I had a good friend and colleague that passed away sometime back. I wasn’t much older than his oldest children, so he often treated me and worried about me as if I was his son ... .
The Teton Dam failed fifty years ago this last week, and I have shared some stories with people about my memory of the flood that followed. As we were talking about it one day, my oldest brother, Mont, asked me ....
It has been 50 years since the Teton Dam broke, flooding the Snake River Valley. This week is the commemoration of that event. Once in a while, I hear someone say the word ‘celebration.’ We do not celebrate the flood ... .
It has been 50 years since the Teton Dam broke, flooding the Snake River Valley. This week is the commemoration of that event. Once in a while, I hear someone say the word “celebration.” We do not celebrate the flood ....
Professor Hoagland called and talked to the director of the computer center, where our class rented time on a CDC supercomputer. A student had forgotten the code to terminate his program in 7 seconds when it entered an infinite loop ....
As a young, new professor at a college, I was to be assigned a mentor to help me learn the ropes of teaching, along with all the other assignments I would have. When I arrived at work that first week, ....
Carol called her mother. “Mom,” she said, “is there any way you could watch Tina this Saturday? My real estate agency has some open houses, and they want me to cover them.” ....
I was in my mid-twenties when I joined the faculty of a small college. That year was our accreditation, and as part of our report to the accreditation team, we were supposed to write about the challenges we had as ....
In visiting with a friend, we got talking about some trouble we were having with technology. As we did, the subject turned to something I hadn’t thought about in a long time, the concern everyone had about problems that would ... .
In visiting with a friend, we got talking about some trouble we were having with technology. As we did, the subject turned to something I hadn’t thought about in a long time, the concern everyone had about problems that would ....