October 21, 2008 – 8:29 pm
I am incredibly happy to see that the RNC has used the medium of the Reagan era to convince me of…let me see…to question the other candidate’s lack of “caring about the country” because he pals around with terrorists Hollywood-types.
I’m not even told who to vote for in the mailer–which leads me to believe that [...]
We’re simply not ready for this: the state of the Indiana actually matters on a national level election (well, even if it is the Democratic nominee, it still is probably the most exciting voting thing here in the Midwest since… let me think about that for a moment).
Anyway, I got my first attack mailer from [...]
Here are the reports from the chess tournament on the ides of March:
Blog Post about bringing a Perl book to a chess tournament.
I thought it was quite humorous too. It had been a day that began with me being slightly hostile toward…well, a few things: being moved to another room so my classroom could be used for retesting of the ISTEP and a faculty meeting that had me say some things that ran contrary to most of [...]
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Tagged chess, coercing, Evan, ISTEP, PlayStation, tuesday
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February 26, 2008 – 2:04 pm
And this is not a rant against not getting the Lilly Endowment for not granting my proposal “Writing a blank canvas: Arctic Canada and Northern Indiana” (There is little distracting about the landscapes of Nunavut, Canada and Northern Indiana. But in writing about place, I plan on crafting an non-fiction essay about the vast beauty [...]
January 27, 2008 – 8:19 pm
The annual Indiana Computer Educators (ICE) conference in Indianapolis was held last week and the thing I was sort of looking forward to was David Pogue’s keynote Friday. His topic was “The Digital Generation Comes of Age” and so I got a good seat in the back center row. Like others, my main exposure to [...]
November 25, 2007 – 10:55 pm
We’re back from the 9th annual family gathering of the Bickels (Lois’ parents and Lois’ brother, his wife [Jinger] and their son), the Certalics (Jinger’s parents) and us on Thanksgiving weekend in Schaumburg, IL (home of the Woodfield Mall<= really big).
And, for the last 9 years, we had all read the same book and had [...]
(Hey, my whole html toolbar shows up in Safari…cool)<= Spoke too soon…shows up, not fully functionalAnyway, the new teacher portfolio scoring took less than half the time we had planned for, so I got to come home Tuesday. (BTW, this is a worthwhile process: the portfolio, the mentoring, and the scoring…I will post about this [...]
When I stepped out for the 3-miler this morning, I was wondering if it was foggy enough for a school delay. But, my mind quickly ran to poetry and the various faces of poetry that I was going to lead my classes through today. These poems, though, tend to be fairly accessible to people and [...]
As sometimes I do when I have extra time on a Spring Break where it is snowing outside, I cruise on over to the Indiana DOE site to see what is “coming down the pipe” from Indianapolis. I know that 7 Habits encourages us to not concentrate on the Circle of Concern that is not [...]
