Monthly Archives: June 2003

Song of Fire and Ice Summaries

As a reader of George R. R. Martin‘s Song of Fire and Ice series, I was amazed at the chapter summaries available at http://members.aol.com/vbkorik27/main.html. With the fourth book long from being published (according to Martin’s website), it’s good to have … Continue reading

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More moms staying home

According to the AP, Census: More Kids With Stay-At-Home Moms By GENARO C. ARMAS, Associated Press Writer  WASHINGTON – Heather Stergos once thought that teaching art, finger-painting and reading stories to 16 screaming 2-year-olds was tiring work. Then she had … Continue reading

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Fried Green Tomatoes

This afternoon one of my co-workers was munching on a beefsteak tomato as though it were an apple (taking bites out of the whole tomato instead of eating it by the slice for example). We started talking about tomatoes and … Continue reading

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Buying Blue Bell Ice Cream

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Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Minolta 7Hi…

No offense to Janis Joplin with the title, but isn’t that camera wonderful? It originally retailed at $1299. I’m finding it on ebay.com now for around $800 (with a 256MB card). My 33rd birthday is fast approaching . . .

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GPS tracking

I found this article on Yahoo! News from Reuters: “Labrador retriever Momo shows off a mobile satellite-based global positioning system (GPS) dog-tracking device attached to her harness at a demonstration in Tokyo June 16, 2003. Japan’s largest home and office … Continue reading

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Clear, Complete, Correct, Concise, & Creative

I use the following set of criteria for the papers that I grade: Equally divided between Clear, Complete, Correct, Concise, and Creative. I need to search around and see if there isn’t a rubric already designed for that approach.

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