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SMARTASSessment Coordinator

I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. -Michael Jordan

About Me


Eric is an Honorary Beermaster

Eric and Marian
have been together since 1986
and married since 2000.


Eric and Marian
have vacationed in Las Vegas more often
than all other destinations put together.


My Interests


Friends

Food, especially Amedei, the World's Best Chocolate

I'd like to meet:


Eric would appreciate it
if everyone would click
the following banner link and
spend some time at freerice.com
to help end world hunger.


Heroes:


My parents and grandparents

My Blog

White (not really) chocolate

I was going to write a long blog about chocolate to commemorate Chocolate Week but that was turning into too much of an effort to tackle in one sitting.  So I decided to write several,...
Posted by SMARTASSessment Coordinator on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:13:00 PST

Somewhere over the rainbows...

This has been a disgustingly busy week.  I'm an Assessment Coordinator for my division on the campus Assessment Team for this academic year.  On one hand, it's a high profile position a...
Posted by SMARTASSessment Coordinator on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:03:00 PST

Working weekend, sort-of

I participated in the inaugural Pacific Association for Developmental Education (PacADE) conference at Kapiolani Community College on Friday and Saturday this past weekend.  The conference was co...
Posted by SMARTASSessment Coordinator on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:14:00 PST

Pumpkin truffles will return to See’s on November 1!

Five or six years ago around Thanksgiving, See's Candies had a candy I hadn't tried before: pumpkin truffles.  They were awesome!  Dark chocolate covered a sweet-but-not-too-s...
Posted by SMARTASSessment Coordinator on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:23:00 PST

Rewarding good grades with money ... from the school district???

Here's one that, in my opinion, *BEAUTIFULLY BROKEN* could have used in her weekly WTF files blog.  In an August 27, 2008 article, The Washington Post reported: "D.C. Schools Chanc...
Posted by SMARTASSessment Coordinator on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:09:00 PST

"Yours and mine" lubricants, in one box from K-Y

I went to the Keeaumoku Street Wal-Mart on Sunday afternoon.  While walking down the "long" front aisle (the one that runs the width of the store and passes all of the main checkout sta...
Posted by SMARTASSessment Coordinator on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:29:00 PST

Youve seen Photobucket picture blogs before well heres an Urban Dictionary definition blog

Thanks to N!COLE, who posted her answers as a bulletin.  But I've been too busy (lazy) to assemble the picture blog I'm supposed to write about the Ho'omaluhia Botanical Garden in Kaneohe so...
Posted by SMARTASSessment Coordinator on Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:23:00 PST

Hypocrisy in higher education

I tell my students that school is the last place where a substantial amount of time is spent on fairness and how things "should" be.  I warn them that in the "real world," they will have to ...
Posted by SMARTASSessment Coordinator on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:57:00 PST

Cheating: posting a survey as a blog rather than a bulletin

Thanks, Happy!  Hope you're finally got some sleep. Does it matter to you if your boyfriend/girlfriend drinks?>I don't think my wife would approve of my getting a girlfriend. Last person of the o...
Posted by SMARTASSessment Coordinator on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:58:00 PST

Is anything better than pizza and lasagna for dinner?

I've been wanting to eat lasagna from Buca di Beppo for more than a week now.  I planned to go on Wednesday then Thursday but got tied up with school work on both days so I made sure to...
Posted by SMARTASSessment Coordinator on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:20:00 PST