I also have worked on MMA's Internet connection:

When I'm not teaching...

I like to play with our dog...

Want to train a dog (or cat, canary, dolphin, fish--or person)? Look here.

What's Precision Teaching ? Read this.

If you'd like to learn more about Precision Teaching (as well as Direct Instruction, a technique which is a great teammate for Precision Teaching), here are a few good places to start:

http://www.precisionteachingresource.net/ (Dr. Rick Kubina)
http://members.aol.com/standardcharter/index.html (Dr. John W. Eshleman)
http://members.aol.com/standardcharter/safmeds1.html (Dr. John W. Eshleman)
http://members.aol.com/standardcharter/learnpix.html [See the different learning pictures here] (Dr. John W. Eshleman)
http://www.fluencyfactory.com (Richard McManus' Fluency Factory)
http://www.tli.com/ (The Learning Incentive, Inc. -- Ben Bronz Academy)
http://www.morningsideacademy.org/ (Morningside Academy)
http://www.celeration.org/ (The Standard Celeration Society)
http://http://precisionteaching.blogspot.com/ (Scott Woods PT blog)

If you need some practice sheets for learning math, either extra practice for a math course you're taking or for use as sprints in Precision Teaching, go here. For the wonderful charts developed by Normand Giroux and Norman Crow, go here.

I like to play with computers...

Want to be a hacker? Go here.

Join the Free Software Foundation and support Free and Open Source Software!

I like taking pictures...

Here's a great photo gallery, and other photographic information.

Here's the Maine Maritime Academy Photograph Gallery

I like target shooting...

The most fun of any type of shooting I've found so far is in Cowboy Action Shooting.

Here's some shooting links.

I like playing with my old trucks...

Like old trucks? Here's the home site of the American Truck Historical Society.

How about old fire trucks? Here's the home site of the Society for Preservation and Appreciation of Antique Motor Fire Apparatus in America.

and I like working in the woods.

Here's a great site on logging and forestry.

Here's my site on logging research I'm doing.

And I've been restoring chain saws for the Leonard's Mills Forest and Logging Museum.

Own a few trees? Come join with us in the Downeast Chapter of SWOAM, the Small Woodland Owners of Maine. More information is at SWOAM's home page.

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Smile!

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Weather:

Here's the summary from the folks who actually have the data to make the weather forecasts (including marine) for Castine and the surrounding area (the National Weather Service in Caribou, Maine)

And here's "Weather Underground" (tracks hurricanes, etc., as well as local conditions, including ski conditions)

Here's the pollen index, for my fellow sufferers:

Wildfire Danger

Here's the latest national forest fire forecast: The US Forest Service national fire weather map.

Here's the Maine Forest Service Maine forest fire weather map:

Please Note: The forest fire danger can change tremendously over a very short distance (depending on vegetation, soils, humidity, exposure to winds, etc.) and in a small time interval (as the sun gets up, winds and humidity change, etc.) -- therefore these maps are only for general information. Please check with your local Fire Warden (ask your local Fire Chief) before starting any outdoor fire.

Here's the weekly outlook for forest fires in the Northeast (Temperature, winds, relative humidity, precipitation, etc., day by day.) from NIFC.

And here's the National Interagency Fire Center News site on current wildland fires, including where crews are needed, etc.

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Foxtrot's author (Bill Amend) often uses math and computer jokes in his cartoon strip (and correctly, too!)
Also, look at his "Bill's News Page":

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"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network."

-Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996

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If you are using Microsoft products, make sure you have virus protection from somebody, and make sure you keep it updated!
Here are links to antivirus vendors:

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Statistics on uptimes for seahorse.mma.edu server

Statistics on uptimes for www.mma.edu server

Statistics on uptimes for blackboard.mma.edu server

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Here are the web usage statistics for the seahorse experimental server.

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MMA Faculty

MMA Internal Page

Maine Maritime Academy Home Page.

State of Maine Home Page.

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Last modified: Wed Apr 16 08:01:39 EDT 2008