December 2008
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Relevance
I’m having an internal battle of the concept of relevance.
Does one have to be relevant to people? Is anything worthwhile if its not relevant? Or is irrelevance simply originality? Does someone have to be popular to be important?
On one hand, I don’t want to think that Akon is better than Beethoven because more people in our generation like Akon than Beethoven. And I don’t...
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Letter to the Editor in this Week's Falls Church... →
Editor,
With the U.S. News and World Report and Newsweek high school rankings recently released, Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School settling into its role in the school system and the George Mason principal search heating up, talk of the trajectory of Falls Church City Public Schools is in the air. I hope that FCCPS can take this transitional period as an opportunity to reaffirm progressive...
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Sample piece of draft of new song- “The...
Ummm....Yum.
Disqus Comments for Tumblr →
Site to add comment boxes to your Tumblr
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
By Gil...
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Tidying Up Art →
The Swiss are really funny.
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Ralph Nader on Sesame Street →
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William Kilpatrick on "The Project Method" and... →
My roommates and I have been grappling with how to allocate college time in the most efficient way to acchieve balance, progress and happiness. Currently, we are on this “Project”-based kick.
Kilpatrick really speaks to the way we have been thinking, because he appears to be proposing a method that emphasizes “projects” and “purposeful acts.” He is encouraging students...
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Introduction to essay I am working on about...
In the early decades of the twentieth century, an ideological battle was raging in the world of American education. On the extreme end of one side of the debate were the behaviorists, a sect of psychologists, led by Edward L. Thorndike, who believed that “education, as the process of learning new behavior, takes place through continuous conditioning in which the teacher molds the students’ new...
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“I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite...”
– Mister Rogers
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Holy Smokes Second Album Tentative Song List
Tentative Title: To Find It All Quite Glorious by Pete Davis and the Holy Smokes
Completed Songs:
The Needs The Heart’s-a-Burnin’ Jubilee The Resolutions The Smoky Room Jazz Singer
Songs in the Works:
The Odd Ducks’ Anthem The One-Way Trip The Autobiography of the Bums The Glorious Things The Wisps
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Robert Putnam: Basically, he's the man. →
Essay: “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital.”
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60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of...
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
I think it’s quite wonderful that the entire world got together and agreed to all this.
“Dignity and justice for all of us”
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Rebecca Davis Photography Blog →
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Rebecca Davis Photography →
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Norm MacDonald Roast of Bob Saget →
People say this all the time, but I am sincere: I find this to be one of the top five funniest things I have ever seen.
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PeteHappens Videos →
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Pete Davis and the Holy Smokes →
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“When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that...”
– Mister Rogers
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TED Talk: Philip Zimbardo →
I really dig his thoughts on heroes at the end.
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TED Talk: Clifford Stoll →
This guy’s great. I like the way he thinks…
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Selections of numbered thoughts I had on November...
#3. I have no interest in being better at anything than anyone because being better at something than someone else insinuates that someone is doing the same thing as you. Therefore, what you are doing is unoriginal and thus not something to pride in as a work of progress. Then again, I guess this doesn’t apply to being better at “being original” than someone. Then again,...
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The Host by David Foster Wallace →
High quality of journalism. Very intriguing writing style.
First Tumblr
I’m going to try this tumblr thing out. Let’s see how this goes.