Ken Newquist's Blog at Lafayette College
Acceptance is the third and final novel in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy. The trilogy is reminiscent of a novelized version of the TV show LOST, complete with a strange land called “Area X” that’s fallen out of time and a covert agency that’s been setup to study it. Unlike LOST, all of the people who venture into the “anomaly” are volunteers; … Read more
Meet Hank. He’s a Golden Retriever/Labrador Retriever puppy that my family and I will be raising for the next year as part of the Seeing Eye’s Puppy Raising Program. Like Olaf, the German Shepherd puppy we raised, we’ll be teaching Hank basic obedience while socializing him to the larger world. As part of that process … Read more
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Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Butler University has come and gone, yielding recommendations regarding adopting Moodle 3.0/3.1 and demonstrating that the new “competencies” module isn’t going to be nearly as useful as I’d hoped. At first blush, Competencies seemed like something that might be useful for our badges project (e.g. demonstrate competency in a foreign language, then use that … Read more
I’ve compiled my summer reading list for 2016. As is normal for me, it’s dominated by space opera and military science fiction, but peppered with some steampunk and superhero fiction. It weighs in at 14 books and 6 graphic novels. That’s one fewer than last year, but that gives me gives me some wiggle room to … Read more
Olaf, the German Shepherd puppy that my family and I spent the last year raising for the Seeing Eye, has gone off to college. He’s being assigned a trainer, and with any luck we’ll be getting status updates about him soon. During his time with us, we taught Olaf basic obedience and socialization. Now that … Read more
Phase 2 of the Web Redesign — in which the new design is rolled out to department, office, and program websites — is well underway with more than a dozen sites converted. Learn more about the update at the Web Redesign at the next Web Community of Practice meeting from noon-1 p.m. on Wednesday, April … Read more