Bone LaceStories in progress...books, science fiction, home, developing cultural issues, teaching.(Untitled)- February 22, 2005 Brain study points to 'sixth sense'. Following the Asian tsunami, scientists struggled to explain reports that primitive aboriginal tribesmen had somehow sensed the impending danger in time to join wild animals in a life-saving flight to higher ground. A new theory suggests that the anterior cingulate cortex, described by some scientists as part of the brain's "oops" center, may actually function as an early warning system -- one that works at a subconscious level to help us recognize and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110175/2005/02/21.html#a783 (Untitled)- February 22, 2005 It's gotten to the point where I want to teach. I really do. But I don't want to have to make a living at it. So I work at a corporate job (a good one, that I like, and in a good workgroup), but I want to teach again when the lack of money doesn't mean anything, anything at all. Perhaps when I retire. Please, God, let me live long enough to do that.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110175/2005/02/21.html#a782 (Untitled)- February 22, 2005 Games and eLearning Games and Learning: "Three University of Wisconsin-Madison professors, among the top researchers in learning through game-playing, explained the advantages of games over traditional teaching tools..."Two things are currently hampering games in learning - lack of tools, lack of experience for learning designers. Games have much potential, but the startup is high in time and expertise requirements. elearnspaced Learning.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110175/2005/02/21.html#a781 (Untitled)- February 22, 2005 Sci-Fi Eye for the Geek Guy. Quick, think of your favorite sci-fi television or movie franchise or writer (i.e. Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, Dune, HHG2TG, Asimov, Babylon 5, Blade Runner, Lexx, BattleStar Galactica, Flash Gordon, Arthur C. Clarke, William Gibson, Philip Jose Farmer, or Planet of the Apes, Buckaroo Banzai, The Matrix.) Don't think about it too much. I just want you to remember the first one that popped into your mind. Ok, got it Great. Read on to see if I peg your personality..http://radio.weblogs.com/0110175/2005/02/21.html#a780 (Untitled)- February 22, 2005 Food and Drink Notes. A friend gave me a bottle of the 2002 Morambro Creek Padthaway Shiraz on Boxing Day. I opened it for Valentine's: lovely, fruity, and chocolately. Around $14bottle. Get more of this. Rio Adobe on DeAnza at Prospect. Better than the 'upscale' carry-out places like Chipolte and Baja Fresh. Yesterday they had green chile pork stew. Coffee Society opened a store in the new Cupertino library on Torre. They have free WiFi. The new location's smaller than the main branch,...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110175/2005/02/21.html#a779 (Untitled)- February 16, 2005 Contracting, clarity, and requirements. I've certainly been guilty of this kind of approach at multiple points throughout my career. The best techniques I've encountered for dealing with these challenges are the "contracting" conversations that Peter Block advocates so strongly in his excellent Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used. Regardless of which side of the table you are on, you had better become more adept at Block's contracting or you will be building or paying...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110175/2005/02/16.html#a778 (Untitled)- February 16, 2005 I Corrupted My Grandparents. I have the coolest grandparents in the world. Last time I visited I told them that whenever they read a fortune cookie fortune they need to add "in bed" after the fortune. (Try it - It's Hilarious) Time goes on and I receive this email from my grandmother:We were sitting at breakfast last Sunday after church with 2 other couples and Pop picked up a 4 page flier, it had horoscopes in it and he started to read them and I hate them and he knows it but is trying to be..http://radio.weblogs.com/0110175/2005/02/16.html#a777 (Untitled)- February 9, 2005 Celebrating the Body Beautiful. The human body is intriguing in all its forms. A photo exhibit features subjects both nude and clothed, giving us a complex picture of who we are as a species and as sexual beings. Commentary by Regina Lynn. Wired Newshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0110175/2005/02/08.html#a776 (Untitled)- February 9, 2005 Now I'm really worried...and I thought public education was bad before (even though I insist on sending my children there to meet others unlike themselves.) Does the First Amendment go 'too far'. The First Amendment grants too many freedoms, according to more than a third of US high school children. This is the disturbing conclusion of a new report by the Knight Foundation. kuro5hin.orghttp://radio.weblogs.com/0110175/2005/02/08.html#a775 (Untitled)- February 9, 2005 Puijilittatuq, or just too many seals for one blogger to blog. The Inukitut have a word for it: "puijilittatuq." Translation: "He does not know which way to turn because of the many seals he has seen come to the ice surface." That's a good description (from this month's issue of Ansible, the scifi newsletter from David Langford) of the blog-blockage typically caused by a fresh copy of Ansible. Thank goodness, at least, that I'm not in Paris! Bloggers there will face the nightly temptation of..http://radio.weblogs.com/0110175/2005/02/08.html#a774 |