaining your SCSI devices and making sure [...]

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Overpopulation?

Posted: Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 @ 4:19 pm in Fun Facts | No Comments »
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What to major in

Posted: Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 @ 4:18 pm in Teaching/Ed | No Comments »

CNN Money: Top non-engineering fields. Only three of the 15 top paying degrees were outside the field of engineering — but they each still require math skills. For computer science majors, who specialize in programming and software, the average salary was $61,407. Graduates with degrees in actuarial science took home about $56,320; and jobs for [...]

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