Apace of Change

Longer post on this topic to follow. For now, just click to listen:
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Edit: Source: “Illiterate City”, by Divide & Kreate.  Best of Bootie 2007 .

My fellow NJ educator Ann (aka NJTechTeacher) tagged me with a “Seven Random Things” meme. Unaccustomed as I am to sharing the minutiae of my personal life, I’ll respond with a re-post of my participation in a similar meme from this past summer.
When I first posted this, I had only been blogging for four [...]

I watched waaaay too much TV as a kid. As such, I’ve not only soaked up mental gigabytes of useless pop culture trivia, but also the every-5-minutes advertising that is pervasive in American television broadcasting.
My first recollection of a TV commercial that really impacted me was for Murphy’s Oil Soap, from 1979 or 1980 [...]

So I’m seeing more and more folks in the edublogoblahblah are down with Facebook. I’ve been considering signing up for an account myself, but I’m wondering if, as a married man in his thirties (OK, just starting his thirties), maybe I’m too past it for Facebook. I had a MySpace account for about [...]

England’s new number 9?

(see, my grandad’s second cousin’s third wife’s cat is from across the pond – someone get FIFA on the phone).
In lieu of me jumpstarting my international career at age 30, here’s a picture of the cutest witch/monkey combo this side of Oz: