notes and rants

Yesterday, I visited my old college campus for a day long meeting (I recently joined the alumni board for the school of arts and humanities). The campus has changed so much since I went to school that it’s hard to be too nostalgic, but it’s always interesting...

One of my readers (I'm so happy people actually read this thing) asked: Could you share some tips on how you find the best answer? This is a perfectly fair answer that I should have a great answer for - but interestingly, I don't. I suppose the best tip...

For some reason, I’m expected to know things. The truth is that I don’t know that much – but I am usually good at finding answers. I owe all of my success to a Methods of Research course I took in graduate school. The typical homework for the week included...

<no test content in this post> For those of you not from the Seattle area, I'd like to enlighten you to something we call the "east side". There's a big lake (Lake Washington) that separates Seattle (where the cool people live) and Microsoft...