07/14/2010
11:35 AM
Training, Days 2-3
As of noon day 3: In the last three nights, I’ve gotten 14 hours sleep; 8 hours a night would be 24, so I am pretty much a zombie. The car needs to go into a shop for something related to power steering, probably a blown pump. Meanwhile the car is horrible to turn and [...]
07/12/2010
11:50 AM
Summer Training, Day 1, noon check-in
Major trouble hauling myself out of bed this morning; over a year and a half with no schedule from one day to next (longest exception was two weeks, second longest was a week and a half, the rest were mostly 1-2 day jobs or 3 here and there) is brutal for an insomniac. Made it [...]
07/06/2010
10:54 AM
Newsflash: Sleep is Good
When school began at 8 a.m., 66% of students reported feeling “somewhat unhappy or depressed.” After delaying the first bell until 8:30, that figure fell to 45%. Likewise, the percentage of students who said they felt “irritated or annoyed” fell from 84% to 63%. (They were still teenagers, after all.) source In other words, teenagers [...]
07/03/2010
12:35 AM
Barely Controlled Chaos
Grad school…including the class that I didn’t finish last semester. I’ve got an exam scheduled for this month, and very few good clear study days left in the semester, to work on projects, with everything else going on. Moving…have a chance to move into an over-garage apartment, with yard and house access, for $300/month less [...]
06/17/2010
03:12 PM
Dear webdevs, quit failing
I use StumbleUpon now and then. Every now and then I turn up a site worth revisiting; reasonably frequently, I find something worth poking about in for a few minutes or something that presents a clear one-shot use like a paper or lesson plan topic. It’s a good way to scan through many sites quickly…which [...]
06/07/2010
12:59 PM
Project accomplished
06/06/2010
06:46 PM
Constructivism in Context
The point is not to have the students reinvent every wheel. It is to have them reinvent enough wheels to get the idea that the other wheels they learn about can also be invented.
06/02/2010
06:30 PM
Craft Store Find
A nice circle-based print that picks up one of the colors from the tunic top I’m working on (which is being made from fabric from the completely unrelated source known as a sheet bought also on sale in junior year). On sale. Heck yes.
05/29/2010
12:18 AM
All this for a decent pair of pants…
I have a chance to pick up a few bucks tomorrow by picking up some work that otherwise wouldn’t get done for BF’s boss. Cool. For this, I need black pants…which I didn’t have. So, off to the store…where they have sparkly crap, pants that don’t even come close to zipping up, and pants that [...]
05/10/2010
02:32 PM
Can anyone crack this code?
The following message contains the instructions for cracking the code. (See also: recursion.) (11395, 8510, 329, 138, 500973, 956358, 15521, 952622, 1051202854, 21, 138, 956358, 15521, 15351, 43579081, 337212, 1794, 173745241989, 138, 337212, 143, 8510, 251503, 21, 208351, 5, 61835462, 6251, 8510, 251503) (21, 995596, 138, 14663860, 3469305, 2015, 5639703311710, 138, 251503)
