Yet another reason to use FOSS.

I remain a student at Virginia Tech — I’m taking two classes on-line, doing one independent study, and taking three classes at the local community college. (I’ll provide a rundown of those some other time.) The two on-line classes are both run through Blackboard, a commercial software package popular among universities who care to coordinate …

They don’t call it a cow college for nothin’.

From the campus building directory, on Saunders Hall: The dairy building was named Saunders Hall in 1949 for William “Buttermilk” Saunders, head of dairy operations and director of the ag experiment station from 1890-1940. During his tenure at Virginia Tech, Saunders invented a cheese that sold “like wildfire,” according to Ellison Smyth Sr. Saunders would …

Sleeper cell.

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, this kid lumbers into statistics class, plops down next to me, tilts his head back, and goes to sleep. He snores and snorts loudly for 50 minutes and, when class is done, he wakes up and leaves. I have no idea why he bothers to show up.