I’ve had my EEE PC 701 for about 6 months now, and last week, we bought Mandi an Acer Aspire One for her to work on. I decided to do a bit of a comparison to see what had improved in the intervening time.
The Aspire One is superior in many respects: it has a larger [...]
Arctic Sees Massive Gain in Ice Coverage
Earlier predictions were also wrong because researchers thought thinner ice would melt faster in subsequent years. Instead, according to the NSIDC, the new ice had less snow coverage to insulate it from the bitterly cold air, resulting in a faster rate of ice growth.
Most [...]
I’ll admit it: I didn’t watch Sarah Palin deliver her speech at the Republican convention. From what I’ve read, people are divided over the delivery: right-wingers think she hit one out of the park, sounding folksy and yet aggressive; left-wingers think she sounded mean and whiny. While the delivery is up for debate, the text [...]
So, one of the assignments I have at the beginning of my Communications Production Technology class is to ask the students to imagine a world with no higher tech communications (no internet, phones, TV, GPS, etc.). Many students confuse the assignment and picture a world with no technology, which is kind of interesting, but beside [...]
Mark Pullen over at The Elementary Educator has pulled together a Student Bill of Rights that he says is in response to many teachers’ beginning of the year laying-down-of-the-law. It’s a great idea that has some excellent social studies tie-ins: what does every student’s right to be safe through the day mean for student interaction? [...]
So this isn’t exactly news, but for those who haven’t seen yet, these are Mandi & my new tattoos. Mandi’s is on the left and mine is on the right.
This time around, the appointment was reversed, with Mandi’s taking twice as long as mine (colour and shading take time).
We went to Eye of the Needle [...]
So Grace broke her arm. She was swinging on the backyard swingset and took a tumble. When it was still swelling after a couple of hours, and she wouldn’t let anyone move it, we decided to go to the emergency room (only place in town with an after-hours X-Ray machine).
The orthopedic doc says it’s [...]
Did Jesus die for me, or just for everyone?
This is a question that’s been percolating through my mind for the last couple of days. Christianity has recently popularized the idea of individualized salvation, through things like saying “replace the word ‘world’ in John 3:16 with your name.” A recent listen to the song “Sea of [...]
Build a museum extolling the virtues of the Young Earth movement, while deriding science…
Arctic Sees Massive Gain in Ice Coverage
Earlier predictions were also wrong because researchers thought thinner ice would melt faster in subsequent years. Instead, according to the NSIDC, the new ice had less snow coverage to insulate it from the bitterly cold air, resulting in a faster rate of ice growth.
Most [...]
I’ve had my EEE PC 701 for about 6 months now, and last week, we bought Mandi an Acer Aspire One for her to work on. I decided to do a bit of a comparison to see what had improved in the intervening time.
The Aspire One is superior in many respects: it has a larger [...]
So, one of the assignments I have at the beginning of my Communications Production Technology class is to ask the students to imagine a world with no higher tech communications (no internet, phones, TV, GPS, etc.). Many students confuse the assignment and picture a world with no technology, which is kind of interesting, but beside [...]
Two things:
The Dark Knight: Holy crap! I saw this a week ago, and I’m still thinking about it. This is easily the best DC-based superhero movie ever made, and possibly the best superhero movie ever, and this in a summer filled with superhero movies. I’m not going to call for Heath Ledger to get an [...]
That is to say, I use Twitter. I’m not sure what the right terminology is - twitterer? Tweetheart? - but I’m there. If you want to follow my minute-to-minute movements (I really don’t post that often… I have to at least pretend I have a life away from the computer), you can follow me on [...]
For at least the next week or so, the possibility of posting will be quite curtailed - my internet is down until at least Saturday, so if you don’t hear from me, that’s why…
I saw over on D’Arcy Norman’s site this new visual tag generator. You input your del.icio.us username, and out pops a graphical representation of the tags you’ve used on bookmark items. Very few surprises in mine, but it still looks cool!
Arctic Sees Massive Gain in Ice Coverage Earlier predictions were also wrong because researchers thought thinner... Read More »
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I’ll admit it: I didn’t watch Sarah Palin deliver her speech at the Republican convention. From... Read More »
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