Entries from October 2009

Why didn’t they have this when I was a kid? The Crayola camcorder. Uses AA batteries and an SD memory [...]

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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 [...]

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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] [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Great piece by Patrick Welsh in the Washington Post. My students knew intuitively that the reason they were lagging academically [...]

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

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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 [...]

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12seconds – Untitled http://tiny12.tv/8PZ8D

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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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