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Tweets
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 2 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 2 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 2 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 2 days ago
- Word or two length predictions for social media game-changers over next decade? Me: Goggles, Badges, Social Sensors #gamechangers 2 days ago
- One more on the "higher ed is newspapers" meme. David Brooks: http://t.co/bUsz8sXA 2 days ago
- My students know I am not a fan of Flash. Rare exception: http://t.co/1ElX1Q8E 3 days ago
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Monthly Archives: December 2002
Tastes like babies!
Eddie Izzard does a great routine in which he posits that if most strange meats taste like chicken, then babies probably do too. So, when trying an unusual meat, it makes some sense to say that it “tastes like babies”? Although the Japanese eat poisonous puffer (among a host of other scary dishes), and the [...]
New Year’s Resolution #6
WHEREAS, almost all of the above resolutions have a common element: time management… That’s not to say that perfect time management will lead to an immediate realization of research goals, a great reading list, or perfect lessons, but it sure would help. I seemed to be endlessly under the gun this year. I had great [...]
New Year’s Resolution #5
WHEREAS, I am fat enough to try out to be the new Ernest & Julio Gallo spokesman… It wouldn’t be a list of resolutions without this perennial fav. I’ve always been overweight–or at the very least, I have never been underweight. But now I have moved from the merely fat to gigantor status. I’d love [...]
New Year’s Resolution #4
WHEREAS, we have lived in Buffalo for a year and a half without really experiencing all it has to offer… We left Seattle having not really bathed ourselves in all that made it good. It was easy to fall into a rut and not really get a feel for the city. We don’t want to [...]
New Year’s Resolution #3
WHEREAS, an unreasonable amount of time was spent on preparing for classes last semester… And that time had very little payoff. I spent a significant amount of time grading and preparing for my undergraduate class last semester, and it didn’t turn out as well as I might have liked. Part of that, no doubt, was [...]
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