At the end of every semester, the University of Southern California has students complete course evaluations. These include reviews of our professors and teaching assistants (TAs). Typically, professors don’t take these seriously at all. They’re passed out in the middle of one of the lectures towards the end of the semester, and then the professor…Continue Reading…
Tonight I went to a midnight showing of Disney’s latest computer animated movie, Meet the Robinsons (G). It was a 3-D showing– with 3-D glasses, dual projectors, etc. I was very impressed, and not just because of the superb presentation. It’s also a compelling storyline, and it’s told in a very entertaining way. Academic types…Continue Reading…
Yesterday I posted about how great Firefox’s upgrade procedure is. Today, I want to contrast that with an “Update Manager” that’s really terrible. It’s the Adobe Acrobat Update Manager, which for the last few days has wanted to upgrade Acrobat to 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9 Standard. It looks like it could happen all at the…Continue Reading…
OK, I’ve figured it out. I looked through a lot of trash and ended up with two really simple programs: Juice for downloading podcasts to your computer, and Shuffler for transferring from computer to MP3 player, assuming your MP3 player works like mine does (that is, it creates a drive letter, which is pretty typical)….Continue Reading…
Much of it is a marketing gimmick by the drug companies. The other part is that they cover up the symptoms. You get temporary relief, but not a cure. You’ll get better faster if you just drink more water and sleep more. This is especially true for colds and flus. I was reading comments on…Continue Reading…
I would think there should be a law against this. 2 + 2 = 3 So here goes my rant: never trust someone selling you something. … So, today I was staring at the price tags in the beverage isle and realized that the “price per unit” that they have convienantly calculated for you is…Continue Reading…