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What the Trend is a very wiki wiki where users edit why something’s trending. Could it be useful for marketing purposes?

Expect to see “#ultrabath: Because it’s awesome.” trend tomorrow.

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Imagine a Wii game where the studio took their time, thought through the storyline, and perhaps (wonder of wonders) have read a few books?

And they reference Cloverfield with They Live – what more do we need?

Misunderstood
Vermont
Statuesque
Swedish
Arthur’s
Africa
Sensation

Did you see the abbreviations for the days of the week?

Polimomce = Mother-in-law

Woohoo, workshop icebreakers.

Sure, there’s going to be E3, with all of its conduits and nintenwebs in full swing. But Mike – has your wife seen this?

LEGO Indy 2 – Now with a brick-by-brick level editor?

We talk of getting an ARC for Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan (giving away galleys at BEA? Argh!). Can you imagine if I got an advanced copy of 1Q84?

What is the book about? No one knows, except that they need to buy it.

Perhaps it’s a puzzle, like this one:

Polimomce

Can you get the pictogram? It’s like one of those “head/heels” puzzles.

A hint? I’m fond of mine.

Why didn’t anyone tell me about Phoenix, Worth1000’s free online image editor? This is the quickest-loading one I’ve seen. Check out the rest of the aviary.

We’re in day two of a district training. Some of the stuff has been kind of goofy (like which candy bar you choose determining your personality type…I think I may have seen that quiz on Facebook), some just plain weird (thank you, Worth1000…yes, it’s EyePod/money laundering/cardiac arrest), and some brain teasers that I might be able to use as a warm-up in a staff meeting. To give the presenter credit, it’s three days, eight hours per day. We need some wake-up from time to time. (And teachers, if you’ve ever been surrounded by a group of them, are not always the best audience.)(Yes, I said it. Deal with it.) We did a cool graphing out of certain lessons on a rigorous/relevant X,Y chart (to really evaluate if lessons are doing what we intend them to do). I liked it so much, I took some photos with my phone. As I type, more teachers have gotten up and started taking photos with their phones. Muahaha! I am influencing creative uses of common technology. Perhaps some may even try their hand at booyoring next year.

Little known fact: when creating a survey, it’s better to have an even number of options so that you have to answer either high or low – you can’t choose the middle.

The meat of the training has actually been good, even though it’s during the summer. For my professional thoughts on how to make instruction relevant and rigorous, check out the other site.

For here, let’s get irrelevant.

We’ve seen three words to describe an animal you would become, three words to describe your favorite color, and even three words to describe your favorite river (don’t get me started on what educational psychologists say about that result). (I guess three is the magic number, whether in training or in Twittertopia. Nice break-up words, by the way, Devin. The Phantom Menace. That’s comedy.)

Cheers!

But here’s a fun challenge that I had seen before but had momentarily forgotten the solution.

So this week’s Pop Quiz takes on a new form:

What is the connection between these words? Hint: The number seven plays a part.

Misunderstood
Vermont
Statuesque
Swedish
Arthur’s
Africa
Sensation

Post some comments, post some guesses. (I should mention that my group won the challenge. Jodi, I’m gloating on the inside.) The solution will be posted on Saturday.

Mom, this one’s for you:

It’s from Tom Chapin (brother of the Cat’s in the Cradle guy).

More on my wife’s broken foot.

But first, the rumors are true – Target didn’t have a pre-order for The Conduit, so I gave my business to Gamestop. It does work out since Gamestop has an exclusive version of the game. I guess my ASE will look different than other versions of the game. I will say that I dig this box art better than the other.

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On Tuning a Foot
The podiatrist was trying to see how healed my wife’s foot is. I guess X-rays are a little behind ultrasounds when trying to identify a break. Both were done, but I didn’t know about a third option.

Tuning forks, when vibrating and placed on a toe, will feel weird but won’t hurt. But if you have a broken bone and it starts vibrating, I guess it hurts.

Quick way to tell if you’ve broken a foot.

The foot’s still broken; she still has two weeks in the boot, but it’s like wearing a retainer. You wear it, it does what it needs to do. You don’t, it stays on longer. My wife has done a great job adjusting to life with a giant piece of metal and cloth attached to the bottom of her leg. (Although I’m pretty certain she’d like to not have ботинок массового разрушения.)

Reading from Donald Miller’s Searching for God Knows What this morning.

…we are mistaken to believe this is a war between people with flesh and people with flesh. The only appropriate war rhetoric is war rhetoric that calls our enemies spirits, and people with flesh the victims of this war. Satan wants us to fight with one another, and I understand that sometimes evil must be restrained, but our war, the war of the ones who believe in Jesus, is a war unseen. If we could muster a portion of the patriotism we feel toward our earthly nations into a patriotism and bravery in concert with the kingdom of God, the enemy would take fewer casualties to be sure.

Something for me to remember – he compares the effects of the first betrayal to what happened to kids born around areas of nuclear fallout. Our souls are mutated/broken.

It seems like geeks sitting around talking about match-ups has been taken to the next level. Get a computer programmer in the room with some martial arts masters and this happens.

Thanks, @ElScorpio.

Pirate vs. Knight? Anachronisms…building…

Order food from a Wii channel:
http://wii.com/jp/movies/demae-channel/
It is a separate channel, so you do have to exit the game you’re playing. This channel is Japan only, but the U.S. has experimented with this when Pizza Hut and EverQuest teamed up for non-stop pizza in-game ordering.

The only hope for exercise was to get up and make some food.

We’re doomed.

Slade, check out Gladiator A.D. Remember how we talked about games like Street Fighter IV getting old fast because we’re not on the same team? Split-screen arcade swordfighting. It doesn’t look very Mario-friendly, though. It’s put out by some group called HVS. I think there’s a game called The Conduit coming out sometime soon.