Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Just discovered that SNL videos are "embeddable" (from the SNL site) just like YouTube videos! There's some great videos there from years and years ago, plus some current ones.
I'm mentioning it here, because of the "First CityWide Change Bank" one from years ago with Phil Hartman. This could actually help ...
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Sunday, August 5th, 2007
I recently led a workshop where I shared the following joke. It went over well, and those at the workshop encouraged me to post it on my blog, so.....here it is:
Backing up your work
Once upon a time, it was decided to have a contest of the greatest religious leaders in ...
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
This last week was "Pi Week" at my school.
We made a big deal of this, for several reasons, one of which was that we teach geometry, including the circumference and area of a circle, which is where the marvelous number pi shows up!
On Wednesday, Pi day, we had an Albert ...
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
This is another one of those things that I've held on to for years. In 1987, my Jr. High teacher, Mr. Raymond gave us this as a "Final Exam." It was a great little zinger to throw to those of us who are used to seeing past the surface of ...
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
This is another one of those scraps of paper that I found while cleaning up around my house. Some of you teachers might like this, especially those that spend any amount of time teaching students how to spell. I believe I saw a similar kind of thing (maybe in an ...
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
I know that it's officially no longer the Christmas season, but I was cleaning up around the house, since we are planning to move soon, and I found a sheet of paper with the following list of Christmas carols "in other words."
This isn't the only such list that I have ...
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Monday, December 25th, 2006
Windows Vista has fiiiiiinally been released.
Judging by this review by David Pogue, there won't be much for us Mac users to adjust to!
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
I just ran across this:
http://verizonmath.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0HyxQv97Q&eurl=
This is a recording of a customer support call to Verizon wireless. The issue is whether 0.002 CENTS is different from 0.002 DOLLARS. The Verizon rep doesn't seem to understand this. The infinitely patient, yet persistent, caller tries to explain this to the rep. Depending on ...
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Sunday, November 12th, 2006
In the last couple weeks of the recent election, this picture, and John Kerry's careless, bad joke about the troops...er...Bush was a hot news item.
As a teacher, it was a bit funny to see spelling conventions used as a crucial part of a joke (the soldiers' joke in response to ...
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