James O. Rigney, Jr., who wrote most of his books under the name Robert Jordan, died at around 2:45pm yesterday. The passing of any artist is tragic, but Jim’s loss is particularly so: only 58, he was still very much in the prime of his authorial life. His great epic …
From an article by the Washington Post’s Mary Jordan (via the Denver Post) about the rising numbers of people in the world who are moving away from religion and term themselves non-believers of one kind or another: Many analysts trace the rise of what some are calling the “nonreligious movement” …
Ah … an afternoon grading 101 papers. What could be finer? Well, a lot of things. Most things, actually. On the plus side, the papers are looking decent so far — not great, mostly Cs, but it’s early in the term. There’s time for things to get where they need …
Project LJ Stage 3: Enter the expensive. A series of fortunate events punches up my LJ timeline (items covered in detail below). $1000 — T-Max EWI-10000 Winch. $600 — Skid-row Nightcrawler Front Bumper. $400 — Jeeperman Trail Skidz. $375 — Smittybilt/Rugged Ridge Off-road Cargo Rack. $200 — Rola Pursuit Cargo …
3.2% That’s the percentage of my 101 students (mostly “knobs” — i.e., freshmen) who followed the explicit written and oral instructions on how to turn in their papers to me today. Three. Point. Two. The other 96.8% just lost a full letter grade. Plus, in my second 101 section this …