let’s make biscuits!

This has been a pretty strange day. I slept far later than I intended to—about 10:30. (Those of you who know me in real life know that 8:00 am is sleeping in for me, so 10:30 is like coming out of a coma.) Yesterday was a long day—about fourteen hours between the two jobs—and while …read more…

Published on: 21 January 2012 by Ken

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aliens keep stealing my pencils

I always take along a bunch of sharpened pencils when I substitute teach. I don’t want a kid sitting there doing nothing because they don’t have something to write with, and you would be surprised how many teachers don’t provide any sort of writing implement, and how many don’t have a functioning pencil sharpener in …read more…

Published on: 21 January 2012 by Ken

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Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Published on 21 January 2012 at 12:03 pm

In modern society the opposite of courage is not cowardice; it is conformity.

Rollo May

Published on 19 January 2012 at 6:00 am

Now we rise
And we are everywhere

Nick Drake

Published on 19 January 2012 at 12:22 am

Help Stop SOPA and PIPA from ending the Internet as we know it

I am so incredibly busy right now, mostly doing stuff I’d rather not be doing*, but I’m going to take a moment to stop all that and urge you to read this: WordPress ”º Help Stop SOPA/PIPAhttp://wordpress.org/news/2012/01/help-stop-sopa-pipa/You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant …read more…

Published on: 17 January 2012 by Ken

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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Published on 15 January 2012 at 3:00 pm

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

Anton Chekhov

Published on 27 December 2011 at 11:30 pm

Revolution begins with a change in consciousness.

Darius James

Published on 25 December 2011 at 12:00 pm

How Not to Get Help From a Help Forum

This post is a parody of my “How to Get Help from a Help Forum” post. Since some people find themselves offended by it, I thought I would create a special set of rules and guidelines just for them. If you don’t understand what parody is, please don’t read this post. You’ll just get your …read more…

Published on: 24 December 2011 by Ken

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Silent Noise Project #005

Welcome to Episode #5 of the Silent Noise Project. It’s snowing in here. How cheesy is that? [Update as of 20 January 2012: No, it isn’t snowing any more. It was cheesy. And it interfered.] This was originally going to be the “Quantum Mechanics and Red Leicester” episode, in honor of Monty Python’s cheese shop …read more…

Published on: 24 December 2011 by Ken

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how to annoy the easily annoyed…

As a lot of you know, I work as a moderator at the Graphene forum. Graphene is easily the most customizable theme for WordPress, which is the software I use to run all my blogs. On any given week, I spend between 10 and 30 hours helping folks out there, all in my spare time, …read more…

Published on: 20 December 2011 by Ken

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Who knows what causes the opening or closing of the door?

Wang Wei, T’ang dynasty poet

Published on 13 December 2011 at 3:00 pm