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Spaceship wrangling
Just wanted to share a little story from X3: Terran Conflict, because I'm having so much fun after playing it for four days straight ( Read more... ) -
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Step one, record sleep data in a spreadsheet. Step two, calculate a moving seven-day average. Step three, color-code for above or below my nine-month average. Step four, zoom way, way out:
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Teaching skills
I made a YouTube playlist out of the Uncommon Schools teaching techniques. Fascinating to me:- The specific techniques -- how to keep people's attention without asking for it, how to avoid using praise (which people distrust) and give them acknowledgment instead.
- The idea of reducing good teaching to trainable skills
- The idea of teaching these ( Read more... )
- The specific techniques -- how to keep people's attention without asking for it, how to avoid using praise (which people distrust) and give them acknowledgment instead.
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Here's an article detailing the specifics of waterboarding as we practiced it:One of the more interesting revelations in the documents is the use of a saline solution in waterboarding. Why? Because the CIA forced such massive quantities of water into the mouths and noses of detainees, prisoners inevitably swallowed huge amounts of liquid - enough ( Read more... ) -
Five-factor personality test results
"Which Muppet character are you?" is not my idea of a personality test. Geoffrey Miller's book Spent got me interested in psychology's Big Five Personality Traits, which are supposed to be all independent of each other so you can really describe someone with them. (I'd heard of them before I read Spent, but I didn't really believe in them or see ( Read more... ) -
Did Hugo Chavez declare himself a Marxist?
I fact-checked a claim by the Economist and there were no English-language sources in the search results, so I thought I'd better post what I found. The Economist wrote:
In his annual address to Parliament, earlier this month, the president announced (to no one’s surprise) that he was now a Marxist.
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I have knowledge that the rest of the Internet doesn't know, at least per my Google search. If you want to use Yahoo Calendar to schedule something every other week, what you do is pick "Repeat Every Week", and then change "Every" to "Every Other ( Read more... ) -
My D&D character art is up!
AvatarArt.com has finished illustrating my very first D&D character! His name is Chroma, and he's standing underneath a thin magical membrane holding back a boiling underwater lake -- the "boiling bubble" from the classic D&D adventure White Plume Mountain. Here he is (click on picture for the larger size):
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the Iraq war is over, do you know why?
The people who served in the Sunni Awakening no longer want to cooperate with the Americans. The Iraqi government hasn't tried to assimilate them at all. But it doesn't matter:What has not followed the drop in violence is a political settlement: for the past year analysts have worried that the failure to disarm or integrate the Sunni Awakening ( Read more... ) -
My response to that is pending a Google search.
Get Fuzzy has given me a new catchphrase, or at least expressed what it's like to talk to me these days.
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