The Times-PicayUnity March 5, 2000

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March 5, 2000

Melissa and I have just returned from a Unity Barn Raisers meeting, a three hour vision for the town thing. UBR is a community planning group that's been responsible for the new community center and a lot of downtown renovation. I got wind earlier today that the group was serving sweets but not coffee during the 3 hour session. Vision and coffee being inseparable in my mind, we brought a couple of carafes, and yes, vision happened.
At work I'm finishing up phase one of the online Catalog of course descriptions, prereqs, etc; I demo that for the campus CAOs (Chief Academic Officers?) on the 24th. The seven campuses of the University are independent minded and generally fussier than hell about anything done systemwide. So my little database has to provide online reports that will knock their socks off so that they will commit to using it. Keeping all the stuff in one central repository will allow systemwide course searches and integration with the legacy student information system.
Another project I'm working on is a web application/database for authorizing users of online applications in the UMaine system. We started a design for the database, then found a system similar to what we had in mind that is in use at MIT. We will probably borrow features from it. Universities are often willing to share knowledge like this with other universities.
About every six months I look around at my work situation and see if this is where I still want to be. My latest look around told me that other people who do what I do make a lot more money. So I'm looking at other possibilities. More money, less commuting are the basic parameters of the search. I'll keep you posted.
People in Maine, please skip this paragraph. It's for friends down south.
In winter people usually take their boots off at the door. Here are some of the boots I wear for a variety of winter conditions. Sorels (accent on last syllable like Shirelles) are Canadian boots with a quarter inch thick felt liner and gaiters that tie under the knee. Keeps the snow out of your boots. You can also wear gaiters with hiking boots to keep the snow from going up your pants leg.
Now we are just home from a birthday dinner party at Terry's house which is the parsonage next to the church. She cooked a turkey she gotten for Thanksgiving with all the trimmings. Fun party and no Christmas shopping to follow. Terry recently went to New Orleans for a seed conference and she visited with Dave Cash whom she'd met here this summer. It so pleases me when my friends are multiply connected into a network.

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Melissa and I have just returned from a Unity Barn Raisers meeting, a three hour vision for the town thing. UBR is a community planning group that's been responsible for the new community center and a lot of downtown renovation. I got wind earlier today that the group was serving sweets but not coffee during the 3 hour session. Vision and coffee being inseparable in my mind, we brought a couple of carafes, and yes, vision happened. At work I'm finishing up phase one of the online Catalog of course descriptions, prereqs, etc; I demo that for the campus CAOs (Chief Academic Officers?) on the 24th. The seven campuses of the University are independent minded and generally fussier than hell about anything done systemwide. So my little database has to provide online reports that will knock their socks off so that they will commit to using it. Keeping all the stuff in one central repository will allow systemwide course searches and integration with the legacy student information system. Another project I'm working on is a web application/database for authorizing users of online applications in the UMaine system. We started a design for the database, then found a system similar to what we had in mind that is in use at MIT. We will probably borrow features from it. Universities are often willing to share knowledge like this with other universities. About every six months I look around at my work situation and see if this is where I still want to be. My latest look around told me that other people who do what I do make a lot more money. So I'm looking at other possibilities. More money, less commuting are the basic parameters of the search. I'll keep you posted. People in Maine, please skip this paragraph. It's for friends down south.
	In winter people usually take their boots off at the door. Here are some of the boots I wear for a variety of winter conditions. Sorels (accent on last syllable like Shirelles) are Canadian boots with a quarter inch thick felt liner and gaiters that tie under the knee. Keeps the snow out of your boots. You can also wear gaiters with hiking boots to keep the snow from going up your pants leg.
Now we are just home from a birthday dinner party at Terry's house which is the parsonage next to the church. She cooked a turkey she gotten for Thanksgiving with all the trimmings. Fun party and no Christmas shopping to follow. Terry recently went to New Orleans for a seed conference and she visited with Dave Cash whom she'd met here this summer. It so pleases me when my friends are multiply connected into a network.