I’ve Had Some Terrible Summers
…And this isn’t one of them You wouldn’t think summer is a stressful time for a teacher, and I’m not looking for anyone to feel sorry for me for anything. B...
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personal
Fat Burgers
Yesterday, I tried a new method of cooking burgers after a few years of only making smash burgers. My opinion has been that flattening burgers prioritizes br...
Can I blog from my phone?
This is my first post using a CMS to manage this blog. Since I can blog from my phone this way, expect many more typos. And more posts. At least, that’s the...
A Test For Living Long Permalink
This story on NPR describes a survey you can take to check up on your preparedness to enter the later phase of your life. “Unlike one more survey or inde...
Computing Update - April
I’m just at the end of school’s April break, and from early April to now I’ve been messing around with hardware and software at home, and I recorded none of ...
Outer Wilds Hot Shot and YouTube Achievements
Apologies in advance that this post is a bit of a ride. I’m not sure who the audience is, but that’s never stopped me before. Yesterday I uploa...
Owl See You Later
I have been purposefully ignoring Duo for the last couple of days. While I understand that the point of Duolingo streaks is to encourage you to continue st...
One Thing About Me and Indigestible Fat
A couple of years back there was a trend in short videos. People were rapping over an instrumental version of a Nicki Minaj song1. The first lyr...
Back to the Pens
Sorry, but you’re probably going to get pen posts. These are some pens I dug up out of my collection, cleaned, and resurrected. Recently – at ...
Pancakes of the Past and Future
Click for larger, complete images. Way back when my girls were ...
First DaVinci Resolve Video
Here’s a video I made yesterday using DaVinci Resolve. There’s an explanation below. Recently, I have moved my work from an older computer to a ...
education
The Best Teacher Appreciation
It’s teacher appreciation week, which means that teachers all over (as seen in places like the Reddit teacher forum) are discussing what their districts do ...
Educators Meet Agents
I just got back from an AI-focused PLTW professional development session run by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The topic was moving (our underst...
Pico-8 vs. MakeCode Arcade
PICO-8 is a fantasy console that provides an environment for creating, sharing, and playing small digital games and programs. PICO-8 deliberately embraces li...
Future Ready: AI in the Classroom Permalink
This week I traveled to Westborough to participate in the two-day kickoff of an AI in the Classroom initiative. You can read the state press release about it...
Escort Mission Game 
I teach a game creation class at the high school, and one of the platforms we use is Microsoft MakeCode Arcade. I’ve written about it before. Students have...
Why Computer Science Matters Now
Teaching the Future: Why Computer Science Matters Now In my classrooms, in my school, in my town, and beyond, challenges have been pressing in from every di...
CSTA: A Teacher-Centered Approach to Reimagining CS Professional Development Permalink
I haven’t had time to write about this post, so I’m making this link post. At a busy time in the term, someone brought this article to my attention, and the...
Supernatural Classroom Management
The image above and the following explanation were created with ChatGPT for entertainment purposes. The narrative of the images above is as follows: Panel 1...
Deploying MakeCode
It took me a bit of time to figure out what was going wrong with my deployed MakeCode Arcade games that were being hosted by GitHub pages here on my website ...
Stick bomb video short
Yesterday in Eng Design we had students make different kinds of stick bombs as a way to demonstrate structures held together by tension. I used a square conf...
programming
Pico-8 vs. MakeCode Arcade
PICO-8 is a fantasy console that provides an environment for creating, sharing, and playing small digital games and programs. PICO-8 deliberately embraces li...
Escort Mission Game
I teach a game creation class at the high school, and one of the platforms we use is Microsoft MakeCode Arcade. I’ve written about it before. Students have...
Why Computer Science Matters Now
Teaching the Future: Why Computer Science Matters Now In my classrooms, in my school, in my town, and beyond, challenges have been pressing in from every di...
Supernatural Classroom Management
The image above and the following explanation were created with ChatGPT for entertainment purposes. The narrative of the images above is as follows: Panel 1...
and Spoilers
I know this post looks political because
was recently in the news,
but I thought I would look into how to use emojis on this blog, and it ...
Deploying MakeCode
It took me a bit of time to figure out what was going wrong with my deployed MakeCode Arcade games that were being hosted by GitHub pages here on my website ...
Silly Shark Game Permalink
I just recently figured out that when I manage my MakeCode Arcade programs with GitHub, they’ll also automatically get hosted here on my website. On a separa...
Sinistar Permalink
Back when I was first learning MakeCode Arcade, I tried to write a mini-clone of the arcade classic Sinistar. At the time I’m making this blog post, it’s lar...
Drow Facts is Back
That’s right, the Drow Facts webapp is back. There’s a story behind this. Here’s the short version. The DrowFacts Project is something I threw together in ba...
joy
Fat Burgers
Yesterday, I tried a new method of cooking burgers after a few years of only making smash burgers. My opinion has been that flattening burgers prioritizes br...
The Best Teacher Appreciation
It’s teacher appreciation week, which means that teachers all over (as seen in places like the Reddit teacher forum) are discussing what their districts do ...
Outer Wilds Hot Shot and YouTube Achievements
Apologies in advance that this post is a bit of a ride. I’m not sure who the audience is, but that’s never stopped me before. Yesterday I uploa...
Kibbeh
My daughter requested this for her birthday, so it motivated me to get the recipe on here for you. Also, you can find this recipe for Kibbeh on my Cooked.w...
Back to the Pens
Sorry, but you’re probably going to get pen posts. These are some pens I dug up out of my collection, cleaned, and resurrected. Recently – at ...
Pancakes of the Past and Future
Click for larger, complete images. Way back when my girls were ...
Stick bomb video short
Yesterday in Eng Design we had students make different kinds of stick bombs as a way to demonstrate structures held together by tension. I used a square conf...
politics
Freedom 250
What does it mean to live in a free society? If “freedom isn’t free,” what price does it demand of us, if any? “Indifference to evil is more insidious th...
Miss JCPOA Yet?
I saw someone post this meme on social media, comparing the Obama-era JCPOA vs the mess Trump has made. You can never trust memes, so I checked up on various...
Lying About Vaccine Support
“We have advocated for measles vaccines all along” Dr. Mehmet Oz I wonder how many people find it possible to believe that. If you read this or heard t...
Have I been unfair to Libertarians?
Maybe On and off I’ve been lamenting aloud (only, really, among friends) about the absence of a Libertarian outcry regarding the current American regime’s a...
The American Experiment
Chasing the Most American Image Ever: A Conversation with ChatGPT What began as a simple prompt quickly escalated into a thunderous journey through layers o...
A Two Americas Poem
I wrote a poem this week, and it was inspired by a poem about Lebanon that was written by Kahlil Gibran. Here is his poem in an Instagram post. I don’t real...
classroom
Pico-8 vs. MakeCode Arcade
PICO-8 is a fantasy console that provides an environment for creating, sharing, and playing small digital games and programs. PICO-8 deliberately embraces li...
Future Ready: AI in the Classroom Permalink
This week I traveled to Westborough to participate in the two-day kickoff of an AI in the Classroom initiative. You can read the state press release about it...
Supernatural Classroom Management
The image above and the following explanation were created with ChatGPT for entertainment purposes. The narrative of the images above is as follows: Panel 1...
Deploying MakeCode
It took me a bit of time to figure out what was going wrong with my deployed MakeCode Arcade games that were being hosted by GitHub pages here on my website ...
Silly Shark Game Permalink
I just recently figured out that when I manage my MakeCode Arcade programs with GitHub, they’ll also automatically get hosted here on my website. On a separa...
Stick bomb video short
Yesterday in Eng Design we had students make different kinds of stick bombs as a way to demonstrate structures held together by tension. I used a square conf...
technology
Educators Meet Agents
I just got back from an AI-focused PLTW professional development session run by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The topic was moving (our underst...
Computing Update - April
I’m just at the end of school’s April break, and from early April to now I’ve been messing around with hardware and software at home, and I recorded none of ...
Future Ready: AI in the Classroom Permalink
This week I traveled to Westborough to participate in the two-day kickoff of an AI in the Classroom initiative. You can read the state press release about it...
Why Computer Science Matters Now
Teaching the Future: Why Computer Science Matters Now In my classrooms, in my school, in my town, and beyond, challenges have been pressing in from every di...
CSTA: A Teacher-Centered Approach to Reimagining CS Professional Development Permalink
I haven’t had time to write about this post, so I’m making this link post. At a busy time in the term, someone brought this article to my attention, and the...
Deploying MakeCode
It took me a bit of time to figure out what was going wrong with my deployed MakeCode Arcade games that were being hosted by GitHub pages here on my website ...
food
Trick For Evaluating Protein Content
The Rule Of Protein Grams Times Ten In a recent conversation with my sister, she mentioned to me that a useful rule of thumb for finding if a food was truly...
Fat Burgers
Yesterday, I tried a new method of cooking burgers after a few years of only making smash burgers. My opinion has been that flattening burgers prioritizes br...
Kibbeh
My daughter requested this for her birthday, so it motivated me to get the recipe on here for you. Also, you can find this recipe for Kibbeh on my Cooked.w...
Pancakes of the Past and Future
Click for larger, complete images. Way back when my girls were ...
Maggie’s Lebanese Family Recipe Book Permalink
Part of how I used to use my old blog was to share and remember recipes. Here’s a document Maggie put together to record some Lebanese recipes she got from m...
Improved Hydration Targeting
Aren’t they beautiful? This weekend I baked sourdough again. I ...
ai
Educators Meet Agents
I just got back from an AI-focused PLTW professional development session run by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The topic was moving (our underst...
Computing Update - April
I’m just at the end of school’s April break, and from early April to now I’ve been messing around with hardware and software at home, and I recorded none of ...
Baroque Boss Battle
I was messing around with Google’s Gemini, and it now has a feature for creating music. One of the options is for chiptunes. So I gave it a desc...
Future Ready: AI in the Classroom Permalink
This week I traveled to Westborough to participate in the two-day kickoff of an AI in the Classroom initiative. You can read the state press release about it...
One Thing About Me and Indigestible Fat
A couple of years back there was a trend in short videos. People were rapping over an instrumental version of a Nicki Minaj song1. The first lyr...
The American Experiment
Chasing the Most American Image Ever: A Conversation with ChatGPT What began as a simple prompt quickly escalated into a thunderous journey through layers o...
entertainment
End of July Journal
This is my version of microblogging right now: a series of random thought-dumps in one single journal. What am I thinking? What have I been up to? Diet I’v...
Someone Wants Their Mummy
Unable to focus myself to the point of writing full, high-quality reviews, but in the interest of doing more journaling about the media I consume, I’m starti...
On Canon
People are noting that in the television show Star City, which is a spinoff of For All Mankind, some details are different between the two. They have re-shot...
Baroque Boss Battle
I was messing around with Google’s Gemini, and it now has a feature for creating music. One of the options is for chiptunes. So I gave it a desc...
Outer Wilds Hot Shot and YouTube Achievements
Apologies in advance that this post is a bit of a ride. I’m not sure who the audience is, but that’s never stopped me before. Yesterday I uploa...
Superman Reminds Us What Heroism Can Look Like
First, Some Thoughts on the Controversy Media companies naturally try to figure out how to increase their audience. If there is a conspiracy to interfere ...
video
Baroque Boss Battle
I was messing around with Google’s Gemini, and it now has a feature for creating music. One of the options is for chiptunes. So I gave it a desc...
Outer Wilds Hot Shot and YouTube Achievements
Apologies in advance that this post is a bit of a ride. I’m not sure who the audience is, but that’s never stopped me before. Yesterday I uploa...
One Thing About Me and Indigestible Fat
A couple of years back there was a trend in short videos. People were rapping over an instrumental version of a Nicki Minaj song1. The first lyr...
First DaVinci Resolve Video
Here’s a video I made yesterday using DaVinci Resolve. There’s an explanation below. Recently, I have moved my work from an older computer to a ...
Stick bomb video short
Yesterday in Eng Design we had students make different kinds of stick bombs as a way to demonstrate structures held together by tension. I used a square conf...
makecode
Pico-8 vs. MakeCode Arcade
PICO-8 is a fantasy console that provides an environment for creating, sharing, and playing small digital games and programs. PICO-8 deliberately embraces li...
Escort Mission Game
I teach a game creation class at the high school, and one of the platforms we use is Microsoft MakeCode Arcade. I’ve written about it before. Students have...
Deploying MakeCode
It took me a bit of time to figure out what was going wrong with my deployed MakeCode Arcade games that were being hosted by GitHub pages here on my website ...
Silly Shark Game Permalink
I just recently figured out that when I manage my MakeCode Arcade programs with GitHub, they’ll also automatically get hosted here on my website. On a separa...
humor
One Thing About Me and Indigestible Fat
A couple of years back there was a trend in short videos. People were rapping over an instrumental version of a Nicki Minaj song1. The first lyr...
The American Experiment
Chasing the Most American Image Ever: A Conversation with ChatGPT What began as a simple prompt quickly escalated into a thunderous journey through layers o...
Supernatural Classroom Management
The image above and the following explanation were created with ChatGPT for entertainment purposes. The narrative of the images above is as follows: Panel 1...
and Spoilers
I know this post looks political because
was recently in the news,
but I thought I would look into how to use emojis on this blog, and it ...
Silly Shark Game Permalink
I just recently figured out that when I manage my MakeCode Arcade programs with GitHub, they’ll also automatically get hosted here on my website. On a separa...
cooking
Fat Burgers
Yesterday, I tried a new method of cooking burgers after a few years of only making smash burgers. My opinion has been that flattening burgers prioritizes br...
Kibbeh
My daughter requested this for her birthday, so it motivated me to get the recipe on here for you. Also, you can find this recipe for Kibbeh on my Cooked.w...
Pancakes of the Past and Future
Click for larger, complete images. Way back when my girls were ...
Maggie’s Lebanese Family Recipe Book Permalink
Part of how I used to use my old blog was to share and remember recipes. Here’s a document Maggie put together to record some Lebanese recipes she got from m...
Improved Hydration Targeting
Aren’t they beautiful? This weekend I baked sourdough again. I ...
artificial intelligence
Educators Meet Agents
I just got back from an AI-focused PLTW professional development session run by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The topic was moving (our underst...
Computing Update - April
I’m just at the end of school’s April break, and from early April to now I’ve been messing around with hardware and software at home, and I recorded none of ...
Baroque Boss Battle
I was messing around with Google’s Gemini, and it now has a feature for creating music. One of the options is for chiptunes. So I gave it a desc...
Have I been unfair to Libertarians?
Maybe On and off I’ve been lamenting aloud (only, really, among friends) about the absence of a Libertarian outcry regarding the current American regime’s a...
Future Ready: AI in the Classroom Permalink
This week I traveled to Westborough to participate in the two-day kickoff of an AI in the Classroom initiative. You can read the state press release about it...
teaching
The Best Teacher Appreciation
It’s teacher appreciation week, which means that teachers all over (as seen in places like the Reddit teacher forum) are discussing what their districts do ...
Why Computer Science Matters Now
Teaching the Future: Why Computer Science Matters Now In my classrooms, in my school, in my town, and beyond, challenges have been pressing in from every di...
CSTA: A Teacher-Centered Approach to Reimagining CS Professional Development Permalink
I haven’t had time to write about this post, so I’m making this link post. At a busy time in the term, someone brought this article to my attention, and the...
Stick bomb video short
Yesterday in Eng Design we had students make different kinds of stick bombs as a way to demonstrate structures held together by tension. I used a square conf...
link
A Test For Living Long Permalink
This story on NPR describes a survey you can take to check up on your preparedness to enter the later phase of your life. “Unlike one more survey or inde...
CSTA: A Teacher-Centered Approach to Reimagining CS Professional Development Permalink
I haven’t had time to write about this post, so I’m making this link post. At a busy time in the term, someone brought this article to my attention, and the...
Maggie’s Lebanese Family Recipe Book Permalink
Part of how I used to use my old blog was to share and remember recipes. Here’s a document Maggie put together to record some Lebanese recipes she got from m...
Drow Facts is Back
That’s right, the Drow Facts webapp is back. There’s a story behind this. Here’s the short version. The DrowFacts Project is something I threw together in ba...
playables
Escort Mission Game
I teach a game creation class at the high school, and one of the platforms we use is Microsoft MakeCode Arcade. I’ve written about it before. Students have...
Silly Shark Game Permalink
I just recently figured out that when I manage my MakeCode Arcade programs with GitHub, they’ll also automatically get hosted here on my website. On a separa...
Sinistar Permalink
Back when I was first learning MakeCode Arcade, I tried to write a mini-clone of the arcade classic Sinistar. At the time I’m making this blog post, it’s lar...
Drow Facts is Back
That’s right, the Drow Facts webapp is back. There’s a story behind this. Here’s the short version. The DrowFacts Project is something I threw together in ba...
video games
Outer Wilds Hot Shot and YouTube Achievements
Apologies in advance that this post is a bit of a ride. I’m not sure who the audience is, but that’s never stopped me before. Yesterday I uploa...
Escort Mission Game
I teach a game creation class at the high school, and one of the platforms we use is Microsoft MakeCode Arcade. I’ve written about it before. Students have...
Silly Shark Game Permalink
I just recently figured out that when I manage my MakeCode Arcade programs with GitHub, they’ll also automatically get hosted here on my website. On a separa...
history
Freedom 250
What does it mean to live in a free society? If “freedom isn’t free,” what price does it demand of us, if any? “Indifference to evil is more insidious th...
Miss JCPOA Yet?
I saw someone post this meme on social media, comparing the Obama-era JCPOA vs the mess Trump has made. You can never trust memes, so I checked up on various...
The American Experiment
Chasing the Most American Image Ever: A Conversation with ChatGPT What began as a simple prompt quickly escalated into a thunderous journey through layers o...
recipes
Kibbeh
My daughter requested this for her birthday, so it motivated me to get the recipe on here for you. Also, you can find this recipe for Kibbeh on my Cooked.w...
Pancakes of the Past and Future
Click for larger, complete images. Way back when my girls were ...
Maggie’s Lebanese Family Recipe Book Permalink
Part of how I used to use my old blog was to share and remember recipes. Here’s a document Maggie put together to record some Lebanese recipes she got from m...
Improved Hydration Targeting
Aren’t they beautiful? This weekend I baked sourdough again. I ...
hope
Superman Reminds Us What Heroism Can Look Like
First, Some Thoughts on the Controversy Media companies naturally try to figure out how to increase their audience. If there is a conspiracy to interfere ...
You Have Your America, and I Have Mine.
You have your America, and I have mine. You have your America of division, of walls seen and unseen, And I have my America of hearts open and burdens sha...
A Two Americas Poem
I wrote a poem this week, and it was inspired by a poem about Lebanon that was written by Kahlil Gibran. Here is his poem in an Instagram post. I don’t real...
resistance
Freedom 250
What does it mean to live in a free society? If “freedom isn’t free,” what price does it demand of us, if any? “Indifference to evil is more insidious th...
You Have Your America, and I Have Mine.
You have your America, and I have mine. You have your America of division, of walls seen and unseen, And I have my America of hearts open and burdens sha...
A Two Americas Poem
I wrote a poem this week, and it was inspired by a poem about Lebanon that was written by Kahlil Gibran. Here is his poem in an Instagram post. I don’t real...
writing
On Canon
People are noting that in the television show Star City, which is a spinoff of For All Mankind, some details are different between the two. They have re-shot...
Back to the Pens
Sorry, but you’re probably going to get pen posts. These are some pens I dug up out of my collection, cleaned, and resurrected. Recently – at ...
A Two Americas Poem
I wrote a poem this week, and it was inspired by a poem about Lebanon that was written by Kahlil Gibran. Here is his poem in an Instagram post. I don’t real...
jekyll
Can I blog from my phone?
This is my first post using a CMS to manage this blog. Since I can blog from my phone this way, expect many more typos. And more posts. At least, that’s the...
Supernatural Classroom Management
The image above and the following explanation were created with ChatGPT for entertainment purposes. The narrative of the images above is as follows: Panel 1...
and Spoilers
I know this post looks political because
was recently in the news,
but I thought I would look into how to use emojis on this blog, and it ...
computer science
Pico-8 vs. MakeCode Arcade
PICO-8 is a fantasy console that provides an environment for creating, sharing, and playing small digital games and programs. PICO-8 deliberately embraces li...
Why Computer Science Matters Now
Teaching the Future: Why Computer Science Matters Now In my classrooms, in my school, in my town, and beyond, challenges have been pressing in from every di...
CSTA: A Teacher-Centered Approach to Reimagining CS Professional Development Permalink
I haven’t had time to write about this post, so I’m making this link post. At a busy time in the term, someone brought this article to my attention, and the...
philosophy
Freedom 250
What does it mean to live in a free society? If “freedom isn’t free,” what price does it demand of us, if any? “Indifference to evil is more insidious th...
On Canon
People are noting that in the television show Star City, which is a spinoff of For All Mankind, some details are different between the two. They have re-shot...
Have I been unfair to Libertarians?
Maybe On and off I’ve been lamenting aloud (only, really, among friends) about the absence of a Libertarian outcry regarding the current American regime’s a...
patriotism
Freedom 250
What does it mean to live in a free society? If “freedom isn’t free,” what price does it demand of us, if any? “Indifference to evil is more insidious th...
A Two Americas Poem
I wrote a poem this week, and it was inspired by a poem about Lebanon that was written by Kahlil Gibran. Here is his poem in an Instagram post. I don’t real...
tools
Back to the Pens
Sorry, but you’re probably going to get pen posts. These are some pens I dug up out of my collection, cleaned, and resurrected. Recently – at ...
First DaVinci Resolve Video
Here’s a video I made yesterday using DaVinci Resolve. There’s an explanation below. Recently, I have moved my work from an older computer to a ...
fandom
On Canon
People are noting that in the television show Star City, which is a spinoff of For All Mankind, some details are different between the two. They have re-shot...
Drow Facts is Back
That’s right, the Drow Facts webapp is back. There’s a story behind this. Here’s the short version. The DrowFacts Project is something I threw together in ba...
baking
Pancakes of the Past and Future
Click for larger, complete images. Way back when my girls were ...
Improved Hydration Targeting
Aren’t they beautiful? This weekend I baked sourdough again. I ...
blogging
Can I blog from my phone?
This is my first post using a CMS to manage this blog. Since I can blog from my phone this way, expect many more typos. And more posts. At least, that’s the...
and Spoilers
I know this post looks political because
was recently in the news,
but I thought I would look into how to use emojis on this blog, and it ...
lebanese
Kibbeh
My daughter requested this for her birthday, so it motivated me to get the recipe on here for you. Also, you can find this recipe for Kibbeh on my Cooked.w...
Maggie’s Lebanese Family Recipe Book Permalink
Part of how I used to use my old blog was to share and remember recipes. Here’s a document Maggie put together to record some Lebanese recipes she got from m...
culture
Superman Reminds Us What Heroism Can Look Like
First, Some Thoughts on the Controversy Media companies naturally try to figure out how to increase their audience. If there is a conspiracy to interfere ...
Maggie’s Lebanese Family Recipe Book Permalink
Part of how I used to use my old blog was to share and remember recipes. Here’s a document Maggie put together to record some Lebanese recipes she got from m...
generative ai
Educators Meet Agents
I just got back from an AI-focused PLTW professional development session run by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The topic was moving (our underst...
The American Experiment
Chasing the Most American Image Ever: A Conversation with ChatGPT What began as a simple prompt quickly escalated into a thunderous journey through layers o...
journaling
End of July Journal
This is my version of microblogging right now: a series of random thought-dumps in one single journal. What am I thinking? What have I been up to? Diet I’v...
Back to the Pens
Sorry, but you’re probably going to get pen posts. These are some pens I dug up out of my collection, cleaned, and resurrected. Recently – at ...
music
Baroque Boss Battle
I was messing around with Google’s Gemini, and it now has a feature for creating music. One of the options is for chiptunes. So I gave it a desc...
One Thing About Me and Indigestible Fat
A couple of years back there was a trend in short videos. People were rapping over an instrumental version of a Nicki Minaj song1. The first lyr...
review
Someone Wants Their Mummy
Unable to focus myself to the point of writing full, high-quality reviews, but in the interest of doing more journaling about the media I consume, I’m starti...
Superman Reminds Us What Heroism Can Look Like
First, Some Thoughts on the Controversy Media companies naturally try to figure out how to increase their audience. If there is a conspiracy to interfere ...
movies
Someone Wants Their Mummy
Unable to focus myself to the point of writing full, high-quality reviews, but in the interest of doing more journaling about the media I consume, I’m starti...
Superman Reminds Us What Heroism Can Look Like
First, Some Thoughts on the Controversy Media companies naturally try to figure out how to increase their audience. If there is a conspiracy to interfere ...
media
On Canon
People are noting that in the television show Star City, which is a spinoff of For All Mankind, some details are different between the two. They have re-shot...
Lying About Vaccine Support
“We have advocated for measles vaccines all along” Dr. Mehmet Oz I wonder how many people find it possible to believe that. If you read this or heard t...
scifi
On Canon
People are noting that in the television show Star City, which is a spinoff of For All Mankind, some details are different between the two. They have re-shot...
Outer Wilds Hot Shot and YouTube Achievements
Apologies in advance that this post is a bit of a ride. I’m not sure who the audience is, but that’s never stopped me before. Yesterday I uploa...
creativity
On Canon
People are noting that in the television show Star City, which is a spinoff of For All Mankind, some details are different between the two. They have re-shot...
Baroque Boss Battle
I was messing around with Google’s Gemini, and it now has a feature for creating music. One of the options is for chiptunes. So I gave it a desc...
horror
End of July Journal
This is my version of microblogging right now: a series of random thought-dumps in one single journal. What am I thinking? What have I been up to? Diet I’v...
Someone Wants Their Mummy
Unable to focus myself to the point of writing full, high-quality reviews, but in the interest of doing more journaling about the media I consume, I’m starti...
diet
Trick For Evaluating Protein Content
The Rule Of Protein Grams Times Ten In a recent conversation with my sister, she mentioned to me that a useful rule of thumb for finding if a food was truly...
End of July Journal
This is my version of microblogging right now: a series of random thought-dumps in one single journal. What am I thinking? What have I been up to? Diet I’v...
health
Trick For Evaluating Protein Content
The Rule Of Protein Grams Times Ten In a recent conversation with my sister, she mentioned to me that a useful rule of thumb for finding if a food was truly...
End of July Journal
This is my version of microblogging right now: a series of random thought-dumps in one single journal. What am I thinking? What have I been up to? Diet I’v...
journal
I’ve Had Some Terrible Summers
…And this isn’t one of them You wouldn’t think summer is a stressful time for a teacher, and I’m not looking for anyone to feel sorry for me for anything. B...
Nuptials
My daughter got married today. Well, it’s yesterday now. A small crowd of her’s and her husband’s close family were there, in a field, in a state park, under...
javascript
Drow Facts is Back
That’s right, the Drow Facts webapp is back. There’s a story behind this. Here’s the short version. The DrowFacts Project is something I threw together in ba...
downloadables
Maggie’s Lebanese Family Recipe Book Permalink
Part of how I used to use my old blog was to share and remember recipes. Here’s a document Maggie put together to record some Lebanese recipes she got from m...
pens
Back to the Pens
Sorry, but you’re probably going to get pen posts. These are some pens I dug up out of my collection, cleaned, and resurrected. Recently – at ...
moods
Owl See You Later
I have been purposefully ignoring Duo for the last couple of days. While I understand that the point of Duolingo streaks is to encourage you to continue st...
libertarians
Have I been unfair to Libertarians?
Maybe On and off I’ve been lamenting aloud (only, really, among friends) about the absence of a Libertarian outcry regarding the current American regime’s a...
airesearch
Have I been unfair to Libertarians?
Maybe On and off I’ve been lamenting aloud (only, really, among friends) about the absence of a Libertarian outcry regarding the current American regime’s a...
vaccines
Lying About Vaccine Support
“We have advocated for measles vaccines all along” Dr. Mehmet Oz I wonder how many people find it possible to believe that. If you read this or heard t...
science-denial
Lying About Vaccine Support
“We have advocated for measles vaccines all along” Dr. Mehmet Oz I wonder how many people find it possible to believe that. If you read this or heard t...
exhibits
Lying About Vaccine Support
“We have advocated for measles vaccines all along” Dr. Mehmet Oz I wonder how many people find it possible to believe that. If you read this or heard t...
news
Lying About Vaccine Support
“We have advocated for measles vaccines all along” Dr. Mehmet Oz I wonder how many people find it possible to believe that. If you read this or heard t...
policy
Miss JCPOA Yet?
I saw someone post this meme on social media, comparing the Obama-era JCPOA vs the mess Trump has made. You can never trust memes, so I checked up on various...
antiwar
Miss JCPOA Yet?
I saw someone post this meme on social media, comparing the Obama-era JCPOA vs the mess Trump has made. You can never trust memes, so I checked up on various...
linux
Computing Update - April
I’m just at the end of school’s April break, and from early April to now I’ve been messing around with hardware and software at home, and I recorded none of ...
computing
Computing Update - April
I’m just at the end of school’s April break, and from early April to now I’ve been messing around with hardware and software at home, and I recorded none of ...
update
Computing Update - April
I’m just at the end of school’s April break, and from early April to now I’ve been messing around with hardware and software at home, and I recorded none of ...
post formats
A Test For Living Long Permalink
This story on NPR describes a survey you can take to check up on your preparedness to enter the later phase of your life. “Unlike one more survey or inde...
maintenance
Can I blog from my phone?
This is my first post using a CMS to manage this blog. Since I can blog from my phone this way, expect many more typos. And more posts. At least, that’s the...
civil rights
Freedom 250
What does it mean to live in a free society? If “freedom isn’t free,” what price does it demand of us, if any? “Indifference to evil is more insidious th...
miniview
Someone Wants Their Mummy
Unable to focus myself to the point of writing full, high-quality reviews, but in the interest of doing more journaling about the media I consume, I’m starti...
random
End of July Journal
This is my version of microblogging right now: a series of random thought-dumps in one single journal. What am I thinking? What have I been up to? Diet I’v...
life
Nuptials
My daughter got married today. Well, it’s yesterday now. A small crowd of her’s and her husband’s close family were there, in a field, in a state park, under...