Obamicon Me

This is a bit of Inaugural fun. Follow the link in the title to the website and create your own Obamicon. You can use the default hope and change stuff or make your own.

Faculty Achievement Award

I was happy to receive the UDM Faculty Achievement Award on November 7. It is a really nice dinner and a chance to talk with a large bunch of faculty at the same time. I got to make some comments for about 5 minutes. The faculty agree that this event is well-done by the university. I hung the plaque in my office at UDM. I got the pictures today, so I wasn't able to put any up until now.

My Presidential Run

I know it's a bit late in the election, but we can't have either of these guys. There's too much at stake. I'm the new one! Click the link above to start the trend.

I'm Barry Dauphin, and I approve this message.

Celebrate Spirit 2008

This is from the most recent Celebrate Spirit at UDM. This involves a mass and picnic with classes operating on an adjusted schedule for the day. I think it has become a better attended activity over the time I have been at UDM. This year Chrysler sponsored the picnic and had a bunch of new cars out on the fountain area. It was a beautiful day and a nice change of pace.

OK... enough of the hurricane blogging for now

These are a few shots I took inside the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. You can't use a flash inside the museum, and I struggled to figure out how to take good pictures. Although you aren't supposed to videotape, I ran the video function for a second or two to get good photos. It is a very nice museum, although I only stayed for a couple of hours as I had to get to a meeting. I'll let these speak for themselves.

Ike Could Be a Problem

Ike is a very powerful storm (Category 4 as of now) that will be heading over warm water. The track puts it into the central gulf of Mexico. New Orleans might have to evacuate a 2nd time. It's too soon to tell, but it certainly appears to be heading into the middle of the Gulf.

Considerable weakening of Gustav | Eye collapsing

Fortunately Gustav seems to be weakening in a number of ways. It still packs 115 mph winds, but the National Weather service called that "generous". The eye of he storm has weakened considerably, and the east wall seems to be falling apart. As it moves overland, it will weaken fairly rapidly, although not rapidly enough for Houma. There is still danger and the storm surge will test the levies of New Orleans. However, I think this might be a test and might give the Army Corps of Engineers valuable information about how things stand. As far as New Orleans is concerned, this might amount to the equivalent of a preseason game,