This excellent article from the New York Times may have you completely re-evaluating the way you eat.  Yes it is long, but it is a must read!

This week I took a new step in my professional life: I taught my first class.

I am teaching a graduate-level engineering course called Dynamic Web Development at Manhattan College this semester. It is a class of my own design, covering XML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and MySQL.

I’d like to say something deep and meaningful here about the start of a new journey, the pursuit of a meaningful existence or some other poetic-sounding nonsense. But frankly, I’m way too busy trying to prepare for class to think about silly things like that. ACK!

Are things looking a little screwy at robbecker.com? That’s because this site is undergoing some maintenance. It’s time to sweep the dust out of the corners and polish everything up to a brilliant shine. In the meantime, please excuse the occasional messiness.

David repeatedly receives notes from his neighbor below compaining about the noise.

You probably think this building is so big, we, downstairs, can’t hear you cough, speak, sneeze at that hour.
But we do.
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The New York Times explores the latest trend in college parties: the Naked Party.

“You find yourself accepting people in a completely different light. For me, there’s something totally captivating about it. It reinforces in a really profound way this common thread of humanity. Everyone is bared in all their glory, but it turns out no one is actually that glorious.”

I finally scanned and posted some of my photos from my trip to Belize and Tikal (Guatemala). It only took me 2 years to do it!

Check out the Five Most Dangerous Roads in the World.  Includes great photos!

This feature profiles the often demented eccentricities of some of the world wackiest dictators.

Clad in chic, form-fitting camouflage fatigues, [Quaddafi’s] personal bodyguards are made up of an all-girl Amazonian unit alleged to be virgins. The 40-femme corps of African beauties is also said to be highly trained in martial arts and weaponry.

Sounds like something out of a Quentin Tarantino movie.  Sheesh.