homoLudens

This dog is gone. Vancouver airport offers an $8 for an hour Internet
service and Air Canada provides an hour and a quarter delay before the
Shanghai departure. The iPod (Unbelievable travel amenity!) is charging
across the way and coffee sucks. (Because I did NOT drink Starbucks, Nathan!)

It’ll be a summer of travels. Post Shanghai, back to SF for some BAWP
and BAYCAT action, a good chance for some mountain travel after a stop
off for Blog Boot Camp II in Bakersfield with the Bel * lericos.
Nothing like a new-used air conditioned truck to make summer Central
Valley travel at least conceivable. Then off to Amsterdam to make web services offerings to the propitious santos who’ve blessed this unexpectedly successful first year of tech at Galileo.

All of this peripatetic self-indulgence ennabled by dog-less-ness. I
miss the mutt, the home-boundedness of houndliness, the slow,
untraveling pause for park and hill and neighbor.  He treed us for good. San Francisco is home now, irrevocably.

Thanks, Harry.

 

 

??? where I’m promised broadband, air conditioning, and more linguistic humility. Blogopoly’s last two  days are in the capable fingertips of David Barrios and Joel Arquillos
and the rest of the crew. Sans major internet connection meltdown,
success is guaranteed. I knew it yesterday when I walked into the
library back lab and witnessed four students (3 SLAC-ers,
1 webteam member) quietly and patiently explaining things to six
silently rapt teachers. Some of it was tech arcana, but I also heard a
question like, “If I wanted to have the website do this for my second
and third period classes, how could I use this news item thingie?”

Limitless (teaching credentials come with a lifetime supply) kudos to Loi, Nate, Rafael and Zack. (See Zack’s slideshow
of the first day.) If we’re the pioneers in this digital reading and
writing stuff, they’re the scouts. They know the territory far better
than we EVER
will. Our gratitude is in our websites and in our work.