July 2012
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Those gymnasts are so good, they ALL just need a gold medal EVERY TIME. You’re welcome.
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Grade 5/6 Literacy Lesson Turns Into World History...
Well, it started off as a reading comprehension lesson with a focus on ‘cause and effect’. So we spoke about cause and effect in the universe. And then I asked if they knew anything about a cause creating a HUGE effect. So we started talking about World War I. And World War II. And then terrorism and world politics and the history of war.
The kids were super-engaged, super-interested,...
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Movie theatres are supposed to be places where we lose ourselves. There’s real evil in the world and some movies examine evil and violence as a form of reflection. When I saw The Dark Knight Rises the other day, I had blood and (natural) chemicals racing around my body; this is the power of movies. Terrible that some nutjob could unleash his madness on people who were out for a couple of...
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Things I Actually Ended Up Doing on my Long...
Last December I posted a list of things I wanted to do when I got my first long service leave. This has now come to pass, and here is what I actually did. I’ve crossed out the things that did not happen; and the things that happened are in bold.
Be a school Dad and drop off the kids, pick them up and be a parent helper in the mornings. Just couldn’t be a parent helper; I found I...
The history and art of the logo
bitshare:
A logo should define an entity, and it should encapsulate everything you do in one singular image. With that mantra in mind, creating a successful, simple yet illustrative logo can be a difficult project to undertake.
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Reading Harry Potter 1: Whenever Snape speaks, I hear Alan Rickman.
What a performance.
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“The fourth movement is possibly the most terrifying music Shostakovich ever...”
– Mark Wigglesworth’s notes on the fourth movement of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8.
In this music I hear/see:
A dim radiance through intergalactic space;
Microscopic bugs burrowing deep in the soil;
A slow rotation;
Strange comfort.
“I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the...”
– Poet Vita Sackville-West’s 1927 love letter to Virginia Woolf
Beautiful use of words and punctuation (particularly colon and semi-colon). Such a pleasure to read.
What if-
cardboardspoon:
They had a Dr. Who episode where the Doctor goes to Antarctica and is a part of an expedition? Like, he takes the Tardis onto the Endurance and tries to save the ship from being crushed -not by pack ice, but by some kind of alien thing! Or or or he goes to one of Scott’s expeditions and helps fend off some sort of monster like the one in The Empire Strikes Back! I would seriously...
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