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American Idol — Top 5
James Durbin — Good performance. I found the song a little boring, not necessarily the performance, but the song wasn’t for me. The problem for James is that he has to try to top himself each week...
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American Idol — Top 2
After taking a few weeks off, it is time for the finale. I still feel that James Durbin should have been in the finale, but these two are great. What is really great about Scotty and Lauren...
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Thoughts about having a second child and letting the first one grow…
As I sit here with less than 12 hours until the fourth member of our little family is born, I have a chance to reflect on the last three years and what lies ahead. Child birth is a weird feeling....
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Finding Humor in the Frustrations of Parenting…
I received an e-mail a few weeks ago from a colleague with the PDF of a book entitled Go the F**k to Sleep by Adam Mansbach. I read through it an it was completely spot on in regards to trying to get...
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Rating ComEd after Poweropolypse…
The last 80 hours without free-flowing electricity have been trying but all in all not too bad. I have had mixed feelings about ComEd’s response. It is easy to just get angry and start blaming them...
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Bryan’s Appliance Repair
Our oven recently broke and we needed to call a repair man. Since I no longer keep a Yellow Pages in the house, I consulted Google. The most reliable result (the only one with a free positive review...
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Using the Red Bull Stratos Space Jump in Physics Class…
When I heard that a man, Felix Baumgartner, was going to jump from space I was intrigued at how I can use this in class. It is one of the unique teachable moments that comes each year that as a...
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Netflixitosis
I, and my wife, have found ourselves suffering from a new disease I am going to call Netflixitosis. Definition This is a condition that arises from being conditioned by your DVR to sense when it is...
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Natural disposition to eating cereal
For better or worse, the wife and I have no problem buying the kids sugary cereal. What I found interesting the other morning was that the children had learned to pick out the marshmallows from Lucky...
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Memorization and Learning and the Power of Games to Teach
I read in a reading I had to do for grad school there was a quote to the effect of, “If a child can memorize 100 Pokemon characters, they should be able to memorize the 101 countries and their...
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