I found today that someone had started a site called lzhsnews.com which will have news of Lake Zurich High School (which is where I work). One of the news stories is that I have a blog. I was very flattered by the comments the author made about my blog and it made me glad that I have made a more concerted effort to occasionally update it. Here is the story:
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Today’s good thing was seeing that when you search Google for presidential swing set, my blog comes up first. I never thought I would see the day that my blog would be #1 on Google for any search, but there ya go.
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Tonight I was inspired to reminisce about my favorite American Idol contestant of all time, Clay Aiken. Here is a playlist (I love YouTube!)
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I have started using Selective Twitter Status for Facebook. This allows me to control which tweets I send that end up as my Facebook status y adding a #fb to the end of the tweet. I think this will really help me use Twitter more effectively. One of the nice parts of Twitter is the sharing links and other pieces of information that I wouldn’t necesarily want to make a status update on Facebook. This application is very helpful and is a good thing.
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Today’s good thing was watching a new TV show that my students suggested to me, Time Warp. The basic premise of this show is that these two guys take high speed (which means high frame rate so you can watch it back in slow motion) video of various science type events. While some times slow motion is overdone, according to Entertainment Weekly online, this may be the only acceptable use of slow mo. The episode I watch tonight involved watching various objects being blended including seven butane lighters (which did eventually combust), juggling chainsaws, and a old bar trick with a beer bottle which really a great example of the power of vacuums. (Not the cleaning kind, but the lack of anything.)
The one criticism my students had, I would agree, is that sometimes they reshow the slow motion clips too many times. After a while you start to feel like we get the point and they are just dragging it out.
Here is a clip of a famous drummer Mike Mangini on Time Warp with a high speed drum solo. This guy can drum at 20.1 beat/second. PER SECOND! Holy crap!
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Today included two great moments.
First, I bowled a 242 which is my new high game. This included one open, so there is still room for improvement.
Second, at the bowling alley, my student Liz gave Isaac the biggest non-mylar balloon I have ever seen and he was thouroughly amused.
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I was told today by one of my students that another student who I only had one night described me the following way, “he’s loud guy with a beard whose color doesn’t match his and he’s awkward, but in a cute way.” This was very amusing.
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