One of the perks of my travels around Massachusetts for the Commonwealth project is that it takes me past a lot of small burying grounds. I like these old cemeteries, especially the way they present cross-sections of place and styles through time. The smallest, which are usually in the middle of nowhere now, […]

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If you haven’t already, let me know what you would like to see inside our house. I’ll be posting pictures sometime in the next week, and would like to have more than just two (2).
It can be anything. Almost.
Leave a comment. It’s quick and easy.

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Things finally settled down after our vacation, Independence Day, and The MathWorks’ annual summer outing to Mt. Washington, New Hampshire. (Sort of. I’m in Wisconsin right now. But more on that later.) So I finally got the chance to see a couple of photography exhibits with Lisa last weekend.
First up: “In […]

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Dear President Bush,
I am 31, and I have a paperweight for a pancreas. Seven years ago, on the Wednesday after Labor Day, instead of getting on a plane to teach MATLAB to researchers at the NIH, I went to my doctor who checked my blood glucose and sent me to the hospital. The […]

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Steve mentioned that he had trouble posting a comment here — something about how nice it was to be honored along with the cat. It has been a little quiet here. Are those crickets I hear in the background?
So I need your help, dear readers. Please try to leave me a comment. […]

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Yeah, this tribute to NESN broadcaster Hazel Mae is creepy. But who doesn’t admire TV anchorpeople?

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I’m going to graduate school!
Unless the Brandeis IT folks are playing a cruel trick on me, I take the e-mail below to be a pretty good indicator that an acceptance letter will soon arrive from the Rabb School’s Master of Software Engineering program:

Dear Jeffrey Mather -
We have created a Brandeis account (aka UNet ID) for […]

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First off, my deepest sympathies to everyone affected by today’s train bombings in Mumbai and my solidarity with all Indians. It’s a terrible event that no one deserves.
But, dear Father-in-Law who is worried about our safety as we travel abroad, there is no need to tell dear Mother-in-Law “I told you so” about today’s […]

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Articles from the print world . . .
At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust (The New Gender Divide)

A quarter-century after women became the majority on college campuses, men are trailing them in more than just enrollment.
Department of Education statistics show that men, whatever their race or socioeconomic group, are less likely than women […]

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Have you seen the brilliant new Mac commercials with the guy/Mac who talks about all of the fun things he can do right out of the box? Well, that’s me. I’m whittling down the one hour and forty minutes of video footage from our trip into something more watchable. Maybe something like […]

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See what we saw and read all about it.

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Carl Crawford just stole home against the Red Sox. The first time I’ve seen that.
Score that a single through the gap. He stole second, advanced on a sacrifice, and stole home.

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As I mentioned last week, we drove from Cincinnati to Milford to return home from our vacation.
Why do I mention this again? Not for pity. (No, no. We’ve done many of these long, day-long drives over the last couple decades.) I like a good trip.
Rather, compare how long it took for […]

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In the waning days of our trip, we spent a fair bit of time along the banks of the Ohio River. Our first glimpse was along the bluffs outside Leavenworth, Indiana. That was on day one of a two-day impromptu scenic drive through southern Indiana. The first day we stopped in Louisville, […]

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