Archive for December, 2005

The Ruling on Intelligent Design

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge John Jones ruled that public schools in the Middle District of Pennsylvania could not require the teaching of intelligent design. Citing well known arguments regarding the separation of church and state and the religious underpinning of the intelligent design argument, Judge Jones has set a ...

The Grandma Shuffle

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Ariele and I left Massachusetts on Sunday around noon time to head toward Montreal, Quebec. Ariele's sister goes to school in Montreal, and we made the drive up here to hang out with her and take her back to her parents place for their Christmas break. And, yes, Montreal is colder ...

Day One in Massachusetts

Thursday, December 15th, 2005

Ariele and I took a red eye flight late Wednesday night to Boston, Massachusetts. I am staying with Ariele and her family for a week, and then I will head to Texas to visit my family for another week. Two full weeks of vacation; I'm excited. We arrived in Boston around ...

The Reggie Bush Sweepstakes

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

I got a chance to watch most of the Colts-Jaguars game today, and during half time, and then again during the post game shows, I heard many, many references to "the Reggie Bush sweepstakes". Specifically, these references came when the talking heads were discussing the games between teams with poor ...

Keep Your Chin Up, Vince

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Reggie Bush won the Heisman trophy on Saturday night with the highest percentage of first place votes and the highest percentage of available points in the history of the award. Congratulations Reggie. I think the race deserved to be a little closer than it turned out. Vince Young, the quarterback ...

A Dashed Circle and Grid in LaTeX

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

I have only very recently begun to play with the graphics production capabilities of LaTeX. The most common means of producing graphics in LaTeX is the picture environment. It turns out the default picture environment is quite limited, and I needed to use the epic package to achieve the desired ...