I got a grammar lesson from Todd “Now we’re cookin’ with biscuits” Sullivan. An unlikely source at best. I said something to the effect of “He drives in forwards.” When he mocked me, I didn’t even understand. And it wasn’t because I was talking about Han Solo flying the Millenium Falcon into an asteroid crater inhabited by a giant, space sock-puppet. He had to explain it plainly for me to understand that “forwards” was not even a word.

I can’t remember how it happened, but I came across Tom Murphy 7’s Invincible Web Page a while ago. He has a great page of his Illustrated Notes from Computer Science. The notebook illustrations are really fun.
I think at some point, I stopped doodling in my notebooks. In college I didn’t take many notes, and [...]

The conversion of ericholsinger.com from a static website to a blog went very well. It was pretty time-consuming because I was doing it after having done almost no research at all.
I basically culled a few choices from a comparison of downloadable blog software. Then I made a “gut instinct” decision to try wordpress. It installed [...]