Mon 14 Jan 2008
How To Influence Without Authority
Central Solar Power
How to Get More Hits on a Website
How to Make Pozole
How to Design and Develop a Hybrid Course
Nanotechnology
Microprocessors
Community Colleges
Programmable Logic Controllers
How to Buy a House
The Military-Industrial Complex
How to Frame a Video Shot
How to Host a Poetry Reading
How to Get 75 Kids to Be Quiet
How to Storyboard
How Superbowl Commercials Get Made
How to Install a Garbage Disposal
Machining
Fake Grass
Pool Care
What an Iron-Deficient Tree Looks Like
When to Plant Tomatoes
How to Select Poetry Submissions
Facebook
How the Chicago World Fair Got Built
Xeriscaping
How to Stretch out My Neck
January 14th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
“me, me, me”
“I, I, I”
Well, I’m glad you’re doing so well, and getting so smart. But the rest of us are drying up out here without your regular blogging. Thanks for taunting us with your blessed independence.
January 14th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
So, what’s your secret with the 75 kids? Screaming at them I think would lead me to the incongruous title, I think, of Bitchy Worship Leader. But, calmly waiting for respect to develop doesn’t work either. Providing something new and interesting works once, but continually creating something new and interesting has proven to be a larger challenge than I can handle. What’s your trick?
January 15th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Can you tell me how to tell a 50 year-old man that he chews with his mouth open? Right now, I just put on headphones and listen to pandora.com at first sign of his feeding.
January 15th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Did you read “The Devil in White City?” Or were you learning about the Chicago World’s Fair some other way?
January 16th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Yeah! I also was intrigued most by the ‘75 quiet kids’ and ‘Chicago World’s Fair.’ Way to (once again!) leave us begging for more.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Mike- I am very sorry indeed to hear of your drying up. May you be like a chia pet and become luxuriant once again.
Karen- Dr. G says that good deterrence methods for crime require consequences that are swift and certain. The same seems to apply to small children. Will get a chance to fine-tune my theories in February, when I’m back on duty in Superchurch. Works best when the people not up front act as The Enforcers.
Steve- Have you tried silent mimicry?
Sarah– yes! could have done without the serial killer but loved the world fair part.
Kate– I like your technique of getting me to write more by complimenting me.
January 17th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
You might also consider carrot methods with children, instead of just sticks.
January 22nd, 2008 at 3:55 pm
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