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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: March 2006
My poor blog
Had dinner with Kevin and Derek, and they made fun of my “undesigning” my blog. So, I updated to the new version of WordPress, and put up this theme temporarily. If I can find a couple hours this week, I’ll try to get back to a simple, but attractive, look. I might even put a [...]
Early childhood programming
I’m a “strong effects” kinda guy. So I was pretty surprised I didn’t turn out a journalist or a biologist. Allow me to explain: We didn’t have a TV for most of my early childhood (until about 7 or 8 year old), and when we did, I was allowed to watch Walter Cronkite on the [...]
Redress of greivances
A survey of a thousand Americans found that people are more likely to know the names of Simpsons characters than the freedoms. Only one of the thousand could name the five freedoms articulated in the First Amendment. Of course, this is a great headline, and is easy to cast in terms of dumb or unappreciative [...]
Other High School Dropouts
I don’t usually tell people this, but I dropped out of high school. I was unschooled/truant for a couple years after being booted out of 8th grade, and then spent a week in high school before dropping out. In fact, I never did get around to finishing my high school equivalency, which means I don’t [...]
Ave Maria, Florida
CNN has a story about Ave Maria, a private community based on Catholic ideals, in which shops will be barred from selling porn and doctors will not offer abortions. It’s the brainchild of Domino’s pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan. I suspect pizza will be widely available. (Somewhere in the back of my mind: “In Domino’s [...]
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