Fairs and such decades ago used to feature elaborate displays on what the future would hold. One staple of things to come was always the 'picture phone.'  A lady would be pictured calling a friend and each could, wow, see one another while they talked. Considering the strides in television and gosh what good is…

This article describes how Abilene Christian is using iPhones and such instead of dorm room computers. 

From Prof Judy Lewis  Audit I is now being offered at 5:30 on Mondays for the spring semester 2010 as a hybrid course.  I only have 6 students enrolled so far, and want to make sure that the course makes.  Since it wasn't in the original schedule, I am thinking some students may not realize we…

Sunday Dec 6 2009 Crescenio Davilla  and Jamie Rapp are selling the new t shirts and caps for student government. 

 That's Stefanie A Wittenbach, Head Librarian,  on the left in this shot. She is accepting a couple of worthwhile donations from yours truly to our new library at Texas A & M San Antonio. The donation includes about ten volumes on Community Colleges. The College of Education should be adding courses in that area in the…

The hot wide angle lens on the market right now is the Nikon 14-24 mm 2.8 zoom. And it's a technological tour de force. Exotic lens elements. Nano coating. Hyper Drive focusing (I made that up). And the consensus is that, wide open, it trounces all the lenses in the focal range. By a long…

I took photos at the COBA Speaker Series the other night, I can only post the guests though one of was particularly photogenic (well Donna and Maria and Cynthia are ALWAYS photogenic but) anyway I was reading another blog by a professional photographer. He was assigned to cover a seminar featuring numerous VIPs from the…