Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Snap and It’s Gone

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

In a comment on the previous post, “Asperger Syndrom DVD Available for Educators”, Brett Bellmore complains about the snap.com preview tool I installed on the blog. I think he has a point.

Back when I installed this thing, it had a one-click on/off toggle that you could invoke from the left margin of the blog. So if you didn't like it, you clicked once, set the cookie, and it never bothered you again.

But that option seems to be gone: at least today, the toggle isn't working right, so if you want to make snap stop snapping, you have to go to their page. That's not nice.

I've disabled the snap, and will only bring it back if there's popular demand in the comments below.

Posted in Discourse.net | 3 Comments

Asperger Syndrome DVD Available for Educators

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

My old friend Stan Jaskiewicz writes to a college mailing list,

Since so many of members of our class of 1982 are in academia, I thought I would make you aware of a new, free resource to assist you in working with students with Asperger Syndrome, a form of high functioning autism (and the type that my son has) that is particularly common among those skilled in math and science.

The brief video (available at the website or on DVD) explains the social and educational challenges these students face in the college, and how accommodations to the learning environment can help such students to benefit from college classes. The website also has a link to download a free publication, “Understanding Asperger Syndrome: A Professor's Guide.”

Please feel free to circulate this information to your professional colleagues who may have students with Asperger's in their classes.

The text of his attachment is below. Or skip straight to the free download. Stan is a hero.

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Posted in Science/Medicine | 3 Comments

Happy Passover

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

Happy Passover to all!

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(automated post set to go up at sundown…)

Posted in Personal | 1 Comment

Why Are There TV Crews On the Edge of Campus?

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

As I was driving on the north and north-west sides of the UM campus this afternoon, there seemed to be at least two different TV crews set up, from two different local stations, one on the north, one on the NW sides of the campus. No idea if there are others elsewhere. We're used to them when there's an event, and of course down near the south-west side where the baseball stadium is. They were still there when I came back 30 minutes later.

So what's up with this on a SundaySaturday afternoon? Nothing (yet?) on the local news I could find. For a minute I thought this might be it — Police: College Students Attempt To Capture Gator – Miami News Story – WPLG Miami, but no, the dateline is Daytona Beach Shores, Fla.

So I still have no idea.

Posted in U.Miami | 7 Comments

I’ve Been Joe-Jobbed Again

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

Someone has emailed the entire universe a series of cheap ads for tawdry goods forging my email address in the “from” line. It is not the first time I've been 'joe jobbed' but it seems to be an even more thorough job than in the past.

As a result, I'm getting a flood of mailed bounces, rejections, spam complaints and the like. No doubt many systems will now blacklist my address. And so on.

And it makes finding the real mail a bit of a needle in a haystack problem. Not to mention that if I tried to mail you, misspelled something, and it really bounced, I'll never notice.

If you need to reach me in the next few days, or more, please consider the phone if I don't reply.

Posted in Internet | 4 Comments

The Job Market of the Future

Posted on April 18, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

It seems at least one filmmaker with a wicked sense of humor is pretty bearish about the job market. See Job Market In 2009.

Posted in Econ & Money | Comments Off on The Job Market of the Future