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"That sounds pretty cool. I'm not really looking for new projects right now because I want to spend my time on the ones I've got going already, but if you want, I can send you a li…

My experience as both a student and a teacher (in several different schools) suggests that a decent number of teachers (less than half, but more than a few) become teachers mostly …

I had a similar experience, and am curious why you think you had the experience you did? I grew up an unabashed geek in the midwest, and felt no more social isolation than anyone e…

This seems like it could be really useful when paired with "The Gutenberg Method" ( http://entropysite.oxy.edu/morrison.html ), which basically asks students to do the assigned rea…

Congrats on the success of all this! Breaking even in 3 months takes some doing. I noticed some places where I think I could clean up and improve the writing. Do you mind if I take…

It can be a good teaching method or a bad one, depending on how it's used. Personally, I enjoy having students come up to the whiteboard. But when we do so, I present it as the stu…

I'm a few chapter's into Hartl's book now. I really appreciate how it explains most things on a few different levels, i.e. both the concrete and theoretical workings of a piece of …

"Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn (as well as "My Ishmael") changed how I view the world and how I characterize contemporary issues. The Takers/Leavers dichotomy, while a tad simplistic, w…

One more thing: Challenging/important tasks. Some of this gets filed under "Growth Prospects", and some of it gets filed under "Autonomy". If your employees have challenging and/or…

Assuming he makes $50 every day for a calendar year, we're talking a little ways north of $18k/yr, before taxes. Not the biggest amount in the world, but certainly pretty substanti…

I watched that match back in high school (his streak corresponded with my own academic bowl team's season), and "What is a hoe?" was my response, too. I'd never heard that semantic…

My writing group uses Crocodoc when we exchange drafts and provide feedback. Keeping all of the annotations in one place means that I don't have to worry about having 4 different c…

I love Preview, but have found that when I use the annotation feature and send it to others who use other PDF viewers (FoxIt, Acrobat Reader, et al) that the annotations don't alwa…

If you double click a few times on the game screen, that usually straightens it out.

I mean the whole thing. The advice given to Nick by his father (in his younger and more vulnerable years), the statements he makes about how others seem to see him as a confidante,…

Thanks for posting this. I got called into work and missed today's Jeopardy! episode, so seeing this link was definitely a relief.

I've read "Gatsby" over 25 times in the last 5 years, and have taught it twice. It's my favourite piece of literature by far, and would be my nominee for "Most Beautifully Written …

If you're okay with waiting a few hours/days, The Pirate Bay seems to have a good selection of torrents of recent Jeopardy! episodes, though I've not yet tried it. You'll also be a…

Human contestants are also able to see the question typed out (much like it's displayed on the television), so people are able to do this as well. I'm usually able to read any give…

My college didn't have a college bowl team, but competing on high school teams and being responsible for more than a few correct two or three word answers, I can vouch for this. It…

From their website: "messiahStudio can be used as a complete stand-alone animation and rendering package, or as a powerful addition to Modo, Maya, 3DMAX, SoftImage XSI, LightWave, …

A google search for reviews doesn't turn up much, so you're probably not alone in saying "I've never heard of this". Said search turns up quite a few rapidshare/torrenting links, b…

If there's a reasonably reputable university nearby, one thing to see is if you can work part-time and go to school part-time (alternatively: see if you can telecommute). Your empl…

In this case, this seems less about "educating B students" than it is finding multiple venues in which students can be successful. The student who does not get A's still has quite …

Had I not been a writing teacher when I read this book, I would not have appreciated it as much as I did. In particular, the "Itty-bitty rules for itty-bitty people" line (while he…