Martin Remy

  • Carrying the Fire

    This summer, I picked up a copy of Mike Collins’s memoir Carrying the Fire at the Barnes & Noble in Melbourne, which is on Florida’s “Space Coast”. I’m a sucker for books about local happenings, even more so when there’s an adventure or geeky angle (or both, as with this book). I just finished the… Read more ⇢

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  • Book Usage

    I collect books. Once I bought the entire stock of the university library’s annual used book sale, which took two trips with a pickup truck to haul away to our house. OK, that wasn’t smart because we still had three or four moves ahead of us before we settled into our present house. Now I… Read more ⇢

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  • Metamorphoses Play at LHS

    Saw a brilliant performance of the play Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman at Littleton High School last night. The performance by the super talented cast was very artful, funny and touching.  Great set, too. Read more ⇢

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  • Education Snapshot … Overheard

    My daughter today (high schooler, Colorado): “In Science we’re doing exactly what we did in middle school, but at a more basic level” My niece (middle school, California) is having a furlough day today (meaning, school is closed because teachers are on one of their scheduled unpaid leave days).  Also, her school gets brand new… Read more ⇢

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  • Siri iPhone App – First Look

    Siri is a new iPhone app that takes spoken input like “coffee places near here” and shows you a list of coffee places near your location with distance, directions, etc.  You can also enter a query by tapping on a type of location you’re looking for, but that’s boring.  I haven’t tried some of the… Read more ⇢

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