A collection of photography and exploration focusing on Upstate South Carolina and beyond.
This afternoon several of us attended the funeral of the father of one of our colleagues. One of the songs that the choir sang was “I Bowed On My Knees and Cried Holy.” The song contain the following lyric… I saw Abraham, Jacob and Isaac, Oh with Mark and Timothy. Oh but I said, “I … Read More “The Paparazzi of Heaven” »
I smiled a lot more today. There were kids, and most of them were smiling, too. The little bit of sleep I got over the weekend was punctuated with nightmares. I kept dreaming that all of my servers shut down on the first day of school. It has happened before, so there was reason to … Read More “First Day of School” »
Last night I pulled into our local gas station to feed the car, and to pick up a lottery ticket. After all, Powerball was at $210 million, so why not drop a buck or two for a chance to win. The lines at this place were incredible. First, right now it has the cheapest gas … Read More “Close Call” »
My determination to be more enabling rather than controlling has already gotten a severe workout, and the students haven’t even arrived for school yet. Already I’ve had one teacher request that we put in an Apple computer lab. We don’t support Apples in our district. I’ve had to deny other requests because they don’t meet … Read More “I hate to complain, but…” »
It’s that time of year again. Except that "that time" is about a week later than last year. The teachers officially returned to their classrooms today. We started the year as we usually do, with a breakfast celebration in our high school. Both our board chairman and our superintendent gave speeches on how well … Read More “The Return of the Teachers” »
Laura and I attempted to watch the Perseid meteor shower last Sunday night. Normally, we would hop in the convertible and try to find some dark sky. However, it was still dreadfully hot, and the clouds were iffy, so we just pulled chairs into the front yard and stared at the sky for awhile. I … Read More “There must be dozens of them!” »
I’m not sure how this slipped past me. Since I don’t pay attention to the RSS subscription notices on my Flickr page, I really hadn’t spotted it, but there it was… …a direct link to a KML file for my Flickr photos. But wait! Since this is a network link, it dynamically updates, loading … Read More “Native KML Support in Flickr” »
Confession time – I am not a neat person. This is born out by the deplorable state of both my home and work offices. For some reason, entropy intensifies around any space I occupy. While my real world may be cluttered, I like for my cyber worlds to be nice and neat. That means having … Read More “It Just Doesn’t Fit” »
Thursday we held our Technology Boot Camp for teachers that are new to our district. Each year I’m ambivalent about this workshop – I wonder about it’s effectiveness, but afterwards I often get thanks from the participants for having offered it. This year was certainly no different. I got a couple of very complimentary comments … Read More “Enabling versus Controlling” »
It happens every time I attend a conference. You drop your business card into various pots for drawings, and about six weeks later the sales calls start pouring in. I’ve already gotten several follow-ups from contacts made at NECC back in June, and the calls had not looked like they were going to diminish anytime … Read More “And the Winner Is…” »