Archive for November, 2007



Clean Your Heaters

My psychic powers are a bit drained tonight, so I’m not able to tell where you are reading this from, but heaters are starting to become necessary where I am. I noticed that the main heater in my apartment turns on if I put it anywhere past 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celcius). […]

More MySpace Spam

First off, let me say that if it really was MySpace, there would be no spam. I received a MySpace newsletter in my Gmail inbox today. The subject had been altered by SpamAssassin, which suspected the newsletter was spam, just as a previous one was. I thought, “That’s strange. I thought […]

Death By Rubric

A rubric is designed to give some sort of quantifiable assessment, overshadowed with a sense of fairness. Though rubrics can lead to a very mechanical, disconnected approach to reviewing assignments, they do have a place in the education system. Unfortunately, many educators do not really think about how a given rubric works.

Matt Damon Looks Good?

Apparently, Matt Damon was named the sexiest man alive. I never really thought I was the best looking guy out there, but now I am thinking I am a close second or third. It’s pretty standard practice for magazines to put a fair bit of work into touching up a photo that goes […]

Movie: Feline Siblings

I had to create a video for my Instructional Technology course. I had planned on taking a good hour+ of footage of my dad’s gokart race, so I would have a lot of video to play around with for a 3-5 minute video. Unfortunately, he had some engine problems, so that didn’t happen. […]