A few days with no computer; updated 

A few days with no computer; updated

I've been busy preparing for my course. The syllabus is done, along with about 10 pages of quotations from cases, with the names and years of the cases, to give a kind of overview of the course. I'm going to be sure to focus on some 2003 cases, where I guess the theme is: an allegedly conservative court delivers some liberal decisions.

Our 13-year old and I have both tried to install "War Craft III" on our computer, without success. It looks like we need to upgrade our video card.

We will take the computer in to the guy who sold it to us, and ask how much to install this game, but also to clean up the entire hard drive, getting rid of anything we don't need.

We may have no computer until Wednesday or later.

Update August 13: Computer's back. I'm pretty good about backing things up on floppy drives, but there were still some items I didn't think about before the "wipe out the hard drive" project. Like: an item on C.S. Lewis to add to the blog; and old e-mails. (Naturally, wiping the HD clean costs a lot less in shop time than trying to pick and choose what to save).

Maybe a clean start is good.

I went to the U. yesterday, dropped off the syllabus and "overview" document for photocopying, and looked at the classroom where I'll be teaching. I might as well admit that when it comes to the U. of T. St. George campus, I'm the most pathetic kind of lover: I like looking at her so much, it seems I could do so forever. (I think there's a citation to a Platonic dialogue lurking here somewhere, but I wouldn't be able to find it quickly).

I'll be teaching in a classroom in an old wing of
where the windows overlook the original quad of the University:
[img=http://www.employers.careers.utoronto.ca/ campus/stgpic2.jpg]Simcoe Hall[/img] and Convocation Hall straight across, and a little to the right; The undergraduate library to the left. (OOps, I have to learn to link to images).

Enrollment is now 56, and I've been warned to expect 70, which is the capacity of the classroom.

This should be fun.