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Let’s Try To Talk To Bob!

Posted in Random, tagged , , on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I just sent the following email to “bob@aol.com,” a complete stranger who I can only assume exists.  I remember in college in the mid to late 90′s, there were plenty of people who figured that all email addresses were “@aol.com,” so it makes sense that some awesome individual snatched up “bob” in fairly short order. [...]

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Defining Down Dorkiness

Posted in Politics and Society, tagged , , , , , , , on July 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Picture a kid wearing earphones all the time, wrapped up in his private musical world.  At school, he keeps the wires hidden under his shirt or jacket, and he might share one of the earphones with a friend.  At home, he likely spends a lot of his free time getting seriously engrossed in the latest [...]

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Annoy a Sanctimonious Environmentalist

Posted in Humor, tagged , on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I just made this sticker.  If only bicycles had bumpers…

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Book of Moses Commentary Part V: What I Wish To Tell the Young Women of the Church

Posted in Religion, tagged , , , , , , on July 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Moses 8:13-15 reads: “And Noah and his sons hearkened unto the Lord, and gave heed, and they were called the sons of God.  And when these men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, the sons of men saw that those daughters were fair, and they took [...]

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The One-Man OmniBlog!

Posted in Random, tagged , , on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s an arbitrary milestone that captures the essence of what I hope to create here: as of today, this blog now employs over a thousand individual subject tags.  Some day, I’d like to have ten thousand.  And then, the world is mine!  Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha!

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The Deification of Youth and Imbecility

Posted in Politics and Society, tagged , , , , on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve seen this clip in two other places in the last 24 hours: at Jr. Ganymede, and at First Things (from whence I stole the title of this post–it’s too perfect to ever be improved upon).  In three minutes, Craig Ferguson brilliantly elucidates a thesis that Diana West devoted 300 pages to in her book, [...]

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Book of Moses Commentary Part IV: Fathers Must Teach Their Sons the Gospel

Posted in Politics and Society, Religion, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »

[Previous installments here, here, and here] Quick, who can spot the pattern in these two verses? “Seth lived one hundred and five years, and begat Enos, and prophesied in all his days, and taught his son Enos in the ways of God, wherefore Enos prophesied also.”  Moses 6:13 “And Jared lived one hundred and sixty [...]

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Blame The Teachers?!

Posted in Education, tagged , , , , on July 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »

An article in last Friday’s Las Vegas Review-Journal was called, “School district fails to meet ‘No Child’ goal.”  Apparently, the culprit behind our city’s epidemic academic failures is obvious to the media: blame the teachers! Gee, why didn’t they call it “Local students fail to meet ‘No Child’ goal,” since they’re the ones who actually [...]

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Ave Atque Vale: Dr. Jeffrey Michael Stitt

Posted in Education, Language and Literature, tagged , , , on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I just got an email informing me of the passing of longtime UNLV professor Dr. J. Michael Stitt.  Though I’d seen Mike at several department meetings at the beginning of semesters, my main memories of him will be from the class I had him for as an undergrad.  Here’s the comment I left in this [...]

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Basketball Trivia

Posted in Random, tagged , on July 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Pop quiz time, folks.  There are only four teams in the NBA whose names do not end in “s:” the Utah Jazz, the Orlando Magic, the Oklahoma City Thunder, and _________.  The first person to comment with the right answer (without looking it up, please!) may email me their physical address and get their choice [...]

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Visual aids for A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Posted in Humor, Language and Literature, tagged , , , , on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I taught this great play last week for a few reasons: students tend to be exposed to Shakespeare’s tragedies to the exclusion of the comedies, it’s short and accessible, and it’s timely (check the title against the calendar).  It was a big hit, but I noticed that kids got a little lost with the names [...]

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“Take refuge in nature, labour, sleep, music, or human understanding”

Posted in Language and Literature, Living well, tagged , , , on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labour, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!” –Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

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Summer School Follies

Posted in Education, tagged , , , on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

First of all, I like summer school. Its compacted time frame forces it to be rigorous, disciplined, and serious. Tardies and absences get hammered pretty quickly, daily quizzes and grade updates keep the kids on top of their game, and the fact that they (or their parents) had to pay for it creates an immediate [...]

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Chinese Quizlets

Posted in Education, tagged , , on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I just found a Web site called Quizlet that offers wiki-fied flashcards on a huge array of topics.  You can look up other people’s cards, or submit your own.  I’m really digging this one, one of many, many Chinese sets.  A lot of the Chinese flash cards don’t include the tones, so they’re not very useful, [...]

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Beethoven and The Righteous Brothers?

Posted in Arts, tagged , , , on July 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Is it just me, or does the second movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata no. 23 sound similar to The Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling?”  Here they are; compare them and let me know what you think.  Am I nuts here?  Especially listen to the third and fourth minutes of the Beethoven piece and [...]

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