Thirty-nine days after her actual birthday, my now 6-year-old got to celebrate with her friends at Chuck E. Cheese.
For them it was a lot of fun.
For adults, less so. Largely due to the boorish behavior of all of the other adults there (i.e., the ones not with our kid’s friends).
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A fun night out with my beautiful bride at the 2010 Lubbock Advertising Federation Addy awards.
A great time in low light!
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Walking outside today with doctoral student Curtis Matthews, I quipped “Today is one of those days where Lubbock ‘had me at hello.’”
It was 54 degrees, the sun flooded the campus, and the wind hid.
Spectacular.
Walking across campus later, the beauty of the brilliant sun on Spanish architecture caught my eye.
It’s one of the many reasons that I love this campus.
Clearly, the camera phone could not handle the contrast. But it was a beautiful scene over at the Experimental Sciences Building with the small Zen-like garden.
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It turns out that the chastity belts I saw at the Rothenburg Germany torture museum were most likely made in 19th century England, and the foolish devices were never used at all.
They certainly were no used by knights during The Crusades in the 1200s, as not a single reference exists to them in the literature.
All this I learned at a lecture this evening, “The Myth of the Chastity Belt,” by University of Arizona distinguished research professor Dr. Albrecht Classen.
It was a fascinating, riveting talk by a dynamic speaker. He really made the Middle Ages come alive, and he wove arguments of epistemology and evidence into his talk.
If I hadn’t visited the museum 15 years ago, I likely would not have had my curiosity sufficiently piqued to venture over to the Foreign Languages building.
Sorry the picture is a little blurry, but it’s got a chastity belt. So you win some, you lose some.
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The back yard is flooded after a light all-day rain that’s now turning into a wintry mix.
Some people like rain. Lubbock’s lack of it is honestly one reason we moved to the semi-arid plains.
This winter has been atypical. Snow tonight and tomorrow. Maybe more Monday. Then again next Thursday.
Winter is not supposed to be like this in Lubbock.
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I'm a cognitive scientist and communication scholar who manages a psychophysiology lab at Texas Tech. I teach courses about the cognitive processing of media messages and research methods.