It was the last regular-season broadcast of HF-L Cougars football. I was fighting a tenacious (and growing) cold. The last thing I wanted to do was spend the night on the roof of the press box.
The incessant wind made the cool autumn air downright cold. I wore four layers. A T-shirt, a sweatshirt, a hoodie, and a hooded windbreaker. And I was still freezing. By the second half, I put on my gloves.
Needless to say, I was prepared. I knew the conditions. I’m like that when it comes to Continue Reading “Two Wires And A Prayer”
Media Literacy Will Destroy Civilization
This was back in the 1990s. I was on what was then called the HF-L Technology Committee because of my computer background (and also because, as Town Board school liaison, I had to be on some committee). Today, those complaints seem naïve. And they were. But not for reasons you think.
It turns out secondary school students aren’t the only perpetrators of media illiteracy. We all Continue Reading “Media Literacy Will Destroy Civilization”