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The Reward

After a two hour into the wind and dodge the speedboats kayak excursion on Apache Lake… this is good. Damn good. The desert heat here is just starting to slowly simmer, just a tease of the oven baked temps you will see here in a few weeks. But it’s a somewhat cool breeze blowing at […]

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50 Ways Over Wooster

Jon Breitenbucher invited me back again to do a remote (via Skype) presentation on 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story for the week-long Instructional Technology Faculty Fellows program he and his crew run at the College of Wooster (by the way, they are rocking with wordpress multiuser there). When I did this last […]

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Why I’ll Never Be a Business Person

Some colleagues out there are group reading the hip all the cool kids hot edu WTF book, Anya Kamenetz’s DIY U Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education . I’m game since a bunch of my buddies have mentions in there. However, in my Amazon shopping, I am stumped about the pricing of […]

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Have a Blast on Your Birthday

WikiMedia Commons photo posted by Donald Swanson I caught the NPR story on the radio this morning that today was the 30th year since the major volcanic eruption at Mount St. Helens (what do you buy a volcano on its birthday, and technically, no not really its birthday). What was I doing May 18, 1980? […]

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It’s a Phone and an Audio Recorder

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I’ve had a string of audio recorder devices over the years- one of the first portable MP3 recorders by iRiver, another white plastic one I already forgot the name, a great workhorse in an Edirol R-09. I don’t think I need hardware anymore, though, for basic interviews and […]

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Broken Solar Dreams

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Swiss Bones Arizona is a state bombarded by a free source of untapped energy. Our electric companies have been offering incentives in the forms of rebates and tax credits. it’s not out of the goodness of their heart or their long term vision on the future of energy- it […]

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Bitten By a Card Shark

modified from cc licensed flickr photo shared by pfala Sneaky. Damn sneaky. I got a nice $100 Visa gift card for my birthday last month.( I am not looking you in the mouth, Gift Horse). These look like credit card numbers, have numbers like credit cards. But there is is something tricky there- it’s nearly […]

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Road Wore-ier

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Punchup I got to Austin airport ridiculously early this morning mainly because all I want to do is to get home, which I have not seen since April 28. I hope I remember where it is, much less, where my car is at the Phoenix airport (much less if I remember […]