July 2009
1 post
Longing for those refreshing Rheinland-Pfalz rain showers which dance playfully with the sun and refreshing breezes.
Jul 21st
August 2008
2 posts
from Alter’s “Author’s Note” to “The Defining Moment”, about FDR and the 100 Days: “I wrote this book to better understand a few timeless questions about the nature of crisis leadership and the meaning of the American experiment in self-government. What is government for? How can it be mobilized in an emergency to secure safety and ease suffering? Where...
Aug 22nd
Getting closer to firming up employment for this fall…
Aug 9th
July 2008
1 post
oh Doctor! oh Donna! oh David Tennant! my heart is breaking! (oh: and oh Rose! oh Billie Piper!)
Jul 19th
June 2008
9 posts
“Good god, what kind of potato-head yokels have you hooked me up with!?”
Jun 9th
Explaining can’t be done by looking at the past. The past is dead, filthy causist. If you try, the past retroactively becomes a series of events that were occurring towards a goal which, at the time, they are not.
Jun 9th
“Captain, you are not married to the entire production line.” President Roslin to Helo (married to the Cylon Sharon), in reference to his insistence that the Cylons would not try to keep the path to earth or the identity of the final 5 to themselves. (Battlestar Galactica)
Jun 7th
Fit Brains relaunched with new & funchallenging games! http://ping.fm/RR33Z Facebook-like in it’s ability to cause addiction…
Jun 4th
“Seek simplicity, and distrust it. (Shiver me timbers)”
– AN Whitehead
Jun 3rd
Registered at Plurk for the heck of it. Why not? Seems to have a more international userdom…
Jun 3rd
Daily Post 06/02/2008 →
BuyGreen: Men’s Jeans : TreeHugger tags: clothing_men, ecoclothing, ecofashion The Battle of the Blogs tags: mydd, daily_kos, blogosphere, blogosphere_politics, …
Jun 2nd
Jamie Oliver discloses brutality of poultry... →
Embedded Video Blogged with the Flock Browser
Jun 2nd
Daily Post 06/01/2008 →
the nonist tags: blogsregularreads, blogs_quirky, blogs_art, blogs_books FXcuisine.com » Home tags: cooking, fxcuisine, food, cuisine HassleMe tags: productivity,…
Jun 1st
May 2008
12 posts
Daily Post 05/31/2008 →
Dynamic Periodic Table tags: webapps_education, web2.0_science, periodtable Instructables - The World’s Biggest DIY & How To Show & Tell tags: tutorials, reference, …
May 31st
Daily Post 05/30/2008 →
VITAMINTESTING.COM: Test Your Vitamin Levels » OVERVIEW tags: vitamintesting, vitamins, personal_health, health_personal ConsumerLab.com - independent tests of herbal, vitamin,…
May 30th
Daily Post 05/29/2008 →
The Hyperwords Project tags: hyperwords, extensions, web2.0, firefox_education, educationaltechnology, languagelearning New Firefox extension, for reference. - post by …
May 29th
“Fundamental Attribution Error” or “correspondence bias”: assuming that a single instance of individual behavior represents a deeply rooted personality trait. Instead, the behavior is often the result of situational influences.
May 28th
Link →
End of chapter 1, Discover Your Inner Economist, by Tyler Cowen: “We will see that there is much to be hopeful about. Small improvements in understanding can bring a *much* better use of incentives,…
May 28th
End of chapter 1, Discover Your Inner Economist, by Tyler Cowen: “We will see that there is much to be hopeful about. Small improvements in understanding can bring a *much* better use of incentives, leading to *much* better decisions and *much* better lives. Human imperfection is not the end of the story, but rather the beginning of a search for all kinds of riches.
May 28th
Link →
Exploring the beta of http://ping.fm/5RoMP
May 27th
Exploring the beta of http://ping.fm/5RoMP
May 27th
Beta- →
Trying out ping.fm…
May 26th
Beta-
Trying out ping.fm…
May 26th
Try ping.fm — the betacode is “pingsauce” — a very thorough and cool “aggregator” — post to many places at once
May 26th
Why great artists (some of them, anyway) are... →
Great thinkers and artists and practitioners have intuited and observed and verarbeitet in dozens of ways insights into memory and perception (of all! of our senses) that scientists are…
May 10th
January 2008
3 posts
Today's Highly Selective Set of Synonyms for:... →
consanguinity, phratry, propinquity Sample sentence: Dimitri possessed a portion of propinquity with the prick, Dick, and that bothered him; so, with the coldest of sang-froid, he shed Dick’s consanguinous all over the bathroom.
Jan 8th
New Year →
Despite the sad flat platitude of it all, making resolutions makes sense. Appreciate people in your life, get healthy, get as many other people healthy as you can (as a side note, at least!), and act to make the world better, if nothing else by doing your jobs to the fullest: brother, teacher, lackey, leader, friend, and who-have-you…. With my brother, D, I saw Rent in Philadelphia this past...
Jan 7th
Today's Weird and Wonderful Word: obuncous →
Obuncous: having learned of his colleagues’ obuncous actions throughout their long careers in office, the gentleman left the Republican party and ran as an independent.
Jan 7th
December 2007
3 posts
Juno
Satisfied to pleased with it.  Strong message: normal, intelligent people doing the best they can, trying their hardest to make sense of happiness and hardship, and end up better for the experience.  Did expect (want, secretly long for) a Michael Cera fest, but I like Ellen Page, though my brother thinks her acting was questionable.
Dec 30th
Web Tools -- Education -- Whys and wherefores
p21—dovetails with learning methods p22 Tipping Point — Gladwell p23  web-based applications : only need computer 
Dec 1st
Hurrah!
I just finished the MA Comprehensive Exam!
Dec 1st