Entries from June 2007

June 16, 2007

Once

Once is currently playing at the Angelika theater in Dallas, off of Mockingbird, at the 75.

This movie is excellent. Here’s a round-up of what critics have been saying.

June 11, 2007

Uses of Zoho Creator (online database creation)

I recently stumbled onto the suite of productivity tools put out by Zoho, which include a planner, slide show, chat, mail and word processing program. I was intrigued by Zoho Creator, which enables users to make custom databases for personal or public use, and with blog embedding capabilities. I realize that for serious database users [...]

June 10, 2007

Clearer is better

“Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.” Friedrich Nietzsche

June 9, 2007

Adventures in Paperless Grading

At the end of last semester I was faced with a decision. Either I printed out over 500 pages of student papers and take home exams or I graded them paperless, in microsoft word. The thought of slaughtering my printer or my departmental printer was too terrible, so I plunged in and tried to use [...]

June 7, 2007

Blast from the Past: Snapshots of Spanish TV in the 1970’s

These guys were great…

In 1980, Felix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish T.V. personality and naturalist died in a plane crash. The immensely popular duo of Enrique y Ana memorialized him in this classic song.

The Adventures of Marco literally traumatized a generation of Spanish children. A story of a boy searching, endlessly, and excruciatingly, for his [...]