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The Black Swan

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** The Black Swan **
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[The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb]
-- The perfect gift for an economics professor.  Or a MBA student in a suit and tie.

[Date: Nov 11, 2008] 

Voting

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** Voting **
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--  Voting is a pretense the bemused  super-rich go through to perpetrate the belief that the poor also have a chance at governance.

[Date: Oct 25, 2008]         

Time Travel

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** Time Travel **
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-- State of time travel for human beings (c. 2008): adjusting Daylight Savings Time twice a year.

[Date: Oct 26, 2008]

Talking to Children

 

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** Talking to Children **
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-- So, Olivia, are you a boy or a girl?
-- Auntie, I am exactly like you.  So I am a girl, I guess!

[Date: Nov 16, 2008]          

The Many Roads That Lead to Destitution in Photography

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** The Many Roads That Lead to Destitution in Photography  **
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-- Destitute photographer
-- Reading Strobist.com
-- Learning about filters
-- Making a lens collection
-- Changing brands (e.g., Nikon <--> Canon)
-- Buying tripods
-- Upgrading to new Photoshop
-- Software plugins

[Date: Oct 24, 2008]    

Telling the Time

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** Telling the Time **
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--  Ah! Tea o'clock already!

[Date: Oct 20, 2008]   

The Double-Rainbow

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** The Double-Rainbow **
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--  Wow! Look!! A double-rainbow!
--  That day God was ecstatic in Heaven.  Nobody had figured out he had ditched Photoshop for Gimp.

[Date: Sep 26, 2008] 

The Two Roads to Happiness

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** The Two Roads to Happiness **
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-- More-makes-me-happy road
-- Less-makes-me-happy road  

[Date: Sep 7, 2008]      

How Teachers Could Use Twitter

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** How Teachers Could Use Twitter **
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-- Class, I'm asking you to submit this mini-essay in four tweets max.

[Date: Sep 29, 2008]