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Archive for November, 2008

Brain chart  

The kids have a behavior chart in their classrooms and each of them has a clip with their name on it. They “clip up” for good behavior and “clip down” when they get into trouble…
Me: So, how was school today? Did you clip up?
Son: No, I clipped down… But! But, Dad! Clipping down is good [...]

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Learning the guitar, a progress report  

I started playing late-August of this year and I try to practice a little every day. I still love playing it. It’s a very relaxing hobby. This is a little bit of I’m Looking Through You by The Beatles.

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A new way to wake up the kids  

I need to enunciate more clearly or Jott is going to get me in trouble with the wife… I said “Opera,” not “Barbara.”

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In the age of Google, who cares about the BBB?  

I just got off the phone with the Better Business Bureau. They called to ask if I wanted to become a member. I thought about it for a second and couldn’t think of a single reason I would want to. The guy might as well have been trying to sell me encyclopedias or typewriter ribbon. [...]

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One million visitors  

I just wrote a post on BigHugeLabs.com about how I’ve had 1,000,000 unique visitors over the past 30 days. That’s a million individual people. The more I think about it, the more it blows me away. Until the internet came along and changed everything, the only way for a person to reach a million people [...]

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