The Mongrel Dogs Who Teach

Month: February 2009

  • Week 12 in the Program

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    Weight this week | Change since last week | Total change 310.6 | -6.6 | -57.8 Blood Pressure | Systolic | Diastolic * | 112 | 86 It seems I’m back on track. I primarily credit the recalibration of my physical activity, which means I’m doing more. I’ve been forcing myself to go a little…

  • Week 11 in the Program

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    Weight this week | Change since last week | Total change 317.2 | -0.8 | -51.2 Blood Pressure | Systolic | Diastolic * | n/a | n/a Not a terribly uplifting week, not that I expected one. Coming off being sick and then flying out to Chicago threw off my stride. In particular, I had…

  • Week 10 in the Program

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    Weight this week | Change since last week | Total change 318.0 | -0.8 | -50.4 Blood Pressure | Systolic | Diastolic * | 112 | 84 Well, this is the week I plateaued. I can feel a little proud because I broke the 50-lb barrier (barely!) but it is by far the worst week…

  • Strip Polka — another silly Facebook meme

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    OK, this is another silly Facebook object trouve meme. Let’s see how this turns out. INSTRUCTIONS:: 1. Put your iPod or other music player on shuffle. 2. For each question, press the “next” button to get your answer. 3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS! (or stupid) 4.…

  • A Picture Worth 800 Billion Dollars

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    In case somehow you think all the talk of “an economy in free fall” is somehow just hyperbole: This graphic, printed at Swampland, makes clear: We are already in deep trouble. The current stimulus bill is, in anything, too small. Under circumstances like these, rapid and massive spending by the government is the only thing…

  • Burning Down the House

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    Listening to the Republican leadership on how to fix the economy is like listening to the arsonist on how to put out the fire. Somehow the debate on the stimulus package has shifted to the Republicans and their criticisms.  Legitimate analyses are always welcome, of course, and when grown-ups want to help make a bill…

  • The (non) Importance of Caring

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    A former student of mine at some point had a facebook status that read, Why should I study something I don’t care about?  Why should teachers teach something they don’t care about? Actually, to be 100% accurate, the student’s status said that this was in someone else‘s status.  But still… “Why should I study something…

  • Week 9 in the program

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    The truly observant will notice that somehow I skipped from Week 7 to Week 9. I’m not a time traveler… I had miscounted earlier. *sigh* Weight this week | Change since last week | Total change 318.8 | -6.6 | -49.6 Blood Pressure | Systolic | Diastolic * | 120 | 70 I fell just…

  • 25 Things

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    There is a viral meme going around Facebook about listing 25 random things about yourself. It’s not accurate, since people spend some time crafting the 25 things (so they’re not really random … it’s not like people write 500 things and do a Monte Carlo selection or anything). Anyone, I got tagged by Annie and…

  • Somewhere Beyond the Bitter End

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    This is another in my intermittent series of posting things I’d written long before, so that they’re out there on the Net. I wrote this one quite some time ago, back when I was in the Bard Writing Workshop that Hun runs. I wrote most of it after taking a quick walk on a brisk…