Nov
21
2006
Something’s weird with this blog, and it’s not been letting me post (this may not post either), and it’s a slow news day. The timer just went off, so the potatoes are done.
Dinner
Roast pork
Scalloped potatoes
No weeds
Nov
21
2006
Romney to McCain: Move Over, You Socialist-Commie, Left-Wing Nut-Job
Nov
21
2006
The I Shouldn’t Be Alive Thanksgiving marathon?
Nov
21
2006
Remember the Brit super nanny who was reduced to eating her own feces and mumbling incoherently by Cartman in the Dog Whisperer episode? (Video here.) That was supposed to be a farce — but they think it’s a great idea in the UK:
A network of around 80 “super nannies” is being set up by the […]
Nov
21
2006
or I should say what passes for a critique, given that I’m busy with this hard disk problem, and the article doesn’t give a lot of information. As I said before, the results aren’t surprising, but the study seems to have a few problems.
The research team, led by psychology graduate student Jason Chan, designed three […]
Nov
21
2006
So I’m working on a project — well, I was. I suddenly started having serious problems on one of my external hard drives on my desktop, so I’m dealing with that. I’m running chkdsk right now — and it’s taking a LONG time. It’s been over three hours now and it’s just at the end […]
Nov
21
2006
This isn’t even a little surprising: Testing Improves Retention–Even of Material Not on Exam:
Teachers who give tests on a daily or weekly basis–often at the expense of their popularity–can take solace in a new study out of Washington University in St. Louis. Researchers found that tests help students remember what they’ve been taught–including the material […]
Nov
21
2006
When I reported this teaching seminar, I bet you thought I was kidding, didn’t you?
Jeremy began to breaking us into groups. He then gave each one of us a “culture” and a “belief system” to represent.
We had to work with our groups to best explain our “belief systems” while being “sensitive” to everybody else’s “belief […]
Nov
21
2006
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