Summer 2007

Sleeping in Seattle

August 12, 2007

Well, I arrived in Seattle on Friday evening. I stayed with Bob and his wonderful fiancee Etsuko. Saturday Bob had to work (ah, the joys of owning your own business), and I slept the morning away. When I finally got up I hung out in a local cafe, Java Jazz, and caught up on emails [...]

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Too tired in Spokane.

August 10, 2007

Today I drove a bit over 500 miles, and made it to Spokane Valley (just east of Spokane), WA. Winnett, MT was fun, I'll write more and post some photos tomorrow (or, I guess it's "later today" now).

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Into North Dakota

August 8, 2007

I made it across the Mississippi today! Guess that means I'm in "the West." I crossed the Big Muddy where it isn't so big, nor so muddy, in Brainerd, MN. If memory serves me right, Brainerd is the city where Marge Gunderson is from in the movie Fargo. Well, put a physics teacher behind the [...]

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David DiManna in Toledo, Millers in upper Michigan

August 6, 2007

Sunday included a drive across the last little bit of Pennsylvania, then Ohio, then a bit of Michigan. The Pennsylvania and Ohio Turnpikes were fairly uneventful, and I made it to Toledo in time to have dinner with cousin David DiManna, his son Danny, and his new gal (who I'm embarrassed to say I forgot [...]

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Virginia and Maryland: Good family

August 5, 2007

Click here for larger photos. Thursday I made it up to Flint Hill, VA to the Alexander homestead. Cousin Karen and Steve were home, as Cory was spending a relaxing summer with them (ha! she and Steve had spent the day working on one of their properties). The shock for me was the new workshop/studio [...]

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Wonderful talk by George Coyne

August 1, 2007

The capstone of my time here was a talk by George Coyne, SJ. Coyne talk was titled "Dance of the Fertile Universe: Cosmic and Human Evolution."Coyne is the former Director of the Vatican Observatory (1978-2006), and has written extensively debunking the "Intelligent Design" theory. He gave a quick history of the universe ("if the universe [...]

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Slow day... ?

July 31, 2007

Today was kind of a slow day. I let myself sleep in--till 8:00 I saw one plenary speaker who discussed his role in international physics education. I found it interesting at the time, but can't remember many of the details now. The second plenary speaker was Janet Guthrie, the first woman to qualify for the [...]

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Great workshops at Greensboro

July 30, 2007

I'm settled in the dorms, and have been sharing with a nice guy from outside Ann Arbor ("NOT" UM, our colors are green). He's checking out tonight, so I'll have the room to myself tonight. Sunday I spent the morning in two workshops, the first on using VPython (a computer programming language) to have students [...]

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Off to Greensboro

July 28, 2007

I finished the Modeling Physics workshop in Charlotte, and am now sitting in the Tate Street Coffee shop outside UNC Greensboro. I checked into the dorm late this afternoon, and am happily preparing for more physics tomorrow. We finished the workshop on Friday with lunch at a nice Greek restaurant across the street from UNC [...]

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Nice weekend in Asheville

July 21, 2007

Friday afternoon I took Gabriela to the bus station so she could go visit friends for the weekend, then I took off driving up to Asheville to meet Karen. We're having a great time roaming around Asheville. We've had some great food (Tapas, breakfast buffet at the Grove Park Inn (see photo to right), Indian [...]

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