Welcome to the Chuck & Sue Oates Family Web Site

Welcome to the

Oates Family Web Site

Last Updated Tuesday, 8 Aug 2008, 0310 hr CDT (GMT - 5:00), Version 3.39 – Added SNOMNH Visit Pics--CLO

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About Sue

About Chuck

OCCC Stuff

o Chuck’s Oklahoma City Community College-related items are on this site.

o Sue’s Oklahoma City Community College-related items are on this site.

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Personal Items

- Blog

Chuck’s current blog is now back on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/zxcvnm.

- Blog Archive (past posts from MySpace.com)

2008

These blog entries are still available on MySpace, but I’ll post the following for the MySpaceless in the crowd.

Some Interesting Websites for people searches, general information searches, reference questions, and podcast downloading are available in this blog entry. (Recently Added)

Oh, Please! Say It Ain't So – videos of the destruction of my old high school by fire in 1970 are newly posted on the AHS Class of 1953 website, and my heart breaks. Again.

2007 (thru early October—more to come)

Coal Tattoo – a coal miner’s song and a software engineer’s version(!) .

Beeeeeep, Beep, Be-Beep – a grapefruit-sized silver orb from the Soviet Union changes Prof. Oates’s life.

Laws of Life – the Laws of Life as seen through the looking glass of Mr. Murphy and his infamous Law.

New Slideshows – if you’d like to see what the O.U. computer and engineering world looked like c. 1970, here are the locations of some pics.

Desert Pete – the lyrics from this somewhat ancient Kingston Trio song are food for thought.

Google Sky – your virtual sky, including lots of Hubble Space Telescope pics, integrated with Google Earth.

Harder Than Rocket Science – oil production is peaking; unless we like depending on expensive energy from unreliable sources, it’s time for change.

Time for Solar and Wind Energy, Further Expanded – oil production is peaking; unless we like depending on expensive energy from unreliable sources, it’s time for change.

Time for Solar and Wind Energy – [Original version] oil production is peaking; unless we like depending on expensive energy from unreliable sources, it’s time for change.

How Will You Cope? – caring for and caring about patients: how do you care without being overcome yourself?

Two Messages – these two items came from my former students; they’re good comments on life.

Sue's Departure from OCCC Counseling – an article about Sue in the OCCC Pioneer.

Supplementary Compensation – sometimes when I can’t remember why I continue to teach, someone sends the answer.

Definitely! – since I teach in college, I’m allowed to grouse about spelling occasionally, right?.

Don't Ask – Don’t ask “what next?” Yet another family income source is about to disappear. (Recently Added)

Another Turning Point – Chuck’s entry into polite poverty.

Name That Tune! – the bizarre history of some “officially” American songs.

A Little Easter Music Please, Maestro – an invitation try something a little different.

Vacation Destination: Niagara – looking for a summer vacation spot? Here’s a great one.

A Modest Proposal – a healthcare system based on prevention. What’ll they think of next?

Late Show – late classes and early canines.

Health Care & Maintenance, American Style – a lighter look at American healthcare and health maintenance.

Thanks, Guys! – on-line office hours generate a blog.

Health Insurance – “only” 15.3% of US citizens are without health insurance.

Some URLs You Need to Know – thanks to some long-standing public records laws and the WWWeb, we all now live in a small town: everyone knows pretty much everything about everyone else, and it’ll get worse

A Simile, an Aphorism, and a Blurb – advice to the lovelorn.

The Rules – keep your promises--or else!

Weapons of Math Instruction – one of the better variants of an item widely circulated on the Internet.

2006

Understanding Engineers (PG-13 Version) – a humorous guide to the characteristics and quirks of the engineering mind

Insert Letter for 2006 Christmas Cards – Chuck’s 2006 Christmas letter

Goodbye, PB – a salute to a departed colleague

National Weather Center Open House – Norman, OK, USA becomes a meteorology hub

Twenty-one Rules – some good rules for living

Lemons and Lemonade – about a very dark cloud with a silver lining

How to Become a Med-Math Instructor without Really Trying (To) – a software engineer retires and ends up teaching Math for Health Careers(?!)

- Scrapbook: Events of . . .