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I love it that so many of my friends are rabblerousers... Give 'em hell Jon! Show 'em who's boss, Adina.... This takes quite a bit of guts... but I suppose that makes the fringe a bit more interesting. Huzzah! Sunshine Sought for Texas Election Systems Examiners
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his is the info about the robot show I'm sponsoring! Saturday July 3rd, 2004 CAM Entertainment Presents: The 1st Annual CAM Carnival The Official Contemporary Art Month Kickoff Party & Fundraiser. With the Jack Officers, (featuring Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers), Kal Spelletich of the SEEMEN Robotics
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I really had a blast at Web Writer's Weekend 2003. It was quite the experience on many levels. So a group of my friends and I have been conspiring to do it all over again this fall! "This year's national JournalCon will occur in Washington,
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I need to plug an amazing event happening in Austin this upcoming Saturday. A group of media teachers in AISD, in their spare time with zero funding, have arranged for students from all over our region to showcase their digital films. They had to turn away quite a few very
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Chris posed a very interesting rhetorical question today. How much energy does the Internet consume? Broadly, this means electric, mental, organizational, etc. Specifically, considering all the networked devices and the electrons going through billions of connections, how many Watts do we dissapte in the ether? Can you count computers, translate
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Well. I think we had a stunning success at the EFF-A/EFF/Creative Commons / Andrews Kurth / Polycot / Midas Networks / Joito Party last night. Over 300 people came through the doors of El Sol y La Luna... hipsters, music-lovers, geeks, bloggers, lawyers, and movers and shakers of all shapes and sizes
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I'm not really happy with my performance on the edutainment panel. I was definitely ill-prepared, my slides blew up on me, and I wasn't sure I made cogent points... after the stress of getting ready for the eff-a tradeshow booth, I think that made me come
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She dropped her satchel on the floor, the multitude of unconverged, expensive and fragile contents scratching and curmudgeoning like war-beaten cats in an asinine lover's quarrel. Yet with the care of an ostrich turning its eggs, she used the tips of her fingers to coax her surplus/refurbished/
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Some exciting news (I can't believe I didn't blog this yet.) I'm speaking at SxSWi in the "Edutainment" panel on March 14. "Are students more apt to pay attention when gaming technology is introduced into the classroom? Does paying attening to
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Here's a fun little organizational tip that I've implemented last year that's been really useful. This is particularly good if, like me, you are a packrat and can't stand to throw things away. You're going to need 2 bins or
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So last year I made a set of resolutions about this time. Mike and Alex encouraged me to grade myself. At first I thought it would be very depressing (gee, I didn't accomplish ANYTHING) but then I realized that I didn't do as badly as I
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Here is a sign that I have a mental disease: I kept telling people "I intend to spend my Christmas vacation doing absolutely nothing" and then the FRIDAY night after I left work for a lengthy 2 week "vacation" I made a very long list all