Luke's giving me a hard time about not blogging my essential ingredient list (which I'll do another time), so here's a round-about way to get to my list.  One of the things I enjoy most about cooking is making sauces.  Last night I made a mushroom gravy to go with…

I was interested to read Mark Guzdial's discussion of spatial ability as a potential predictor for ability in math and computing.  I've often pondered this with regard to my own teaching of computing, as well as for myself; however, my thoughts run the opposite way, as I am someone with…

Tonight, after I got the girls off to bed, I was reading some things online.  At one point I stumbled upon an interesting twitter feed, not least because the author was quoting Derrida: "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." I've…

Just got home and the girls yell with delight, "we got mail!"  Their Click magazine for kids arrived, with a very timely cover.  I'd love to be at the editors meeting next month!…

Tonight Luke is pausing to enjoy one of his favourite things, a long sentence that is its own kind of narrative.  I can appreciate what he enjoys about them, but I'm as different as you can get in this regard.  I like short sentences.  Not 'writing that only uses short…

These two little girls of ours stop me dead in my tracks just about every day.  Tonight, as we went for a walk after dinner, and they pleaded with me to give them "challenges," to see if they could run faster than me, my youngest turned to me…

"Dad, can your computer guess 'heads' or 'tails' when I flip this coin?" "Sure, give me a second" #!/bin/sh voice=Zarvox coin=$RANDOM let "coin %= 2" if [ "$coin" -eq 0 ] then say -v $voice heads else say -v $voice tails fi I haven't seen my…

Yesterday was the last day for another group of students in our Seneca Mozilla courses, and today I'm marking all this awesome work (and blogging about it in order find productive outlets for my procrastination!).  Surman came up for the afternoon to watch final presentations, along with some folks from…

Yeah, I still have that nightmare too. But it doesn't change that your stuff is due Friday :)…

I don't use an rss aggregator to read all the blogs I follow (some of them are planets, so clearly I do a bit...).  I don't like them for a number of reasons, and here's one more: Me - "Did you see that video that I posted yesterday?"…