Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
F.A. March Elementary School held its annual egg drop on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Students create a device to protect their egg from a fall, and then bring it to school where it is dropped from three different heights. If the device survives the third drop, it makes it to the finals in which it’s … Read more
At MUG 2014 we gave away CLAMP clamps — translucent orange magnetic clamps with the word “CLAMP” printed on them. We promptly began to find ways to use these CLAMPs. Got an action shot of your CLAMP clamp? Add a comment below with a link to the picture and I’ll include it in this gallery.
The Collaborative Liberal Arts Project’s first ever Moodle User Group meeting was held June 23-24, 2014 at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. It was followed by our traditional Summer Moodle Hack/doc Fest. Getting there was an adventure in and of itself — Charles Fulton (Lafayette College) and I took the train from New York … Read more
My Picture of the Day project is slowly moving forward. I’m not hitting it with nearly the frequency that’s needed (as in actually taking a picture a day) but I’ve managed to snap a few good shots over the last month or so, including this post’s featured image of a foggy, chair-filled quad at Lafayette.
One of my great re-discoveries over the last two years has been the pork roll sandwich. This is a New Jersey tradition (so much so that “Egg”, “Cheese” and “Pork Roll” are mascots at the Lakewood Blueclaws minor league baseball team).
Baseball season is officially here! Ok, it’s been here for a few weeks now, but it became official for me when I got to go to my first game of the season: the Lehigh Valley IronPigs vs. Syracuse Chiefs on Monday, April 19, 2010 at Coca-Cola Park. It was a close game, right up until … Read more
