Imagine throwing yourself down a snowy peak with nothing but a board strapped to your feet. As you hurtle toward the base of the mountain, you swerve your body back and forth to avoid trees and rocks. You fly into the air as you launch off small swells and bumps. You pray you won’t fall [...]
I’ve been talking about how my Twitter bud @kokogirl started up the Twitter Trim Up Challenge (#TTUC) this month. At first I didn’t really think about it but have been quite interested and excited to fully commit!
On Monday I wrote about my goals and some of the smaller goals that would get me there. [...]
Many thanks to the whole Prawfs crowd for having me here. Throughout the month I’ll try to blog a bit about constitutional law and being a first year law professor, but I’m going to start with a question of much broader significance: Why are instant replays in the NFL (or in any other sport) subject [...]
The University of Virginia soccer team won the national title last weekend which, given the school’s performance in football and basketball these days, was a welcome gift for the Wahoos and their long-suffering alumni, of which I am one.
The way that UVA beat Akron, however, leaves something to be desired. The game for the national [...]
Modern ruck sacks are more than a picnic satchel with a couple of shoulder straps. Depending on the activity, sought after features of a back pack may range from a ventilated back panel, insulated hydration system, ultra light-weight fabric to built-in avalanche safety devices. A backpack is the perfect gift for devoted skiers and other [...]
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Since computer users, both individuals and businesses braving umpteen errors either with operating systems, software applications [...]
The number of workers having to use computers in their jobs continues to increase. However, not all employees enjoy computer work at the same levels, and for those who do not enjoy computer work, negative outcomes are likely to result. Further, it is important to examine how work-related support from either supervisors or coworkers will [...]
Parents of teenagers know how hard it can be to get them to talk about their personal lives, especially when it comes to their health. Luckily, though, a new study from Nationwide Children’s Hospital shows that allowing young people to confide in computers could make a dramatic difference in their healthcare.
Results from a study recently [...]
A few years back I worked at a help desk for gas station point of sales equipment. That’s fancy talk for cash registers. Later on we supported touch screen computers and fancy-dancy gas pumps with computer chips in them that “talked” to the store’s main computer through a binary to TCP/IP converter, and the breakdown-daily-car-wash-box. [...]
Students across North Carolina practice penmanship and learn about civic engagement by writing letters to state officials. We receive several letters every year – not from students, however, but from grateful school administrators who would not have working computers without the help of the State Surplus Property Agency.
“I wanted to say thank you for all [...]