The Dark Side

My transformation to The Dark Side is mostly complete: I now have a Macbook.
Work: iMac
Home: Macbook
Pocket: iPhone
Too many forces pulling me to Macside; the Emperor, Darth Jobs, is pretty persuasive. The educational discount helped, too- oh, and the free iPod Touch.

Volunteering

I’ve been considering some more concerete ways to share and help others, so I found a site called volunteermatch.org, where you can find out about volunteer opportunities. From there, I found out about a site called in2books.com, which is part of epals.com (an online education cooperative).

Back at it

Been back a week now.  Teaching my first online class – it finished this week – has been challenging technically, because the publisher I’m using had some server issues.  At any rate, we had a very nice trip, and got to catch up with a lot of family and friends.  The entire Knapp clan was [...]

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Yosemite#4

Today was the last full day. Tomorrow we eat and head out; we’re going to try and stop by the Mariposa Seqoias. It was another beautiful day, but with clouds – always the photographers friend – less boring skies.
We went to Vernal Falls, well, part of it. We did the part to [...]

Yosemite#3

It’s understandable why Yosemite is such a popular spot – it’s just incredible, and you never get tired of staring at these amazing sights – it’s like watching a fire. Today was another gorgeous day. Late afternoon we finally got some clouds and very light rain.

Yosemite#2

Another beautiful day – wonderful.
A few more pics (man, my sensor has a ton of dust bunnies – I need to get it into Nikon!).

Yosemite#1

A few shots from our first-ever trip to Yosemite (these are quick-edits from Picasa – no PS yet). These are from Yosemite Lodge Falls (lower). The rock the girls are on is a natural granite slide.

Choosing your attitude

A student sent this video to me, and I think that it perfectly illustrates Victor Frankl’s philosophy (and one of my all-time favorite quotes):

More mountains

The excessive rain we have been having this “winter” has provided some stunning views of the local mountains, and quite a bit of snow on the peaks. Here’s a couple more pics. Both are just down the street from our house. The first is judiciously cropped, but yes, it really is Long [...]