Steve Ersinghaus

Susan Gibb has seen an eagle.

Big congratulations to my daughter, Kendra. She’s been accepted into Cornell University, along with two other very happy Simsbury High School colleagues. The pressure cooker’s now de-steamed.
We’re ecstatic here because K did all the work herself. While I had to work very hard at getting out of school, trying my best to fake illness, K [...]

Congratulations to Mary Ellen Molski. She has been accepted into Trinity. It’s been fun having her in class. At Trinity, in English, she will expand on her knowledge of Beowulf and the habits of writers. Hopefully someone at Trinity knows something about hypertext.

Boy did I get nailed with a cold this weekend. When that happens everything stops and I’m right in the middle of something too.
Oh well.

I’m not a big fan of comments on weblogs and I try to avoid them as much as possible. No, this doesn’t mean that Mary Ellen should stop writing comments into this space. It means that if she finds something interesting to comment on or add to, hence the above title, she should respond [...]

Well, that was easy. Podpress upgraded too.
Listen to the test.

 

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Time to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress and to initiate some minor housekeeping, such as developing a custom theme for the courses and new media weblogs, hopefully with lots of professional help.
Over the next few days there might be some holes here. But hopefully everything will go smoothly.

I forgot that I can link to the College, now that the website has been redesigned by the great Jim Revillini. I’ve been unable to link because of the embarrassment I felt at the last design, which served very few. I still think the header’s too large, but things are moving.
The new College look [...]

Good to see Neha having fun.
While lost in the darkness of the “classroom” and “politics of education,” teaching is essentially electric. When the opportunity arises. The formal settings come with the baggage of an industry that is hard and slow to change and react. That’s too bad. But we need fresh eyes. We also [...]

Mary Kate Hurley at In the Middle has an interesting post on history and the latest narrative jump in Heroes (links in original):
Hiro seems to be playing a role that’s difficult to imagine. Hiro’s influence in the past — pointing Takezo Kensei toward his “destiny”, hoping to restore a timeline somehow made different by his [...]

About college growth:
But few states have experienced student growth as rapid as Arizona’s. In 1990, about 31,000 students graduated from the state’s public high schools. By 2005, there were nearly 52,000 graduates. This growth is expected to continue, even if the local high schools do nothing to solve their dropout problems.
Although there are two other [...]

Wally Rorschach tells me that, proportionally, what we do to ourselves probably wont matter all that much. Some celestial tourcraft will come by and mention that cinder smoking at the corner of the window. “That’s where life struggled to get going over a billion years ago and a few billion years after that bickered itself [...]

Someone has stolen Jeffrey Cohen’s computer.
To the thief: You should return this computer. It’ll never be yours. Nothing good will come of it for you.

Yo-Yo Ma was amazing last night at the Bushnell. His performance and that of the crew was a lesson in intensity and collaboration.
Up was Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor. Ma was typically intense. He’d sway right and left, leaning toward the first violin and others around the front and second circle, talking [...]

This guy’s speech is just insane. No link.
The guy after him ain’t much better. No link.