The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier

I was just watching an insightful piece on CBS’ Sunday Morning dealing with a truly modern-day rennaisance man, Michael Hawley of M.I.T. After a decade at M.I.T., this young accomplished visionary computer scientist, inventor, award-winning musician, master teacher, and philantropist is without tenure. He says, with his outside interests in music and medicene and Hollywood [...]

There is now resting among my sacred objects of teaching a Valentine’s card handed to me by a first year student last Friday. It read: “You smile every day. You love your students. You make school fun. In other words, you are one terrific teacher.” Needless to say, it made my weekend. But, what really [...]

Well, the mushy, red, slurpy, and flowery month of February is upon us. Valentine’s Day is fast approaching. And although I don’t do the “on demand” candy, flower, or love card scene, I’ve been thrown ever so slowly into a cupiditous mood by my e-friend, Steve Mendelle, in Brisbane. In a message he had sent [...]

“I should hardly admire them more if real starsand lodged on my coat,” Thoreau wrote. and lodged on my coat,” Thoreau wrote of snowflakes. I was reading an article about snowflakes. Snowflakes. No two snowflakes follow the same path of creation. No two snowflakes fall to earth by the same course. No two snowflakes are [...]