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I’ve been putting it off for over a year: our home server is running an old Ubuntu Linux installation, and needs to be upgraded. Research and teaching and life intervened, and this upgrade fell farther and farther down the list. In the meantime, Ubuntu produced two stable releases… making the […]

Home Server Upgrade – Phase One

We are not quite home, but we are back in Texas! It is less than an hour to home now.

Back in Texas!

We pass by St. Louis during our return trip to Texas. We have 90 minutes of driving left today before we call it quits.

St. Louis

By my own recollection, it was the spring of my second year in college. I was a sophomore who had stumbled in my physics and math classes at Yale. I had tasted what it was to no longer be the best student in your classes, and it was hard to […]

Who does the “A” physics?

Jump!

Jumping a gap in the track of the Anki Overdrive track (our nieces are driving)!

Jump!

Factory in winter

A composite HDR image of a factory in winter.

Factory in winter

I spent a lot of time playing Minecraft with my nephews and sisters-in-law over the past few days. Here we see me speeding toward the house build by one of my sisters, Jackie, as the sun rises over the house. The railroad was the product of another sister, Jolene, who […]

Beyond the Tired Kingdom at sunrise

We are headed south to Oshkosh. We should arrive around 6pm. It is pleasant but overcast today, and we seem to have left the heaviest part of the active snowfall.

Southerly

Snowfall

Christmas Photo

Photo with the Cooley family who were able to be in Park Falls for Christmas.

Christmas Photo

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve Spread

Christmas Eve Spread

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    October 17, 2025
    From the Marketplace Podcast: how international library loans are getting caught up in all the tariff confusion.https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/10/15/international-library-loans-are-getting-caught-in-the-tariff-confusion#international-library-loans-are-caught-in-tariff-confusion#library #scholars
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    October 15, 2025
    Good morning, #Sudbury!

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