Farm Bureau Insurance: Secretly Supporting Big Ag and a Right-Wing Agenda
When my family and I moved to the state of Washington a couple of years ago and bought a house, we began searching for homeowners…
20+ Years of Casually Developing Websites
There is a rapidly expanding list of technology-related things that make me feel old. One is the memory of writing actual letters (on PAPER!) to…
A Behavioral Scientist’s Initial Thoughts on the Tin Can API, Big Data, and Learning Analytics
I attended the DevLearn 2012 Conference this week and learned a lot more about the emerging Tin Can API. What is the Tin Can API?…
Top 10 Things I Love About Xootr Scootering to Work
I recently purchased a super-sweet Xootr MG Scooter to use as my primary mode of transportation to work. And I love it. It is a “kick” or…
Pedophilemobile?
I was rather alarmed to see this vehicle parked across the street from my apartment the other day. “Come see the collection of Barbies I…
Using Wikipedia for Good and Not Evil in Education
Although Wikipedia is often considered a woefully inaccurate, no-good, downright evil source by many academics, there has actually been a great deal of interesting discussion…
An Introduction to Relational Frame Theory (Tutorial)
My tutorial on Relational Frame Theory is now hosted at FoxyLearning.com. The newest version is improved in many ways, including: Full audio narration added throughout…
Aiport Urinatin’
I went to Boston this weekend and was faced with a common traveling dilemma. Not wanting to check any baggage (emotional or otherwise), at the…
29 Reasons to Fear Chuck Norris
A friend of mine forwarded this to me a while ago. I don’t know who authored it, but it is highly amusing. Chuck Norris’ tears…
Super Review
So I saw Superman Returns on Wednesday with my brother and nephew at the IMAX theater in Grand Rapids. Several scenes were in 3D, which…
Supergeek
Sometime this week I’ll probably go see Superman Returns with my older brother Garry and his son (my nephew) Allen. This will continue a long…
Mount St. Helens
Today is the 26th anniversary of the huge eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980. My family lived in Kelso, Washington at the…
the prodigal son returns
greetings, people of earth. i have safely made the journey home to extremely warm tempe, arizona. to my great surprise, my house is in precisely…
leaving london
hi all – i’m at london’s heathrow airport right now. my flight doesn’t leave for another couple of hours (the “tube,” london’s subway, got me…
london again
i arrived in london yesterday morning. it turns out two people from the conference were on my same flight from sweden (heather, who is a…
lovely linköping
i’m sitting at an internet cafe in linköping, sweden right now. my conference ended today around 2pm, and since then i’ve just been hanging out…
berlin
i’m in berlin now, and they have a funky german keyboard with the “z” and “y” keys (amongst others) in strange places. this is greatly…
amsterdam
I’m in Amsterdam now, and it is fabulous. My last day in Brugges I rented a bike and rode it to the Belgian coast (to…
brugges
i am now in brugges, belgium and it is absolutely awesome. the city is a bit touristy, but it’s incredibly beautiful. there are canals running…
paris
I am in Paris. I took the Eurostar train from London to Paris via the “chunnel” yesterday. I’m staying in a hostel in Montmartre, which…
london
okay, several quick items: 1) these goofy british keyboards have the “shift” keys in strange places, so i’m rarely going to capitalize anything anymore. consider…
burger king bloggin’
Okay, so I’m writing this from the basement of a Burger King in the middle of London’s trendy theatre district. No, I was not eating…
leaving soon
I’ll be leaving for the airport in about 10 hours. It’s unlikely I’ll get any sleep during that time. Although I’m pretty much finished packing…
getting ready
I leave for Europe in 9 days. Yikes. I have approximately 427 days worth of work to get done in these 9 days. Life is…
bye-bye miss american pie
I probably won’t post here too much before I leave because I’m feverishly working to finish my Relational Frame Theory tutorial before I leave. I’d…
upcoming european adventure
It’s nearly 3 weeks before I even leave for my grand European adventure, and I’m already posting comments here. How’s that for blog value? I…
