:: Description
You will read the Art of Possibility chapters 10 -12 and post one entry (or more) into your blog.

:: Rationale

pacbell by joe bustillos

Sometimes the road we take in the Universe of Possibility leads us in unexpected directions and to unimagined destinations. I took a summer job with Pacific Bell in California. That the company was called Pacific Bell might tell you how long ago that was. I met an energetic manager who shared with me that the secret to avoiding job boredom was to never stay in one job position for too long. He estimated that 18-months was usually more than enough time to get to know all one needs to know and then move on. He was an unusual entrepreneurial sprirt in a company that was much more well known for it’s “lifers” not making any waves and just putting in the time needed to get to retirement. I wasn’t as entrepreneurial as the manager but I knew, much to my family’s frustration, that there was something more for me to do. After finishing a second bachelor’s degree and nearing the end of my teacher credential program, Pacific Bell decided that it was time to let some people go. Normally that would have been a horrible thing, but for me the timing was perfect and I started my career as a public school teacher a few months after letting go of my 15-year “summer job” with the phone company.
Ah, but the story continues from there. Truth be told, being a teacher was somewhat akin to being a phone company drone in that the highest form of praise tended to be that one always showed up for work on time and never did anything that made work for others. Yeah, I somehow ended up in another world of “lifers.” Of course, I didn’t know any better so I kept doing things like teaching my students video journalism to help with their literacy and brought computers from home into my classroom. I guess I became a bit more entrepreneurial because I’d get involved in creating some new tech/ed/media program on campus, we’d have great success and then after a couple of years the funding would go away and I’d find myself working for another school/district, bringing tech/media to the natives. While getting a master’s degree and time spent working on a doctorate I continued the “create a tech program/find success/lose funding/change jobs” cycle three times. Alas, the doctorate program ran aground (twice), but I was lucky enough to work with Dr. Ludgate and somehow found a home on the opposite end of the country working for Full Sail. I am not the poster child for the Art of Possibility. But I am kind of stubborn as far as expecting a lot from myself because I’ve already been given so much. And if I can influence someone to not settle for the status quo, to push the technology, to enable their students, well then, that’s a damn good day.

The following video features someone who found amazing success, in many ways, through equally amazing failures. Having witnessed three of his incredible keynote speeches, this is not one of his better speeches. But the message is all the more real given the speech’s lack of polish. Enjoy.

:: Resources

The Practices
This books is less of a “study” book, where you try to analyze every sentence and paragraph and more a book that you want to move through and try to focus on the over-arching concepts presented. At the end of each chapter are some questions that form the “practices” part of the book. Use the questions to prompt your book notes that you will post in your blog. Feel free to answer the following study questions, or comment on the practices at the end of each chapter, or write about whatever moves you most (that’s directly related to the reading). Your choice.

Chapter 10. Being the Board: It’s not them. It’s not the circumstances. It’s me. It’s my choices. Now what do I do?

Chapter 11. Creating Frameworks for Possibility: How do I take this flash of insight and make it into daily thing? And how do I share this with others?

Chapter 12. Telling the WE Story: I told you it wasn’t about you. Have you been able to tap into the power of combining your expertise and passions with someone equally gifted? Have you had the pleasure of lifting a teammate, student, stranger up enabling them to realize their dreams and exceed anything that you could have imagined?

Coda: Now what do we do?

Sources:
Image: Pop!Tech 2008 – Benjamin Zander by Pop!Tech, http://www.flickr.com/photos/poptech2006/2968249798/ retrieved on 11/12/2009
image: pacbell01.jpg by Joe Bustillos, http://joebustillos.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/pacbell01.jpg retrieved on 11/12/2009
image: jbb & zander by Joe Bustillos, http://web.me.com/edm613/media/jbbnbzander.jpg retrieved on 11/12/2009
YouTube: Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 posted by peestandingup, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA, retrieved on 11/12/2009.

Sources:
blog: Is PSA on texting and driving too shocking? Technically Incorrect blog by Chris Matyszczyk. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10318015-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 retrieved on 9/9/2009

YouTube video: Graphic Crash, UK, Dangers of texting while driving PSA by Peter Watkins-Hughes and the Gwent, Wales police department, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdvFh95Yg6M retrieved on 9/9/2009

Part of my course at Full Sail is about media issues, you know, stuff like Copyright, Fair Use and Creative Commons. The “M” in our program title (EMDT) is Media and my students, who are in their ninth month of a year long Masters degree program, are expected to stare down this huge subject and come up with a reasonable approach to something that I tell them occupies the life’s work of an army of lawyers, policymakers and troublemakers. As I lay down guiding principles to understanding the moving target that is Copyright/Fair Use/Creative Commons the discussions tend to be quite lively and informative for all participants. One thing that I’ve never fully appreciated is how difficult and expensive it can be for teachers who want to follow copyright law who teach band, or theater or any of the other arts.

One teacher wrote in her class blog:

Seriously, the whole copyrighting thing….I get it. I understand why things are copyrighted. I just think it gets taken to an extreme and so many people suffer from it. I’m sorry, but this recording: (insert, mp3 of me playing Beethoven’s 5th Symphony with one hand on the piano but I couldn’t get to work properly) just doesn’t cut it when I’m teaching my kids about Beethoven. I know I am guilty of a lot of music copyrighting issues. I have gotten a lot better about it since I began teaching (that also comes with the experience and learning more and more about copyrighting). Music teachers have it tough – we aren’t allowed to photocopy music. No matter that it costs an average of $2-$5 per student copy (multiply by 25 students and you’re talking $50-$100 for ONE song). It’s simply unrealistic to think that any school can afford 10-15 songs PER CONCERT. I end up using a lot of the textbook series songs, which in it’s own right is probably not allowed either because it’s being performed live (but not broadcast). And of course, when you’re teaching the classics and the composers who wrote them, and they are not all in the series, you bring in your own music. How can a music teacher teach music without playing music?!??!? - “Alison Van”

Understanding the overwhelming power of motivated students (especially those under the age of 17), my first thought was that we needed to harness their creativity to come up with the music and art that we needed in the classroom to teach those just beginning to learn their craft. Then another student reminded me the role copying has always had in inspiring beginning artists. Oh yeah…

I think everyone uses something they’ve seen, heard, or read in a book or movie as inspiration. Using sports as an example, every kid with a basketball tries to imitate Michael Jordan’s moves on the court… Jenkins (Convergence Culture, 2008) makes this correlation with fledgling writers. By imitating or using the J.K. Rowling’s books as a starting point beginning writers understand good structure, character development, and how to tell a story. By using Jordan’s moves you understand how to attack the rim, how to play tenacious defense, and how to find openings. In both cases you aren’t trying to invent the wheel just make it better. Jenkins cites the fact that using someone else’s characters gives writers distance and takes the pressure off of drawing from one’s own experiences. - Jay Hom

This got me thinking. Clearly something is really messed up here. I mean, when it comes to students learning how to write and posting things in an educational or non-profit environment it’s pretty clear that there should be a special license for this, recognizing that beginning writers/artists always begin by copying the masters who came before them. From before the beginning of recorded history, persons wanting to learn a craft became apprentices in the service of a master, and what was their first job? Generally they spent years copying the works of the master until they proved themselves to be creative and skilled enough to be permitted to work on their own works. No one starts from scratch. This is where the media business and commerce has failed to recognize how humans, by nature, do things. Where would today’s artists be if it weren’t for an art teacher, a music teacher, a drama teacher or an English teacher? Even if the teacher’s influence was negative, inspiring the young artist to prove them wrong, the inspiration brought them that much closer to their dream. And who did the artists copy when they were learning how to draw, to play an instrument, to write, to imagine?

Let me put it this way, there’s something wrong in requiring the teacher to pay the student. In educational/non-profit situations teachers should have a special license to use the copyrighted works that they need to use in order to train the next generation of artists. This license should either be free or extremely inexpensive and any payment should be made directly to the composer/artist/writer and not to a publishing house or agency. If this seems to unreasonable to the media industry let’s use the same tactic used by the industry and begin by assuming that behind every artist, agency or media business was an educator and/or educational institution that got the artist, agency or business started. And so for every media property licensed, every paycheck generated from a piece of media, every negotiation related to any piece of art, music, literature, videos, any creative work, 10 percent of the gross must be paid to the educational institution or educator(s) who had a hand in beginning and/or nurturing the artist’s career. And given the media industry’s proven track record for creative accounting, artists/agencies/businesses unable to do the math will have a minimum of 10 percent deducted from their pre-tax gross income. This seems fair given the number of years educators and educational institutions devote to developing these artists. Or maybe a special educational use license (something like the creative commons license) could be employed. Either way, the business of taxing teachers and educational institutions in the business of producing the next generation of artists is just another example of how out of control and greedy the industry is willing to be. Getting back to my first notion, there is a lot of talent in the high school and college music programs that should be harnessed to create “Creative Commons” pieces that could be freely used in educational teaching and performances and the whole educational system should turn their backs on an industry that forgets that their “artists” first learned their love of their craft via the efforts of an underpaid classroom teacher.

In a blog that featured the opening video of PS22′s chorus singing the Fleetwood Mac song “Landslide” there were a few comments about what a beautiful performance it was but how pissed the RIAA was going to be. The blogger wrote, “Just got word from Stevie Nicks’ tour manager that she was completely blown away by the PS22 Chorus rendition of her song “Landslide!” He said she asked him to replay two times afterward, crying each time she watched! Talk about humbling!! And the kicker?? She invited the PS22 Chorus to sing the song at Madison Square Garden for the upcoming June 11th Fleetwood Mac show!! Holy cow!!!”

It’s been my experience that when the artist, the actual person responsible for the creative work, is brought into the picture they recognize the power of hearing or seeing their work re-imaged by the generation of artists coming up. And in the age of the Internet and email we educators are only one contact away from securing the releases that respect copyright while supporting the need to train and teach the next generation of artists. When Neil Finn, Crowded House lead singer, heard PS22 perform one of his tunes he said that it was “the most hopeful sound on earth.” Amen, Neil.

Crowded House & PS22 Chorus PRIVATE UNIVERSE live!

Sources:
* “Why Publish Student Work on the Web: PS22 Chorus Perform ‘Landslide’ by Fleetwood Mac” on Open Thinking blog at http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/1603, retrieved 5/29/2009
* http://alisonvan.blogspot.com/2009/03/week-3-wimba-session-2-for-real.html retrieved 3/29/2009
* http://web.me.com/jayhom/MAC/Jay_Hom_Blog/Entries/2009/4/19_Week_2_-_Chapter_5_-_Fan_Inspiration.html# retrieved 4/21/2009
* “Augusta Savage, artist – 1930s film” (video) posted by Bob Bobster at http://www.flickr.com/photos/32912172@N00/3240099122/in/set-72157608250741007/ retrieved on 5/30/2009
* PS22 Chorus PRIVATE UNIVERSE opening for CROWDED HOUSE at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5-FViUB490 retrieved on 5/30/2009
* Crowded House & PS22 Chorus PRIVATE UNIVERSE live! at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQniDM38450 retrieved on 5/30/2009

In the ISTE Keynote address that I heard Negroponte introduce the XO-1 he quipped that they must be doing something right to have raised the ire of Intel and Bill Gates. Alas, maybe the joke in the end was on Negroponte when Intel promised to play fair but couldn’t resist the temptation to undercut Negroponte’s “humanitarian cause” and sell their competing kid-size ultra-light laptop, the Classmate, to the same countries Negroponte was trying to reach. So the Gospel according to Negroponte fell on deaf ears because the Win/Tel hegemony couldn’t hear the words for the vastness, opportunities and profits presented in possibility of harvesting the Third World educational/government technology nickel.

This holiday season the OLPC foundation is repeating their give one/get one campaign that I participated in last year to get my own XO-1, only this time they’re working with Amazon.com to get the word out and do the distribution. The commercials are very cute. My own XO-1 sits on a top shelf in my bedroom, part of my shrine to sentimental technology I’ve previously invested in (I really wish I had kept one of my old Kaypros to put in the shrine). I hate to think that Dvorak and the others might have been right after all.

The humanitarian cause and hardware rational was sound. But I was hoping to use my XO-1 as some kind of netbook or ultra-light laptop. After a year I found the Sugar interface confusing and the hardware just too underpowered. Click, wait, find a webpage, click, wait, how the hell do I switch back and forth between pages? Seriously. Right size, great battery life, indestructible, a little weak with the tiny keyboard (kid-sized, right?). I really wish Apple would come out with a netbook/ultra-portable jbb

Ashley,

Greetings. First off, I’m guessing that you don’t know how scary it is to get an email on the corporate account with the subject line: “About your blog…” Yikes. I’m so happy to help out in any way that I can (and not be in trouble!). My first thought is something the rock-star Sting said about how he believed that one has to write everyday if one expects to write well. That is, that one shouldn’t expect to write…

a great song or poem or anything if one doesn’t take the time to do it every day. That’s a bit old school, but it’s true that we need to do the things that are important to us daily. The other thing, that is so true today and wasn’t back when I started writing, is that blogging isn’t just about writing but also about sharing pictures, ideas or even the line of a great song. It’s about finding something that makes you stop and think and then sharing that with someone else. A lot of the stuff that I blog about often comes from podcasts I listen to or something that I found on the web. I’ll post the original video and just add my two-cent reflection.

Blogging is a big part of the course I’m teaching here at Full Sail (Media Asset Creation). And the funny thing is that, because most grad students are a bit grade-focused, they usually have a hard time with the idea that I just want them to use their blog to think out loud about their experiences in my course and experiences at Full Sail in general. Ironically, now that they probably have the language skills to express themselves and have the experience of the world to have something meaningful to say, they generally don’t want to say something “stupid” or “wrong.” Whereas when they were nine you probably couldn’t get them to shut up about the moths that their little brother thought were weird looking butterflies, for example. And teenagers, I worked with middle school kids before coming here and I still get messages from them on my MySpace where they can’t be bothered to put anything in the subject line and the whole post is “s’up.” Anyway, I’m hopeful that over the course of the short month I have my students I’ll get something more expressive than “s’up” and less rambling than stories about weekends working with dad in the backyard. Oh yeah, it does help to encourage them to look for a graphic to include with their post… that sometimes inspires the ones of few words and breaks the concentration of those too in love with the flow of their own rambling thoughts. Works for me… usually. I hope that this helps Ashley. Just let me know if you need anything else.

jbb

Music: “Re: Your Brains” by Jonathan Coulton on the “Thing a Week Two“ CD.

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Then again, when I think of it, I was the one to use the same “text stored as a graphic” technique used by the dissidents, but with my middle school students when I wanted to give them something to type and yet prevent them from just copying and pasting the text. “JPG” text FTW. Of course some of the kids figured out that all they needed to do was to strike a deal with one of their more-keyboard savvy classmates to give them a copy of the completed assignment. Damn tricky students. But the assignment really wasn’t worth me investing any greater effort to thwart their work-around. I doubt the district or Chinese officials would come to the same conclusions. jbb

Music/Podcast: Systm – Build Your Own NAS from the album “Systm (Small Quicktime)” by Revision3

Thanks for your good thoughts, prayers and continued support. jbb

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Music: Buffalo Soldier from the album “Legend” by Bob Marley & The Wailers

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* “Welcome to the Real World” performed & written
by jane child, off the 1989 “Jane Child” CD available at Amazon and

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Another friend sent a “congratulatory” email about the new job and move and then added that my infrequent communication and lack of effort to communicate over the past year or so must mean that I don’t really want him in my life as a friend. Did I mention that I find myself shielding my heart so that I can make the transition without falling apart? This would be another reason for that strategy. I mean, I still have to get up every morning and do a job that in normal times (there I go with the “normal times” again) would take everything out of me to do, just because I’m that kind of person when it comes to my job. At the same time and for some time, and perhaps part of the reason that I’m able to even consider the move to Florida, I find that after giving little bits of myself every day, that there is no one in my life just for me. I love my family and the broad cadre of friends I’ve had over the years, but without someone to call my own here in California, I see Florida and the work that I’m going to do there as a possibility of getting the balance straightened out between what I give every day and what I need to keep going every day.

I wish that my relationships were such that we could all cut whole chunks out of our days and evenings and just meet some place and appreciate each other’s company and friendship. I’ve been lucky enough over the years to have had that from time to time, but it feels like it’s been a very long time since those days. That was one of the fun things about being in the doctorate program at Pepperdine, struggling through the course work together during the day and then relaxing together in the evenings. Thus, I’m hopeful that the collegial work environment in Florida will be more conducive to having better connections with the people I spend all of my time with.

I will miss working with the kids and am hopeful that some of them will keep in contact with me. I guess that’s what it comes down to: the ability/desire for all parties to keep the communication going and the compromises we all make because there are always other things that demand our attention. It’s no ones fault that we don’t have enough time to hang out at some bar together. We do what we can do, and celebrate the times when we are able to enjoy each other’s company. I want more of that in my life and wish wholeheartedly for that for all whom I’ve called “friend” over the years. And I wish that I’d had more of that in a more deep and meaningful way, but instead of being depressed about it all I choose to celebrate the times that I have had and look forward to the new ones in the future. The future, beginning with having sushi next Wednesday with the friend who just canceled. jbb

Music: Thank U from the album “Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie” by Alanis Morissette

And then yesterday evening, after a very long day with my students, followed by lots of book packing, I walked up to my car and discovered that someone had torn the rear windshield wiper off of my car, leaving only the bolt and empty space where the wiper had previously been. I was too tired to get mad but it really soured my mood. Previously when my car(s) have been vandalized I usually have to remind myself that whoever did this has no idea who I am and just does it on a dare or moment of stupidity. But finding it like that in my school parking lot where I’m pretty well known, I can’t imagine that this was completely random. Little amoral f*ckers, just another reason why I’m glad to be leaving. Sad that someone had to sour my attitude when for the most part all I have are great memories of my students. Damn. I guess it’d be much worse if I felt trapped and didn’t feel like there was nothing that I could do to change things and make my situation better. Only two-and-a-half weeks to go. I need to get out of here before something else decides to break. JBB

Music: The Royal Scam from the album “Citizen Steely Dan: 1972-1980 (Disc 3) [Box Set]” by Steely Dan

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Music: Love and Leave from the album “Love and Leave” by MiNG

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Also, the give-one-get-one program will start back up from August to September 2008.

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* Engadget moaned that the OLPC was “finally getting at least one foot firmly grounded in reality with the upcoming Windows XP version.” Right. Angels in heaven cry.

For the past three years I’ve been running a small 40-station mac lab and the other morning I was met by a little error message that I’ve seen several times before but have previously ignored: “Your startup disk is almost full. You need to make more space available on your startup disk by deleting files.” with a giant red exclamation mark. In a normal “lab,” being the administrator, I’d log on to the computer and go through the users folders and do some housecleaning: deleting “strays,” duplicates and large hard disk hogs. But my district, in it’s infinite wisdom, has given me an administrator account that cannot see into any user folders (or install any applications), which makes the account largely useless and is also why I previously ignored the error message. Alas, as we head toward the end of the school year, my classes are working on large InDesign files and the error message is going to show up on more and more computers. I could ignore the message, but eventually, without some intervention, this situation is going to grind the whole lab to a screeching halt. So I sent a little message to the powers that be in the district office via the helpdesk help ticket form:

Brief Description ………… Admin access to user folders on computers
Detailed Description ……. Users are saving files locally instead of saving work on classroom server, so computers are running out of space. Every time a new user logs in a new collection of files is being created. Admin account does NOT allow access to these user folder. I need access in order to purge abandoned logins and folders where users are saving their work. I need access to all user folders of all computers.
Troubleshoot Steps ……. logged in to computers around the lab. cannot access user folders.
Then the firestorm began.

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Of course I didn’t know I’d begun a firestorm until my department head, the other computer lab teacher, told me the next day that she’d gotten emails from district IT managers and was on the phone with them because they were thinking of changing out the admin account and wondered why I was wanting to access user folders. I guess either I wasn’t clear enough with my memo or they didn’t believe me. My department head convinced them not to change out the local admin account (which would have been the third time they change it in the last 12-months), but said that they were concerned that the district admin account was going to leak out. So rather than upgrade the privileges of my little pathetic local admin account, ’cause God knows I’m going to rape and pillage the network infrastructure, they decided that they would send out a technician to come out to my lab and manually do the hard drive pruning for me.

Okay. I’m sure that most of my fellow educators would welcome direct district intervention ’cause we already have a full-time job teaching, so their willingness to deal with the hardware would be generally thought of as a “Plus.” Yeah, that would again be in a normal world. But I live in a world where this district and school doesn’t have enough money to have very many electives beyond my own journalism/yearbook/computer basics courses (which will probably all “go away” when I move to Florida). I work in a district and school were one person in every core department is having to find a job at another school. I work in a district and school where there aren’t enough technicians to really support the aging technology that we are using (I mean, it took them four months to send someone out the last time I issued a trouble ticket). So the logic of sending someone out versus upgrading my anemic admin account escapes me.

See part of the reason I get fired up about things like this is because I’ve seen it before and it’s never good for the end users, in this case, our students, and is tremendously wasteful of the most important resource at the disposal of the district, the onsite technician, in this case moi. Twenty-nine-years ago, as a greenhorn in the switch-rooms of Pacific Bell I saw switchmen ignore alarms because the company was transitioning to a centralized management system where they were told what to work on by a remote management office. In hindsight, once the technology was much more mature and no constant human supervision was required, I guess the remote management system saved money. But at the time it was a perfect example of an facility management philosophy that failed to value one of the company’s best assets: the pride of the onsite technician to make sure that “his” equipment was always up and working. All of that was being thrown away because the business managers believed that the technology was going to get good enough to eliminate expensive human intervention. Sadly over time the managers were correct and the giant phone company buildings that used to be a buzz with armies of technicians managing the switches are either empty cavernous memorials or have been replaced with small unmanned one room buildings. Unfortunately (or fortunately) education is not like the phone company, thus the remote management model will never really work.

Technology companies like the phone company are by nature dependent on continually re-investing in their technology. It’s what they sell to their customers. Education, on the other hand, almost always under-invests or invests just enough to put the hardware in the classroom for the photo-op but never enough for ongoing maintenance or training. Remember, remote-management requires stable, mature technology operating in an a stable consistent environment. One of the things the phone company learned, which was very different from the old electro-magnetic physical switch days, was that things always worked better when you had as few as possible humans sticking their fingers in the mix. That is, the old switch required daily physical maintenance by that army of technicians I mentioned earlier. The newer electronic switches operated best as closed boxes that no one touched after installation. But technology in an educational environment, by definition, is going to be manhandled by armies of little and big humans every day and every hour that the school is operating. Therefore technology in education requires a greater onsite support system, and a more balanced investment between hardware/software, maintenance and training. The fact that technology continues to function in the classroom is largely due to teachers and volunteers working around the system, making personal investments in the classroom technology to make it work or tolerance for systems that don’t work to the point of really never using the technology (“because it’s always broken!” is the too frequent refrain).

So the district technician came out, spent a couple hours logging in to every computer and deleting any file not accessed since the beginning of April. The original “disk full” computer turned out to have other problems that is going to require that I issue another trouble-ticket so that the technician can come out and do a more thorough system re-image. He’s been out to my lab one other time fixing network login problems and a iMac with a dead CRT. I do appreciate the support, especially with the latter three problems that I didn’t want to have to troubleshoot. But at the same time the relationship needs to be more symbiotic where I can do the small, needs to get fixed now things like emptying unused user logins or reinstalling a broken application and they can come out and troubleshoot network bugs. But as long as they insist on locking me out, then I am more apt to let little bugs remain and wait until I run out of enough computers for students to use before I issue a ticket. Eventually the system will grind itself to a halt. The system is not working and in 22-days it is going to lose me as an unutilized assett. jbb

Music: DUVET/Lain Opening Theme from the album “lain: Serial Experiments” by BOA

“Serial Experiments Lain – Boxed Set (Signature Series)” (Geneon [Pioneer])

Music/Podcast: PreRecorded Friends Show #45: Scott B. in Orlando from the album “PreRecorded Friends” by PreRecorded Friends

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Related Twitters:

• damn grades finally turned in. gave my students a “heads up” on what 2 expect. That brilliant move resulted in total chaos all day. ack # 2008-04-07
• Totally blew off last night, was beat after taxes/grades/income tax weekend. Open House 2night. Need 2 maintain progress # 2008-04-08
• open house will be over in 16-minutes. Lots of “how’s my kid doing?” ‘course the parents asking r here so chances r these r the “good” kids #
• skipped dinner @ 6, I’m famished. #
• the chaos after the storm: survived grades, open house; having a hard time concentrating/getting started on next things #

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To that end, I just saw this video on Cali Lewis‘ Geek Brief podcasts and she said that when she showed it to some family members they suddenly understood it and started to Twitter. If only …. The following is from the folks at the CommonCraft show at www.commoncraft.com.

BTW, I’m jbb on twitter and you can catch my little 140 character witticisms at http://twitter.com/jbb

Music: If It Makes You Happy (Featuring Chrissie Hynde) from the album “Live From Central Park” by Sheryl Crow

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Music/Podcast: Mac OS Ken: Day 6 No. 8 from the album “Mac OS Ken: Day 6″ by Ken Ray

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