December 2010
More quotes for Quotes to Make You Think collected over the past year.
“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.” — Earl Shoaf
”I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly.” — Captain Jack Sparrow
”Counting time is not so important as making...
Here is the progress made on my 2010 New Year’s Resolutions.
Read 12,000 pages. At last count, I was on track to succeed with this one.
Learn to cook 20 new dishes. FAILED. Made only 10.
Participate in Project 365. FAILED. I made it to February before I gave up on it.
Have fun now not later. SUCCESS. Went to more events people invited me to attend than the previous four or five years...
I recently completed my first resolution for the year 2009: Read 12,000 pages. pp
Check the Reading page for the master list.
Titles in bold are the ones I recommend. (They also are probably the ones I quote the most.)
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space – Carl Sagan – 368 pp (368 total)
Deal with Your Debt: The Right Way to Manage Your Bills and Pay Off What You Owe -Liz...
“Know that you are where you are, not by chance, but by the design of your...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Baha’i Writings)
“Know that you are where you are, not by chance, but by the design of your...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Baha’i Writings)
“There’s a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been...”
– Pema Chodron (via psychotherapy)
“There’s a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been...”
– Pema Chodron (via psychotherapy)
facingmyownreality:
facingmyownreality:
“To be a Bahá’í simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Baha’i Writings)
“To be a Bahá’í simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Baha’i Writings)
Blackboard vs. Social Media?
crummertech:
Blackboard seems to be straining under the weight of its own bloat. Its omnivorous business strategy and its tin ear regarding educational technology trends is leading institutions across the country to reassess its usefulness vis-a-vis the tremendous cost.
What do you think?
I am reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values where there is an...
Why Shanghai schooled the US: Americans think they’re too smart to work hard - Yahoo! News
“There’s something to that. Asian students do work harder, by every measure we can find. But there’s more to it than that. Put simply, Asians believe that hard work is the prime determinant of their success. By contrast, Americans and other Westerners typically ascribe academic performance to...
A security guy at a campus wanted our web server log file in the CSV format. The original file has lines which look something like:
machine.usg.edu: webserver.log13646,2010-11-30 11:08:32 0.0010 999.999.999.999 b7tPM1hTgGYMn90bLTM1 200 GET /webct/urw/lc987189066271.tp1333853785371/blank.html - 262 “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4...
WordPress has neat new functionality to notify about and easily update templates. Apparently some of mine are so old they can no longer be updated? The result of trying was not removing the “.maintenance” file resulting an inaccessible blog. Easy enough to remove it once I looked up the problem. However, annoying that I was not given an error notice or anything useful. Related posts No related...
This mention reminded me of a study where men experienced difficulties remembering the news when the speaker was a beautiful woman.
Beautiful women should take up chess. Anna Dreber, Christer Gerdes and Patrik Gransmark wrote a Stockholm University working paper in which they found that male chess players pursue riskier strategies when they’re facing attractive female opponents, even though the...
What are the questions you would bring up to Ray? Related posts No related posts.
YouTube - RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time
Could it be possible well done online classes which give students control of what and how they learn could reach the students who drop out?
25 Ways to Reduce the Cost of College: #16: Move More Classes Online
”If higher education is able to overcome the implementation problem that Hampson attributes to an outdated organizational and business model, then online education has the potential to confer a number of benefits over traditional face-to-face education. These benefits fall into three main categories: cost reduction, access...
“Zones of Domination” →
In 2000, science fiction author Neal Stephenson gave an inspiring talk at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) conference. He entitled it “Zones of Domination.” In the talk, he told the story…
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Found a Backupify blog on controlling employee access to social media odd. Preventing employees from discussing work on social media may help, but really you need to operate like the Manhattan Project. Sequester them in a town you build in the middle of nowhere, go through all of their correspondence paper or electronic, and control who they can physically see. People are going to talk about what...
