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Twittered Life
Some musings and collected links from the land of 140 characters this week.
My chicken comic is the first Google Images hit for defenestrate. Hooray.
I have a propensity for looking at my watch at exactly 13:37 and being needlessly amused.
Colbert vs. Cookie Monster = awesome
Poképresident = also awesome
That is all.
Once Upon A School
Dave Eggers, TED Prize 2008 winner, on making a difference in the classroom. Very inspirational.
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person. Your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion. [...]
YouTubed
Just got back from an interview at the mothership, and wondered if I should check what nonsense is associated with my name on Google. This one is new to me:
This and last week’s “demo lessons” in Changchun actually make me miss teaching Physics a little… I just had a lot more room for self-expression, instead [...]
Chicken vs. Shot Put
Some Things To Mention In Point Form.
Going to start posting comics on flickr as well. Go there for high-resolution (rather, super grainy) versions.
Related to above, from the left side of the page: “You’re the only person who has used “stupidchicken” as a tag.” YEAH I’M SO ORIGINAL WOO
The comics-only page is now accessible at comics.stupidchicken.com.
Sooner [...]
Chicken vs. Shoes
It’s been a year, but we’re back!
Experimenting with new lazy method — draw on whiteboard, take picture, touch up image, post. The uneven lighting and levels are very frustrating, though, so I might have to dig out the tablet..
Launch
Many Saturdays of getting-distracted-by-Xbox (and subsequent last-minute panicking) later, the new site is finally up!
Still plenty of things to do, and a few design elements I’m not super happy with, but Corp Comms wanted it up in time for the DSA talk. Comments and suggestions are, of course, welcome.
If you’re interested, here’s a screenshot of [...]
The good, and the mind-numbingly depressing
First, the good:
Designer Jon Hicks’ From Design to Deployment, a 50-minute, 100-slide presentation (downloadable slides at the link, unfortunately no video) on building an entire site (seen here: Cheesophile) from the ground up. Lots and lots of pertinent information about web design packed into some of the most concise and high-impact slides that I could [...]
Clean car keys
Gah! I really need to stop leaving my car key in the laundry.
Update, a day later: So far so good — the key seems to be working fine for now, but then it worked fine for a couple of weeks the last time too. After that, it decided to devour batteries at a rate of [...]
Firebugging work
I’ve been quite unnecessarily pleased with myself today, and this is why:
Yesterday was the last day for us to enter our students’ grades into the school’s results management system. As usual, I procrastinated badly, and ended up finishing my marking only at around 12.10am. I figured our programmer guy would give us some leeway and [...]
Campus shot
Almost two and a half months ago, my little programming group took on the project of redesigning the website for my workplace, as well as designing some kind of content management system that would allow easy updating by staff and corporate communications. (The photo above will be used in the new header.)
The current system requires [...]
Running to not feel like crap
I wonder why other people run. To get fit? To challenge themselves? To compete?
I run to not feel like crap. See this New York Times article:
Yes, Running Can Make You High
Researchers in Germany, using advances in neuroscience, report in the current issue of the journal Cerebral Cortex that the folk belief is true: Running does [...]
Wall of (mostly) Apple
The boarding apartment I’m staying in has a curious design at the front door — a 5 x 4 grid of rack space, apparently for people with a shitload of shoes. I decided to put up a little shrine to my favourite company there.
From left: Windows Vista (oops), iPod nano, Mac OS X Leopard, iBottle, [...]
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Who's the loser, eh? It's not who you think.
Garth Turner, Liberal MP and alleged communications guru, has gotten into trouble.
Again.
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As a result, he's been chewed out in a big way. Does that make him the real loser?
Yes, but perhaps surprisingly, not the biggest loser in this story.
Yeah, Garth Turner. What can you say that hasn't been said already.
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I know, it sounds nuts.
Part of me wonders if I was directed to this story by someone wanting to embarrass me.
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It makes no such demand of countries like India.
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And I mean gross.
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