It took me approximately one hour to retool my new computer. I added iTunes, Chrome, PhotoFiltre, NVU, CMaps and a few open source programs. I cleared out the annoying programs that have no place in my Windows Vista (yes, I have a PC and I'll tell you
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The first way you can subscribe (and the way that is most fun for me) is to become a friend/follower on the side of each blog. This lets your profile show up and it therefore gives me a chance to read your blogs. This will then show up in your Google
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I love to sketch things when I'm bored. I draw during staff meetings all the time. I've always been real self-concious about it, because I can draw and paint, but I'm not so great with doodles. Despite this, I'm going to start posting my "graven images"
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. . . check out the actual site today and click on the different rollover links at the top. I added pictures from a student named Itzel. She new what I wanted this blog to become and so the last week of school she made some sketches for me and for our
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It's hard not to see Tolstoy through the lens of hypocrisy of his own life. The man was almost abusive toward his wife (who was no jewel herself) and he wrote about social justice while never freeing his own serfs. He spoke loudly and boldly, but ran
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I find it disturbing how often the U.S. names weapons of mass destruction on conquered indigineous people groups. Photo Credit Flickr Creative Commons http://www.flickr.com/photos/destinysagent/2576915531/
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The most relevant trends right now seem to be those that are least relevant. I can't count the number of women (okay, and men) I know who have taken up knitting and crocheting. Most of my friends who own homes also have gardens. I can count about ten
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Ekstein offers four distinct narratives that seem entirely unrelated: the ancient history of Latvia, his family history, the present-day story or the former Soviet Union and post-war Eastern Europe. In doing so, he offers compelling, well-written prose
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I first read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in high school. At the time, I viewed it through the lens of a student. It sparked in me a sense of ideological rebellion. I wouldn't let the system indoctrinate me. I wouldn't allow myself to be doomed to
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Each day as I go to the gym, I see images of the protests in Iran. No context. No history. No explanation. So, I try to shelter myself by watching highlights on ESPN. Still, I hear about it on NPR and I read about it in Time and I can't help thinking
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This is an expansion on a comment I wrote on Science Teacher's Blog. I checked out my new class as a computer teacher. It's sterile and empty and quiet, save a few buzzing computers. Don't get me wrong, it's nice, much nicer than I am used to. The computers
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I used to mock the Data Divas. I called them Data Whores, because it seemed that they sold a sacred profession for a numerical quantity and to me they were the equivalent of zombies using dead ideas to feast on brains of the living or vampires sucking
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For this next review, I'm lumping together a few books that I'll label as "social behaviorist" in nature. While each book has a different aim, they each quote most of the same experiments and reach many of the same conclusions. The first, Predictably
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Ahead of time, a few completely unrelated announcements: 1. My wife and I will be having our third child in November (I think) People have known this for awhile, but I'm not sure I announced it on this blog. 2. I'm writing book reviews about books that
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I'm not the hippie, anti-fastfood, granola guy. True, we have a garden and I'm annoyed by marketing to children. However, we have days where my wife and I need a cool place to get away and so we relish the McDonald's PlayPlace and the dirt cheap fake
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