It always struck me as weird that EFL teachers, once they get trained, start using technical terminology that sounds silly. Like “Rubric”, which always meant “lesson” in the old days but now seems to be “ranking system” or “evaluation system”, especially one with explicit markers to measure competency level. Me, I’m growing fundamentally opposed...
Read more →My progress bar plugin congratulated me today for writing up a storm, but I accept no responsibility for the downpour that’s been falling off-and-on over the last few days. I have been writing a lot, though. I just polished off a 2nd redraft (meaning a 4th draft total) of a story that’s still being...
Read more →Blame (or thank) Tina for this one:
Read more →Here’s a website, created by Tina, tracking sales by my Clarion West 2006 classmates, as well as providing links to their various webpages and so on. Go have a look: Clarion West 2006.
Read more →Not cool. Not acceptable. Not to be tolerated. Blogger Kathy Sierra at Creating Passinate Users has apparently been receiving death threats, and having her likeness posted in all kinds of sick, Photoshopped ways. Which is so beyond not cool it makes me feel sick. To my stomach. (via Min Jung Kim‘s site)
Read more →This is about the movie 300, which I saw at a local cinema today. I have to say, my review would be somewhat different if this had been an all-out fantasy, and not a disturbing depiction of a telling of a tale about a battle between Xerxes’ Persian army and a small group of...
Read more →The front page of the newspaper I bought today included the following news items: Pyongyang’s still run by bastards, but they were promised money. To not give it to them is understandable since they’re also dishonest bastards, but it seems to me there must be a way to keep them at the table. Some...
Read more →The last few days (from around the end of last week) have been ceaselessly amusing. In my Media English class, we’re looking at Superman in some of his different incarnations, which means I have to do a Powerpoint up for next week, when I’ll do a talk on the stuff students aren’t likely to...
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