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The short story is that we’re going back — and it’s gonna be a Pay-per-view episode.
I don’t even know what that means. I’ve never watched an episode in my life, and only know Jerry Springer through short clips I’ve seen in movies, and heresay from others.
Here’s the long story: Two weeks ago friends got […]

Yesterday our Star Schools group went to the Milwaukee Academy of Science and tested the Augmented Reality Game we wrote, called “Sick on South Shore Beach” — about some kids who got sick, and the players’ jobs are to work together as a water chemist, a wildlife ecologist, and a public health doctor to figure […]

I got a fancy new computer, and am geekier than evah!
Using PhotoBooth and a mirror to take this pic only proves it.

The winds are changing:
California bans driving while holding a cell phone: “September 15, 2006 (Computerworld) — California today became the fourth state to ban motorists from holding cell phones while driving, moving the issue of driver distraction to the forefront of the national agenda.
In a live Webcast, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law legislation that […]

Through a MacArthur grant by Squire, Steinkuehler, Hayes, and Shaffer, I’ve been hired to help out. This is pretty cool because it involves the most fun of the things that I love.

Greenbush Game: I get to continue work on it, and various configurations of it. This is cool, and the most closely related to my […]

Through a MacArthur grant by Squire, Steinkuehler, Hayes, and Shaffer, I’ve been hired to help out with the Greenbush AR Game, the Star Schools Games Project, and the design and creation of a GLS (Games Learning and Society) Area in the Teacher Education Building.
One of the requirements of the Star Schools grant, I understand, is […]

It’s been five years since the World Trade towers were demolished; just about as long that Saddam’s friendly nature to terrorists has been blamed, and it’s an election year. This leads me to predict that any day now Osama bin Laden will be miraculously captured, we’ll have another major attack on the U.S. and the […]

No, I haven’t got a new saw … yet. But if I did, I think I’d get a Hilti 267-E (and a EurekaZone Smart guide system). Why get a guided circular saw instead of a table saw? Mobility is the big reason. I don’t have a shop yet. A powerful, quiet, accurate circular saw with […]