Which One Did I Miss?

You paid atten­tion dur­ing 97% of high school! 85–100% You must be an auto­di­dact, because Amer­i­can high schools don’t get scores that high! Good show, old chap! Do you deserve your high school diploma?Cre­ate a Quiz Bet I missed that geomtery one. I never took geom­e­try, so I don’t know a right angle from a right turn.

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November 6, 2006 – 12:37 pm | Posted in Zen | Comments (2)

Archive of My 15 Minutes

Eight years ago–almost to the day–I was fea­tured in a New York Times arti­cle about using 3-D envi­ron­ments in online classes. Even had my ugly mug pho­tographed by Brownie Har­ris, the man who took the famous pic­ture of JFK, Jr. Some time, I’ll tell you what it’s like get­ting your pic­ture taken in com­plete dark­ness …

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October 29, 2006 – 2:22 pm | Posted in Essays | Comments Off

Not for nothing did I win the W.O.T.W. Award

You Passed the US Cit­i­zen­ship Test Con­grat­u­la­tions — you got 10 out of 10 cor­rect! Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?

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September 30, 2006 – 5:48 pm | Posted in Zen | Comments Off

That’s just wrong

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September 27, 2006 – 12:16 pm | Posted in Zen | Comments Off

Slacker, Me

My Per­son­al­ity Neu­roti­cism 40 Extra­ver­sion 75 Open­ness To Expe­ri­ence 93 Agree­able­ness 49 Con­sci­en­tious­ness 41 Test Your­self Com­pare Your­self View Full Report MySpace Sur­veys, MySpace Codes and MySpace Lay­outs by Pulse­ware Sur­vey Soft­ware “you pre­fer deal­ing with either peo­ple or things rather than ideas. You regard intel­lec­tual exer­cises as a waste of your time.” Bwahaha. Wrong!

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September 10, 2006 – 10:13 pm | Posted in Zen | Comments Off

W.I.N.

I am very hon­ored that my MG entry into the Smartwriters.com W.I.N. con­test, Yam­abushi and the Seven Gods of Hap­pi­ness, took an hon­or­able men­tion. Many thank-yous to Cyn­thia Leitich Smith, who judged the MG seg­ment. I am also more than a lit­tle befud­dled. Yam­abushi was a last-minute thing. I wrote a first chap­ter and an …

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August 1, 2006 – 10:38 am | Posted in Blog | Comments (17)