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Calendars and Motivation
Jun. 15th, 2009 10:53 amOr, "Everything Always happens at once, or Nothing happens at all"
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Unexpected Pleasures...
Jun. 10th, 2009 10:01 am...meeting an old friend on the road, or in this case, a picture on the internet. The sudden shock of past memories good and bad flooding in, slipping underneath the day's cares by sliding through the memories of recent times.
http://www.snjacobson.com/RMS.htm
Hey, Norham!
http://www.snjacobson.com/RMS.htm
Hey, Norham!
It's certainly Monday.
Jun. 8th, 2009 11:35 pmGot the news on the job; they're going with the other candidate.
Sleep, then calculate a plan B.
Sleep, then calculate a plan B.
First: I urge you to go vote for Liz Scott (Elizabeth de Beauclaire in the SCA) for the Really Goode Job:
http://www.areallygoodejob.com/video-view.aspx?vid=Cr8VvdyIBSs
Frankly, she'd be great at it, and we'd get to drink more goode wine.
Second: I'm teaching this summer at the Summer Technology Academy, at San Jose State. It's a great program aimed at middle school students (leading up to High School students) exposing them to engineering. It's inexpensive ($300 for 3 weeks, 3 hours per day either morning or afternoon) and it's a great way to keep their minds and bodies engaged during the summer. And I'm teaching it. If you have a student at an appropriate school who could get to the class, please consider passing the information along to your school board, or better yet Math or Science teacher:
http://www.techacademysv.com/students.shtml
I'd be happy to go and speak directly to any teacher or class, and describe what's happening.
This is huge fun, and I'd like to get enough students to warrant more duct tape escapades!
http://www.areallygoodejob.com/video-view.aspx?vid=Cr8VvdyIBSs
Frankly, she'd be great at it, and we'd get to drink more goode wine.
Second: I'm teaching this summer at the Summer Technology Academy, at San Jose State. It's a great program aimed at middle school students (leading up to High School students) exposing them to engineering. It's inexpensive ($300 for 3 weeks, 3 hours per day either morning or afternoon) and it's a great way to keep their minds and bodies engaged during the summer. And I'm teaching it. If you have a student at an appropriate school who could get to the class, please consider passing the information along to your school board, or better yet Math or Science teacher:
http://www.techacademysv.com/students.shtml
I'd be happy to go and speak directly to any teacher or class, and describe what's happening.
This is huge fun, and I'd like to get enough students to warrant more duct tape escapades!
Impressions from Maker's Faire
May. 31st, 2009 12:41 am1. That's too many rude people. Especially the stroller wielding gawkers, driving one way, looking another, talking to a person in the third direction, who bump into me and are shocked and disgusted. And Adam Savage (that mug) can certainly draw a crowd.
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Two new phrases from High School Students
May. 29th, 2009 07:21 pm1 Savage that Mug
2. (left hand up) Talk to the left, 'cause you ain't right.
(Love this one!)
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2. (left hand up) Talk to the left, 'cause you ain't right.
(Love this one!)
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Birthday Wants
May. 28th, 2009 02:22 pmPutting them here for my Brother's Sake. You don't have to read them, or like them, but you should come along and check them out with me:
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Offline for a week
May. 17th, 2009 01:44 pmPassed one of the CSETs, I'm sure, and the physics class went well enough--it depends on whether one of the other candidates is stellar, but they don't lay off stellar science teachers, usually. And I always underestimate my chances. So, I'll know by my birthday.
Going offline for a week to substitute teach a high school martial arts beach camp. Yep. Beach. Camping. Martial Arts. Substitute teaching, meaning getting paid.
What fun things are people doing memorial day weekend? Anyone want to meet up at Maker's Faire? And who wants air conditioning? I do. Sea breeze should do it.
Going offline for a week to substitute teach a high school martial arts beach camp. Yep. Beach. Camping. Martial Arts. Substitute teaching, meaning getting paid.
What fun things are people doing memorial day weekend? Anyone want to meet up at Maker's Faire? And who wants air conditioning? I do. Sea breeze should do it.
In space no one can hear you squee....
May. 12th, 2009 08:41 amSaturday Night Live, with a GREAT line:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/72444/saturday-night-live-update-feature-star-trek
Thanks Cvirtue!
http://www.hulu.com/watch/72444/saturday-night-live-update-feature-star-trek
Thanks Cvirtue!
Friday Five
May. 1st, 2009 01:20 pm1. Pickles are good. Pressure cooker? Good. Fondue? Fabulous. Fresh Farmer's Market Feed? Fantastic! I seem to have slipped into an earlier mode of food. Now, to learn how to can, to work on my sundrying, to learn how to salt meat.
2. The computer can suck my good habits right away. I need to get away from this thing. So what am I doing?...
3. Companion planting, I want to learn more about it. Anybody out there doing much of it? And why did the tulips fail again?
4. Best Gig ever: Substitute teaching...on a martial arts beach campout. No, really!
5. Still haven't had a chance to teach my demo lesson. Might be a fail. Ah well!
6. This California Election? Why are we wasting the money?
2. The computer can suck my good habits right away. I need to get away from this thing. So what am I doing?...
3. Companion planting, I want to learn more about it. Anybody out there doing much of it? And why did the tulips fail again?
4. Best Gig ever: Substitute teaching...on a martial arts beach campout. No, really!
5. Still haven't had a chance to teach my demo lesson. Might be a fail. Ah well!
6. This California Election? Why are we wasting the money?
An Inspiration
Apr. 30th, 2009 10:38 am...He lived in a huge, ridiculous, doodad-covered, trash-filled two-story horror of a house that stumbled, staggered, and dribbled right up to the edge of a great shadowy forest of elms and oaks and maples. It was a house whose gutter spouts were worked into the shape of whistling sphinxes and screaming bearded faces; a house whose white wooden porch was decorated with carved bears, monkeys, toads, and fat women in togas holding sheaves of grain; a house whose steep gray-slate roof was capped with a glass enclosed, twisty-copper-columned observatory. On the artichoke dome of the observatory was a weather vane shaped like a dancing hippopotamus; as the wind changed, it blew through the nostrils of the hippo's hollow head, making a whiny snarfling noise sound that fortunately could not be heard unless you were up on roof fixing slates.
Inside the house were such things as trouble antique dealer's dreams: ...
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I think this influenced me at an early age. "The Face in the Frost", John Bellairs.
My weathervane is whales, thanks to my brothers. It doesn't snurfle.
Inside the house were such things as trouble antique dealer's dreams: ...
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I think this influenced me at an early age. "The Face in the Frost", John Bellairs.
My weathervane is whales, thanks to my brothers. It doesn't snurfle.
And no warning on the changes. Being polite means not dancing. This sucks.
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Mmmm. Bacon.
Apr. 26th, 2009 02:21 pm1. Swine Flu is not from eating pork, so keep eating bacon:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17026
2. Bacon and music, all weekend! Alas, I can't go (CSET test) but
http://baconwoodfestival.com/
The shirts are $15. Almost worth it just for the shirts...
Life is good. Steaks and Bang! last night at a lovely party, and work being accomplished. Gearing up for the CSET now, yes, B I will call!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17026
2. Bacon and music, all weekend! Alas, I can't go (CSET test) but
http://baconwoodfestival.com/
The shirts are $15. Almost worth it just for the shirts...
Life is good. Steaks and Bang! last night at a lovely party, and work being accomplished. Gearing up for the CSET now, yes, B I will call!
