Blog Archive 2018 Sex, Drugs, and Tough Decisions Jun 29 2018 Jim McKee (1942-2018) Mar 08 2018 2017 The Happy Mosh Pit Oct 08 2017 2016 Moving from iPhone 6 to 7 Dec 23 2016 Let’s Wait Awhile Oct 11 2016 Thinking about getting a unicycle? Jun 04 2016 2015 AnyList vs Grocery IQ Nov 20 2015 Adi Gildor (1969-2015) Sep 05 2015 Growing up with a single mom Jun 21 2015 In praise of dentists Jun 03 2015 La La Love Me Like You Do May 25 2015 Kid Book Review: Are they laughing with me or at me? #IMWAYR Mar 23 2015 Darn You Taylor Swift! Feb 22 2015 Kid Book Review: Winter Classics #IMWAYR Feb 16 2015 2014 Kid Book Review: Details #IMWAYR Dec 08 2014 Zebras and Expertise on the Internet Dec 07 2014 Finding my niche #IMWAYR Dec 01 2014 Jenny and the Cat Club #IMWAYR Nov 24 2014 Taking a break from sports Sep 18 2014 Kid Book Review: Travel Edition #IMWAYR Sep 01 2014 Milestones Aug 23 2014 Getting Kids Hooked on Poetry #IMWAYR Aug 04 2014 Kid Book Review: Eclectic Edition #IMWAYR Jul 28 2014 Violence in Picture Books #IMWAYR Jul 21 2014 My favorite podcast app: It’s not what you think Jul 16 2014 It’s Monday! What are You Reading? #IMWAYR Jul 14 2014 Tile, a Geek Love Story Jul 03 2014 Kid Book Review: The Mister Men and Little Misses Jun 19 2014 1983: Revisited Jun 09 2014 Subscribe via email Jun 04 2014 Dokken versus the World Jun 02 2014 Kid Book Review: Robot Edition May 21 2014 Wawa: Philadelphia’s Hidden Jewel May 19 2014 Teach Better: My New Teaching Blog May 11 2014 Choosing the Right Tool for the Job May 09 2014 Irish Pride Apr 26 2014 Improving Classes with Live Student Feedback Apr 24 2014 Crucial Years in Metal: 1983 Apr 18 2014 Creativity in the Classroom Apr 17 2014 Another Way to Teach Seminars Apr 06 2014 Black metal for kids Apr 04 2014 Extreme Bird Watching Apr 02 2014 Fun and Games at the Library Mar 21 2014 Pretty Pretty Princess! Mar 12 2014 Economics and Data Analysis Mar 09 2014 Don’t Throw Them to the Wolves Mar 04 2014 My Little Pony: Revelation Feb 27 2014 Three Pieces of Stat Nerd Trivia Feb 14 2014 My Second Blogoversary Feb 13 2014 Exploiting Irrationality Jan 30 2014 Complementarities of Literature and Music Jan 19 2014 2013 Home Music System 3.0 Dec 31 2013 PDF Expert 5.0 Dec 30 2013 Conan the Snowman Dec 27 2013 Our Favorite Board Game: Sequence for Kids Dec 17 2013 Kid Book Review: Second Time Around Dec 16 2013 My Photo Management Quest, Part 3: Dropbox and Friends Dec 13 2013 Online tech in an in-person seminar: An experiment Dec 10 2013 Three Great Product Features Dec 04 2013 My Photo Management Quest, Part 2: Loom Nov 29 2013 The Scepter and the Crown Nov 26 2013 Nonviolent Dungeons and Dragons for Kids Nov 21 2013 A Few More Thoughts on Grade Inflation Nov 12 2013 A Few Thoughts on Grade Inflation Nov 07 2013 So Embarrassing Sep 18 2013 A Third Wave of Awesome Sep 13 2013 The Stars Align Sep 05 2013 Markdown and Me Aug 30 2013 Exams and Online Classes Aug 23 2013 A Dumber Dumb and Dumber Aug 02 2013 The Opposite of a MOOC Jul 24 2013 A Google Reader Replacement: The Nerderati Have Spoken Jun 30 2013 Too Soon? Jun 09 2013 What I’ve learned about teaching advanced undergraduate seminars May 20 2013 Pride May 06 2013 My Photo Management Quest, Part 1: Adobe Revel and Everpix Apr 30 2013 Feeling Negative Apr 25 2013 Kid Book Review: Library Trip Report 3 Apr 11 2013 App Review: My Little Pony: Twilight Sparkle: Teacher for a Day Mar 25 2013 Helping Old Churches Connect with the Community Mar 16 2013 Expanding the Market for Limited Edition Dishes Mar 09 2013 Another Step on My Way to Paperless Nirvana: The Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 Mar 07 2013 Heavy Metal for Kids Feb 24 2013 How our home music system got a little more complicated and a lot more awesome Feb 16 2013 The Neutral Podcast: A for Entertainment, B for Effort, and C for Economics Feb 12 2013 Recycling Monsters Feb 06 2013 Crashed disks, imperfect backup strategies, and lessons learned Feb 05 2013 Lectures 2.0: Using online materials to improve off-line courses Jan 29 2013 Stock prices are not grades for last quarter Jan 24 2013 Update: The World’s Most Underrated Kids’ Toy Jan 22 2013 The World’s Most Underrated Kids’ Toy Jan 20 2013 My Three Favorite Low Traffic Blogs Jan 17 2013 Who should own course materials? Jan 13 2013 An Homage to Chris Welty Jan 08 2013 Siracusa 2016 Jan 04 2013 2012 Toy Trains for Little Kids Dec 29 2012 Scratching my nerd itch with Octopress Dec 29 2012 Neighborhood Caroling Dec 26 2012 Happy Blogoversary! Dec 22 2012 Conflict and Sharing Dec 17 2012 Playing the Victim Dec 13 2012 A Few Thoughts on MOOC’s Dec 08 2012 Is it cruel to raise the retirement age? Nov 19 2012 Kid Book Review: Halloween Edition Nov 16 2012 Bathroom Fan Love Letters Oct 30 2012 A few comments on Apple’s Big October Event Oct 25 2012 Mythical Creatures Oct 13 2012 Violence in Kids’ Books Oct 06 2012 My thoughts on the iPhone 5 Oct 02 2012 In the age of the internet, original ideas are hard to come by Jun 03 2012 Getting Things Done with Remember The Milk (i.e., GTD with RTM) May 27 2012 Got My Country On May 20 2012 PDF Annotation on the iPad in 2012 May 16 2012 Carle vs. Lionni: No Accounting for Taste May 10 2012 Kid Book Review: Library Trip Report 2 Apr 28 2012 Social Science Labs Apr 06 2012 Salamanders and Peepers Apr 02 2012 Progress Toward Paperless Mar 30 2012 Kid Book Review: Library Trip Report Mar 13 2012 Tire Talk Mar 11 2012 Photos + iPhoto + iOS + iCloud = i’m underwhelmed Mar 09 2012 The Beatles’ Strange Obsession with Serial Killers Mar 05 2012 Top 10 Things Professors Do During Spring Break Mar 04 2012 Monster Books Addendum Mar 04 2012 Home Music Streaming Mar 02 2012 Why are zebras so mean and horses so nice? Mar 01 2012 Kid Book Review: Monster Edition Feb 26 2012 New Wave: Not Dead Yet! Feb 22 2012 Time Preference Puzzles Feb 17 2012 E-books and Kids Feb 13 2012 Albums Feb 06 2012 Ode to My Messenger Bag Feb 02 2012 Sharing and saving Jan 30 2012 All Men Play on 10 Jan 28 2012 The Morality of Voting Jan 20 2012 Mincer 1958 Jan 17 2012 The Beatles and the Spice Girls Jan 16 2012 Google Calendar for Small Groups Jan 16 2012 Radiators, Thermostats, and Heat Momentum Jan 14 2012 Downfall Jan 14 2012 Humidifers Jan 11 2012 Does School Suck? Jan 11 2012 LyricPlay Jan 10 2012 The Mystery of the Hair Metal Power Ballad Jan 09 2012 Update: Comments on Blogs Jan 06 2012 Smooth Eighties Pop Jan 06 2012 Comments on Blogs Jan 04 2012 Pregnant Women and Ramadan Jan 03 2012 Obama vs Romney 2012 Jan 01 2012 2011 Bad Behavior in Kids’ Books Dec 30 2011 Home for Christmas Dec 23 2011 First Post Dec 21 2011