Reminded me too of my almost-appearance on 10K Pyramid, back in the day. I’m sure they whacked me when I used the word “mote” for “moat” and cited Tennyson in the interview. Really dumb. It was my favorite game show and I LOVED game shows. Wonder if the SNL writers hesitated to parody Dick Clark [...]
Which I just happened to finish a few weeks ago, and loved from beginning to end. I nearly spilled my breakfast coffee this morning reading Schwartz’s article, as I assumed that I was some rare adult fan of Ernest Cline’s weird and wonderful comic dystopia, a world set mostly in a videogame. I enjoyed the [...]
Today’s NYT coverage of the Harvard/MIT announcement. I am remembering a 2001 0r 2002 interview with a Yale student newspaper on whether Fathom was a success or failure. What year are you in? I asked the young woman. If you had left college as a first-year student, would we call you a failure, or would [...]
Harvard, MIT Announce Online Learning Partnership By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. May 2, 2012 (AP) Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined forces to offer free online courses in a project aimed at attracting millions of online learners around the world, the universities announced Wednesday. Beginning this fall, a [...]
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Peter pre-diploma, note the Phi Beta Kappa cords!
Ann@City Tech
Sala, around 1949
In the library at the Middebury Inn
Ann and Sala
