Entries Categorized as 'Fun'

Test from the iPod touch

Date July 22, 2008

This is a test from the iPod touch to see how well the blogging goes. It all seems well!

Slideshare Presentation Tennis

Date July 21, 2008

Slideshare’s presentation tennis group has chosen one of my slides for their daily choice.

To see all of the daily picks (and the first four or five were done professionally, and I was day 6!) click here.

Here’s the announcement…

I think they chose mine because it makes for a nice transition between the professionally designed ones to the community designed ones.

Also please note that I did attribute the photo (it’s from stock xchng which doesn’t require an on-slide attribution) when I uploaded it.

Here’s the slide…it’s for my first day teaching undergrads and it’s time for them to introduce themselves.

Here’s the entire slidedeck thus far.

Video contest submission – Mysterious Middle School

Date February 20, 2008

So there’s a contest put on by the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages. I entered it with this submission.

The goal was to personify Spanish a bit and make it a bit ghostly. This is almost entirely student-done, with only minor help from me in shooting it. I was allowed to help with some of the finer technical details, so I did.

One note, it had to be 2 minutes or less, hence the shortness. I’m thinking about making a longer version, but my time to do so runs thin.

You’ll want to turn the sound up to get the full creepy feeling.

Below the Youtube is the TeacherTube embed. Enjoy!

Youtube direct link
Teachertube direct link


Update: Added suggestion to turn sound up, moved links to above.

Could you do without?

Date February 13, 2008

Interesting piece about a Forbes editor doing without his cell phone and Blackberry for a week, oh and no email either.

It made him cry.

The money quote is that when he had to disconnect it wasn’t just cutting off communcation, it was cutting off connection. He meant that to indicate connection with other humans, in that at one point he wanted to connect someone in Bangalore with someone in Hong Kong, which he could not do without email.

Watch it and see what you think…

Embedded below or: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmEErhy7AIcĀ 

FlickrCC reveals an overloaded Fryer

Date September 15, 2007

I was searching FlickrCC for pictures of overloaded folks. I’m working on a presentation about cognitive overload and how to prevent it when giving a presentation. Imagine my surprise when I saw a familiar face on the first page!

Back to your regularly scheduled twitting…

I think my Mac’s registry is corrupt – do I need to clean it?

Date September 15, 2007

Saw this pop-under ad today while working on some stuff here on the happy Mac.

So am I in danger? Heh. Silly popunders, you only work for the Windows crowd!