Writings by Robb Murray
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1 Recent (2005)
Eulogy for Bill Gould, Graphic Designer and Entrepreneur
The Drive to "Live Forever" through Nanotechnology and Cryonics:
Ray Kurzweil and Nanotechnology on Web Radio
What’s New and Cool these past couple of years? – discussion outline for
MEETUP Group on the Future
2 Articles
About Training:
1
“Using Nonverbal
Reinforcement”, ASTD Links, November, 2002.
Reprinted by two regional training magazines.
2 “Stimulating Classroom Follow Ons”, ASTD Links, June, 2003
3 Dealing with a Disruptive Trainee, ASTD “Whose Training Is It, Anyway?”
4 Monthly Cool Tech Tips for Your PC Column,
for web site of Chicago Organization of Data-Processing
Educators, July, 2002 to July, 2003 – these are tips that were
planned ahead for future issues
5 "PC Idiocy" Web Sites
6 Crazy Half-Baked Utopian fiction: “A Garden Called Earth”
Learning Resources:
1. Great Web Radio! Clickable Radio Feature Stories
and Program Archives
2. Invitation to the Science Discovery Club of Chicago, with cool
science links!
About Business:
2 Courseware and Outlines
1. Introduction to MS Excel. Class for total beginners. Part One.
4. Creative Computing Features in Software
5. IT Project Management Course. Contains self-grading quizzes and
interactive content slides (pointing to valuable web resources) for
an eight-week course.
3 Proposal Materials
4 Articles in Chicago Mensa magazine, ChiME:
Two of these stories were selected for “Best of ChiMe”
1. “A Walk in Their Moccasins”, February, 2003.
2. “Sky Soaring: Gliding on Plumes of Desert Air”, March, 2003.
Reprinted by New Mexico Mensa magazine
3. “Techno-Social Notes: Our Power and Freedom on the
Web Requires Caution, Too”, April, 2003.
Reprinted by Florida Mensa magazine
4. “Harvesting Group Brain Power”, May, 2003,
Reprinted by InterLoc magazine, Chicago.
5. “The Power of Goals Clubs”, July, 2003
Reprinted by 4M Minnesota Mensa magazine, Minneapolis
6. “The 5-Minute Phobia Cure”, April, 2004
7. “Great Interactive Learning Demos from the Websites of Chicago Museums”, TBD
Stories Proposed or Planned:
8. Cruising the Universe – Sites Too Good Not to Share! <Under Development>
9. “Web Radio for Idea-Lovers”, September, 2004
10. Rolling List of Possible Story Topics
5 Fan Web Sites:
1. “Melody” – fan site for Chicago jazz singer, Melody Swink.
2. Lima Senior High, Class of 1971 – alumni site with audio skits impersonating faculty and a class memories quiz game.
3. “More Stories by Dr. Murray” – fan site for Florida author, Dr. Emmett Murray
6 Books:
1. Keeping Self-Employment Fun (draft, December, 2002)
2. Scenes from Half a Century. My reminiscences, September, 2003.
Thesis:
1. “The Reading Diaries of Literary Authors: A Comparison of Some Published Notebooks” University of Chicago, Graduate Library School, 1977.
Listing in Regenstein Library catalog.
2. Published by Department of Education, ERIC, in 1977.
I have contributed design ideas, editorial commentary and
copy editing for these books:
1. Swing Girl, by Denise Garon (a chorus girl’s autobiography)
2. Come Reminisce with Me, by Dr. Emmett Murray
(stories of growing up in the Midwest in the 1930’s)
3. 14 ½ weeks: A Very Short Book on a Very Short Relationship,
by Deborah Hawkins
4. For Just a While, by Phyllis Gray (memoirs of girlhood life in Lima, Ohio)
5. Traveling with George, by Betty Portenlanger. On Amazon
--and created over 50 charts for this archeological study,
Craft Production and Social Change in Northern China,
by Dr. Anne. P. Underhill, Field Museum of Natural History
7 Software review articles:
In SoftSide Magazine
1. “A First Audition for Orchestra-80”, October, 1981
2. “Orchestra-85”, November, 1981
3. “Orchestra-85 Composer’s Edition and Orchestra 90”, November, 1981
4. “The ATARI Music Tutor”, February, 1984
5. “ATARI Sing-Along: A Review of Music Files”, February, 1984
In Christian Bookseller Magazine
6. “Microcomputing: What’s in It for You?”, May, 1984
7. “Software: Why You Can Succeed in Selling It” , May, 1984
9 Letters and Reports:
1. Adventures on the Road, 2001
2. Fun in Boise, Idaho
10 Songs:
1. “You Owe It to the World” -- lyrics (number is still in production)
2. “Questions People Are Asking Me About ‘Oh, Marsha!’”
13 Birthday and Anniversary Tributes (illustrated)
For Nephew, Chris
For Nephew, Jeff
For Friend, Eben
For Dad
14 Political “Thought”, So-Called
Thoughts on a Review in Slate of Michael Moore’s “9/11” . July 4, 2004
A circulated e-mail stating that “Islam is the Enemy” and My Thoughts. July 2, 2004
Thoughts on Colin Powell’s February 5, 2003, Report to the
UN Security Council