The Redheaded Penguin

Happy Easter!

Hmmm… empty desk… either I did a lot more than I realized today, or never got started…

As I was leaving work today I noticed there were several (5-6) squirrels running around a tree outside the building. Looking closer I noticed that most of them were pretty small in comparison. Turns out there is a nest in the tree. In the first photo I think there are 3 of them. The larger one facing the camera is actually on-top of one of the smaller ones and then the 3rd is further down the tree…

And here’s a closer look at one coming out of the tree…

Oh my exciting life…

I didn’t want to take another construction photo so soon after the last one, but when I noticed they were filling in some of the large trenches they dug a couple of weeks ago, I just couldn’t resist… though it is a little hard to make out in the background…

More rubble as they dig up the area between the Psychology Building and Taylor-Murphy (ie History Bldg) on campus…

UPDATE: Hmmm… apparently the server is having trouble telling time and now thinks it is May 25, 2002. This has apparently caused this post to “disappear” from the site, but hopefully once the server time is corrected, it will re-appear where it should be. I’m going to hold off posting additional photos until after the server time has been fixed…

UPDATE 2: Okay, I think I’ve figured out a way to go directly into the database to modify things to get this post to actually show up like it should. Having a modified date almost 6 years prior to it being posted really seems to confuse Wordpress…

UPDATE 3: Okay, that didn’t work like I planned, so I’m back to just waiting for my webhost to get the server time fixed and hope that solves the problem…we’ll wait and see I guess.

UPDATE 4: Seems we’re back in the present now and all the problems fixed themselves.  Now I can post the other pics and get caught up till today… which reminds me I need to figure out something to take a picture of today…

Just a quick mention to some interesting posts about educational technology and the internet from years gone by…

First, a series of scanned photos from a 1962 book about various “teaching machines“.

Next, we have an article from 1995 talking about how the internet really won’t change our lives very much courtesy of Newsweek.

And finally, a video about the power of the Internet, also from 1995 I believe…

Oh, and a hat tip to elearnspace where I actually found the links originally…)

It’s raining mud!!! Yes, the mud on the car is actually the result of muddy rain. Apparently there was a large dust storm in Mexico which carried over into Texas and mixed with the rain to produce the “muddy rain” event.

UPDATE: I’ve also seen some places saying the dust storm was in West Texas, but no really good links to point to yet from sources that I would trust… I’m still thinking this more likely came from Mexico since the dust storms from West Texas tend to have more of a reddish tint to them…

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! (Okay, so I’m posting this a day late, but anyway…) Here’s the tie I wore for my interview day along with some of the journal articles, books, and other misc. things I was going through in preparation for the interview and research presentation…

Okay, so it’s a little out of focus… but so was I after the first day of interviewing

Just another Milly picture… and yes, she had been rolling the grass…

and one of these days I’ll be able to get all the leaves picked up and the wind won’t immediately cover the yard in more leaves…

Once again we stopped by the Smart Car dealership… forgetting that they are closed on Saturdays… maybe this picture of their hours will help us remember next time, though the “closed” for Saturday kind of gets lost in the reflection of the white car…