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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
- More updates...
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Monthly Archives: February 2005
Teachable moment
At the Thai restaurant last night, what appeared to be a father and his two high-school-aged daughters were sitting behind me. Father: Yep. You have to try a Mongolian restaurant some time. They have a giant wok, and everyone has to make their own food. Girl 1: Can’t you just order stuff? Father: No, everyone [...]
Inu-no-judo
This is clearly a pitch aimed directly at me. I love dogs. I love judo. So, how can I hate judo-playing dogs?
Host Search
You know, like Star Search. I’ve been pretty happy with my cheap-but-reliable hosting company, ICDSoft. But their service has not scaled with my traffic. I am going to have to move up in plans with them, but frankly, they seem slow. I haven’t really surveyed, and no doubt I could have a faster loading design [...]
Blog addiction
Ah, porn and blogs: two things worth blocking. At least that’s what the city of Cincinnati thinks, having set up blocks to stop employees from surfing porn and blogs: A few police detectives have unlimited Internet access to investigate crimes and set up stings in chat rooms. Last week, the program started blocking personal Web [...]
Living for History
I had a conversation with a visiting researcher today, who noted the early 19th century newspaper on my desk and said that he thought it was really worth reading contemporaneous newspapers because you got a lot better feeling for what it might have been like to live through events, before they became “history.” In retrospect, [...]
Better in sign
Today was the first day to have simultaneous ASL translation in my class. Got to look up and see 800 eyes looking intently stage-left. I’m clearly going to have to figure out a way to be more animated now.
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