Category: Miscellanea

  • Two words: “NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!”

    The Rice Owls beat the Stanford Cardinal 14-2 to clinch a national championship, our first in any team sport! Go Rice! Hats off to all the Owls, and special thanks to Chris Kolkhorst, Vincent Sinisi, Jeff Neimann, Wade Townsend, Enrique Cruz, Philip Umber, and, of course, the one and only Wayne Graham. We love you,…

  • Got ’em!

    Rice beats Texas 5-4 in the ninth, advancing to the CWS championship series and eliminating the Longhorns. Better yet, that puts us at 3-0 against our archrivals. Better still, we just eliminated the defending national champions. Best of all: both of UT’s losses in the CWS came at the hands of my Rice Owls. Yes,…

  • The EdBlog works again, and other topics

    The EdBlog “broke” at the end of May, when I found a ColdFusion MX limitation. (The last two entries had to be done by hand.) So, it took me a while today to fix it. It’s finally up, again. Much of my free time over the last two weeks has been spent assembling an online…

  • Bellsouth, DTS, etc.

    Well, today was long and frustrating… I have spent at least 20 hours of Campus Crusade’s time over the last week trying to get in touch with a system administrator for Bellsouth’s mail servers, but without any luck. Between customer service reps who don’t care, those who blatantly refuse to help me, and the vast…

  • “Thunderwood”

    “Today’s lesson, my child,” said the wizened, old guru to the impetuous, young fool, “is simply this: Never, ever, under any circumstances, cut poison sumac with a chainsaw.” Now, which of these characters best represents Ed? If you voted “wizened, old guru,” well, you haven’t spent enough time around me. Call me. We’ll do coffee.…