Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
From the night of Thursday the 17th until yesterday I was traveling. Seven states in seven days. Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. And of course back to Knoxville. We saw a lot of interesting places and collected quite a few road maps.…
I drove again today. I’m getting a lot better at using the left foot gas pedal. Monday I get to head out on the road, I’ve just been in a really big parking lot up to now. All other drivers and pedestrians consider this fair warning.…
Well, it’s official. I’m headed to Columbia, Missouri. I’ve been accepted to the Ph. D program in Information Science & Learning Technologies. They are currently in the process of finding financial aid for me. Sounds ominous doesn’t it?. :-)
Updated April 13, 2005: I got an assistantship at SISLT.…
Last week was a roller coaster. Monday and Tuesday were fine. Wednesday, Stephanie needed a day off, so she took it. Thursday, she had a day off and took me to my driving evaluation at Patricia Neal. That went well, looks like I’ll just be using a left foot gas pedal, not hand controls.…
I found the The Commonly Confused Words Test via Neil’s World. It looked interesting so I gave it a shot. Here’s how I did:
Advanced
You scored 100% Beginner, 86% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 55% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels’ questions correct.…
I finally have an on the road driving evaluation scheduled again, for Thursday March 10th at 8:45 a.m. I’m a bit worried about it, I haven’t driven a car since before the wreck. I’ve tried driving around a parking lot but I’ve never done anything more than that.…
Be afraid. You know that there is lots of information floating around out there about you. The scary thing is when somebody puts all the information in one place.
.:: PrivateEye.com ::. – People Search
At least someone has to pay to see the full records.…
Well, what happened this week? Stephanie and I spent Tuesday working on wedding stuff. We got the tuxes taken care of and figured out the wedding rings. Wednesday was fun. I had to teach in my information society class, that was no problem.…
It seems that American Library Association president-elect Michael Gorman doesn’t like blogs or bloggers. Any guess what? Bloggers don’t like him either. And it’s bad when people who blog about library and information science have such a major disagreement withe the head of ALA.…