Pooh was walking round and round in a circle, thinking of something else, and when Piglet called to him, he just went on walking. “Hallo!” said Piglet, “what are you doing?” “Hunting,” said Pooh. “Hunting what?” “Tracking something,” said Winnie-the-Pooh very mysteriously. “Tracking what?” said Piglet, coming closer. “That’s just what I ask myself. I …
Monthly Archive: March 2007
Mar
10
das wiked. buh yo! u wanna get tada nxt levl? wateva.
Now, I know what I said, and I meant every word of it. But then, I got this comment to a post, “das wiked. som kid in ma clas did dat. evry1 freaked, even da teacha!it waz jokes, yo.lol. Buh… she went 2 ur web, got da secret n printed it n gave it 2 …
Mar
06
Secrets of a Flash in the Pan
Greg, an alert reader from–well, I’m not sure where he’s from–left this comment on my About page yesterday: So, help me out here. Your blog is getting major hits, top five on WordPress, and while I respect your writing, and it is interesting at some level–to what do you attribute so much traffic? Do you …
Mar
05
Global Warming: A Free Interdisciplinary Curriculum
The picture above is of my family (minus me, I’m taking the picture . . .duh) and Will Steger. It was taken at this year’s St. Paul Winter Carnival in January. The temperature that day was about 5 degrees and the wind was really kicking out of the north, so the wind chill was actually …
Mar
04
You won’t find any snarky, grammar/spelling Nazis here.
Yes, yes . . .there are certain conventions we must all agree upon. This is school after all. This is academic or persuasive or technical or professional or creative or expository or whatever the heck kind of writing we are working on here. This is not your cell phone. I am not your IM buddy …
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