Category Archives: Fun Stuff

A Rerun Already? (Meme Edition)


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 [...]

An English Lesson for the TV Generation


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 [...]

Thoughts on Facebook?


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 3 months [...]

Hallowiener


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:

Mai Songz: Let Me Show U Them


So Jeff listed and explained his Top Ten songs of the moment and encouraged his readership to do the same. I’m taking him up on it here. I’ve also included links to eMusic where applicable (check them out – highly worthwhile, DRM-free indie-label music of all genres). Here they are, in no particular order: 1. [...]