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Why didn’t they have this when I was a kid? The Crayola camcorder. Uses AA batteries and an SD memory card — i.e., standard and expandable. Connects to the computer (via USB) or direct to the TV. And it gets great reviews; it’s the best camcorder to buy if you want one for a kid. [...]

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Three o’clock on Friday is not the time best suited to concentrating at work. Just sayin’.

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For no good reason, I just sent sheep to a lot of people.

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In summer, I run a heater in my office. In cool weather I use a fan and duct tape the heater shut. Backwards land!

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Me, opening a container with a strange brown lump in it: What’s this?
Karen: I have no idea. [She inhales] AUUGGGHHHHHH!!!
Me: I’m guessing ’some kind of meat.’

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Cleaning the fridge. Apologizing to some of the stuff I’m throwing out, just in case it achieved sentience.

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… when the following phrases occur within moments of each other:
1. “Yes, that’s a pretty funny Spongebob face.”
2. “They usually don’t eat their dead.”

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I just rescued two dogs that Georgia was gonna put to sleep. Now they’re on their way to no-kill shelters in the North. “Bulldogs” my ass.

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RIP, Soupy Sales.

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Two things that made me laugh.
1. Bumper sticker: “Barefoot Women for McDonnell.”
(Background, for non-Virginians: In his Master’s thesis in 1989, McDonnell implied that women shouldn’t hold jobs, although he is now “fully supportive of women working in the workplace.”) Still, I don’t know what to make of the sticker. Is she pro-McDonnell and saying she’s [...]

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Great piece by Patrick Welsh in the Washington Post.
My students knew intuitively that the reason they were lagging academically had nothing to do with race, which is the too-handy explanation for the achievement gap in Alexandria. And it wasn’t because the school system had failed them. [...] Rather, it was because their parents just weren’t [...]

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Microsoft has apparently inked a deal with Facebook and Twitter for those services to incorporate its Bing search engine.
Per MSNBC:

Bing … will have access to Twitter’s entire store of public data in real time, [and] will become a new way to find out what people are saying in their Twitter messages — also known [...]

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“Do you enjoy going to the bathroom enough to earn $10,000?”
(Thanks, Eric!)

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It must be the new haircut. Or my incredibly insightful comments. Either way, they’re following me in droves. Some are planning to be models. Others have different career options. Oh, and they all offer some great suggestions for whitening your teeth and making money on Twitter.
[sigh] Spam, spam, spam, eggs and spam.

What’s crazy, though, is [...]

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12seconds – 12challenge: Who do you admire most? http://tiny12.tv/U67RH

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“Acute asthmatic bronchitis”

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