http://idiomatrix.com/david rants and raves from an occasional ex-pat Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:38:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Scott Anguish is an old friend, and I'm damn proud to be able to say so. I met Scott online through Stepwise right after the Apple /NeXT merger. I was working at Middlebury College at the time and we were in the process of moving our development over to OpenStep. ... http://idiomatrix.com/david/2007/12/rixstep-rips-off-scott-anguish/ Do have feelings of inadequacy...? http://idiomatrix.com/david/2007/11/inadequacy/ I remember having a conversation with a guy in a bar in Nashville, TN about the Lisa and whether or not he should buy one for his office. The Mac had also just been released and Apple was promoting the whole "mac office" idea with a Lisa as the server ... http://idiomatrix.com/david/2007/11/i-remember-the-lisa/ http://idiomatrix.com/david/2007/10/brilliant/ A few minutes before 9 o'clock that Tuesday I was in a cab headed cross town on 14th Street. I was running late for a meeting in a mid-town hotel that was to start at 9. The stretch of 14th Street between 5th and 7th Avenues has quite a few ... http://idiomatrix.com/david/2007/09/september-11th/ Todd (not his real name) was a pain in the ass in my class for two years. He was one of those kids who knew everything already, had all the answers, and couldn't be bothered to try to see things any other way. Of course his experience was somewhat local, ... http://idiomatrix.com/david/2007/08/how-did-the-son-of-a-bitch-know-that/ The year is coming to an end. Today I shipped the last two boxes of things home and it looks like I'll have one large box and one large suitcase, plus my backpack for the plane. Leaving a place always generates ambivalent emotions. I am happy to be going home (even ... http://idiomatrix.com/david/2007/06/three-more-nights-in-spain/ I don't have the actual statistics, but my best estimate is that more than 50% of the passenger vehicles on the road here in Spain are diesel. What's most interesting to me is the number of cars here that are diesel that simply don't exist in the US in a ... http://idiomatrix.com/david/2007/05/diesel-vehicles/ I've just spent an hour trying to buy a train ticket with Renfe, the Spanish rail company. I simply cannot understand how a company, in this day and age, can get away with such an awful mess as their online system. Even using a Spanish credit card, it was virtually ... http://idiomatrix.com/david/2007/05/buying-online-in-spain/ I am a teacher. If I look back at my life, I've always been a teacher even when I wasn't actually working as a teacher. For the past four years I've been dealing (off and on) with becoming a licensed teacher in the State of Vermont. This is not hard, ... http://idiomatrix.com/david/2007/05/getting-a-license-to-teach/