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Zen Garden Bulldozer

In an ongoing story about an FS Zen Garden, L Monroe reports, “The Zen Garden has become a victim of eminent domain. The City of Winter Park has sent in their demo crew to make room for a new shopping center.” Note that no one seems to care about the sticky note graffiti in the …

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6 Phases of Teaching

Phase 1 You are listening to jazz –Your first day at work is great. Your fellow teachers are wonderful, your classroom is cute, you love your students, and your principal is the best! Phase 2 You are listening to pop music — After a while you are so busy that you are not sure if …

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Living in the Early Voting Line

So, I thought I’d avoid the horrendous lines on Voting Day by going to my local library for early voting on Wednesday, October 29th and ran headlong into the mother of all lines. Following are my whiny tweets from the event:

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“Natalie” from the Stormmaker 2003 recording

I wrote some time ago about the Curse of Digitally Enhanced Memories because it has a tendency of painfully pointing out how I seem to make the same relationship mistakes time after time. As if that weren’t bad enough, I have recordings from a former “Christian musician” life that most of my current friends would …

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Home Rig for Grading SL Presentations

Geek moment, Full Sail students were doing presentations in Second Life and I thought that I’d take a picture of my rig. On the right is my macbook pro with my two chat clients running on the extreme right and Second Life running on the rest of the screen. The laptop is connected to my …

Apple Fights Back – MS Still Doesn’t Get It

Buzz was that Microsoft’s last three ads changed the effectiveness of Apple’s “I’m a PC/I’m a Mac” ads. To recap: the first Seinfeld/Gates “Churro” ad left the techies wondering WTF and the general public wondering when Gates and Seinfeld’s new sitcom was going to be airing. The general public got their wish with the second …

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Writing About My Wonderfully Flawed Co-Workers

I need to be a bit more careful about the blog. I mean, I’ve been known to vent a bit and cause more than a few hurt feelings from said ventings. Alas, I met another Full Sail department director today who was familiar with the blog. Well, he was familiar because they have an app …

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Technologically Rich but Quality of Life Poor

I have a very good job in Florida teaching masters students how to use media and technology in their classrooms and businesses. I left a very uncertain situation in public education in California where most of my co-workers are going to have to look for other teaching jobs or interview to keep the jobs they …