Travel, Tech, Thoughts…
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Tampa in the News
I’ve found since I started teaching Sociology that being up-to-date on local news can be useful (though it is less useful at my new school where many of the students are from other cities). This leads me to read the local paper, which is often relatively quotidian – thefts, car accidents, political debates, etc. Occasionally,…
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2 reasons Florida is cool and one attraction to avoid
As luck would have it, the latest space shuttle launch coincided with our spring break. The only thing I really, really wanted to do upon moving to Florida was see a shuttle launch in person. So, when I saw a chance for us to go observe a launch, we jumped at it. Given it is…
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software everyone should know about
I run into people all the time who are fighting technology. Not everyone spends as much time in front of a computer as I do; and not everyone has the time I do to fidget with computers. But I think people could save themselves hours of frustration and thousands of dollars if they just knew…
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recommended software page
I added a page on here with some software recommendations. I talk to a lot of people who don’t know about this software, so I figured I’d put it on my website for anyone interested. If you have any suggestions I missed or I don’t know about, share!
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a couple minor political thoughts
I have two more posts on my trip to Princeton and Hartford, but I have to interrupt the narrative with a couple of political news items. First, whether you’re a fan of John McCain or not, you need to know that he has recently come out in favor of the completely nonsensical position that thimerosal,…
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stormy, stormy
This was a pretty boring day, really… Or, at least it seemed so at the time. We took my rental car back to the airport in Newark then flew, without incident to Atlanta. But that’s when things got a little weird. I noticed on a TV in the Atlanta airport huge blackouts in Florida. We…
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Trinity College
I spent the day at Trinity College, a non-sectarian private, liberal arts school in Hartford. I presented some of my research than sat in on a brainstorming session with the researchers who did the ARIS study working on new questions to ask in a follow-up survey. It was very cool to spend time with such…
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Hartford CT vs. another round in NYC
My work trip started Sunday while Debi and Steve got to spend another day in NYCity. I picked up a rental around around 9:00 and headed to Demarest, NJ where I met with one of the researchers from the institute I was visiting for lunch. From there I headed to Hartford, CT. I checked into…
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the big, big apple
We tried to get an early start into NYCity, but sleep won the battle against sightseeing… So we ended up taking a later train from Princeton to Penn Station than we originally planned. From Penn Station we took the Subway down to the Staten Island Ferry, which is the poor man’s way of seeing the…
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oooohhh, Princeton!
At the last academic conference I attended I became acquainted with a couple of researchers who are well known in the sociology of religion. Given our shared interest in the non-religious, they invited me up to Trinity College in Hartford, CT to give a presentation on my research and to get to know them better.…