The fall semester has started, and on Tuesday evening I went to the first session of HUMAN 007, International Film. This evening I had the first session of BIOSC 015, Human Heredity and Disease.

Two weeks ago today, I paid $12 to De Anza College to get a “rush” official transcript, then took that transcript to Mission College and paid a $5 fee for transcript evaluation, which takes two weeks (no rush service available).
Today I went back to Mission College, waited in line 25 minutes, requested my copy of [...]

I had to go back to junior high school to take four classes I’d somehow missed, in order to satisfy requirements for my degree program, though I was worried that they might not accept them. Outside the school on the first morning I met the teacher from one of my classes back in 1978, [...]

I just committed the KML files and graphics for the HP-22 and HP-27, the graphics being based on Maciej Bartosiak’s graphics for other models.  I have poor graphic art skills, so the 27 artwork could be better.  But at least there’s finally something; I’ve had the ROM dumps for a long time but without suitable [...]

I haven’t written about Nonpareil in over six months. There’s been some progress, but it’s been very slow due to work and school. I’ve been improving the build system (SCons-based), and hacking up a new “Cbutton” widget for the calculator buttons and slide switches, based on the GtkButton widget. This will allow [...]

Happy birthday, Jasmine!

Their current state motto is “Live Free or Die”. But since recent court rulings in New Hampshire have eliminated the “Live Free” choice, it appears that dying is the only choice remaining to citizens of New Hampshire.
I’ve previously mentioned the Gannon case in Nashua, where police charged a man with violating the state wiretapping [...]

I’m not Islamic, so I never expected to take a position defending Islam. But several people have forwarded me email purporting to explain how “good Muslims” cannot be “good Americans”. This is such a distortion of American law and liberty that I can’t let it slide.
The quoted sections below are from the original [...]

My grandfather asked me to accompany him to the airport to examine a new exotic grass species which had been spotted there.  It was superficially similar to zoysia, but rather than a root structure forming conventional sod, it tended to grow along a line (not necessarily straight), with thousands of blades growing from a single [...]

My grade for the Linear Algebra course showed up online yesterday (and was an A as expected), so I went to De Anza college this morning and picked up some official transcripts, and dropped one off at Mission College this afternoon with a transcript evaluation request form and the $5 transcript evaluation fee. They [...]