BLOG ENTRIES FOR AUGUST 2005

Entries are sorted in chronological order with most recent entries at the bottom of the page.

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The Malcolm Reynolds Teaching Method
Monday, August 1, 2005 12:05:08 PM

Most of you realise that I teach high school English. In watching Firefly over and over and over again, I've realised that you can learn a whole heck of a lot about teaching from watching Mal. Now I ...

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Get Retro! Gunsmoke!
Sunday, August 7, 2005 4:55:22 AM

I know there's been talk of a Serenity video game and I'm all for that so long as it's for a PS2 or something, not the computer. But let's look back at a classic...Nintendo's [u]Gunsmoke[/u]. Now ...

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A Little Tai Chi in the Morning
Tuesday, August 9, 2005 3:02:16 AM

Where I live we have a pretty large asian population. In fact, the closest grocery store to me is a Lion Market (totally asian market)...tho the Safeway is just beyond it. Anyway, almost every morning ...

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A Little Obsessed, Are We?
Friday, August 12, 2005 9:31:05 AM

Yes. I will admit it. At this point in the summer, as close as we are to the BDM, I am starting to get a bit obsessive about Firefly. Amber and I started rewatching the series and then I think she ...

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The Real River Tam (part two)
Saturday, August 20, 2005 4:17:46 AM

Well, a whole lotta blogs ago I talked about this first grader that my wife observed at the school she'll be teaching at this school year. Now, just to recap, Mrs. Outlaw just got her credential and ...

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The Real River Tam (part three)
Sunday, August 21, 2005 10:39:19 AM

Well, we all had a bit of a surprise yesterday! Amber and I were in her classroom working (for more hours than I care to count) to finish setting it up and our best friends were over as well as her family. ...

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One of My Issues with Most SF Novels
Tuesday, August 23, 2005 11:52:11 AM

So upon the recommendation of another browncoat, I grabbed a book from the library that Bruce Boxleitner wrote called _Frontier Earth_. Yeah, it's a bit of an SF Western mix. Definitely not like Firefly ...

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So It's Been Nearly a Year...
Friday, August 26, 2005 4:09:59 AM

...since I was first introduced to Firefly. Well, I remember seeing ads for it back in 2002 and I thought...geeez, what a Farscape rip-off! Yeah, I admit it, I really said that to myself. But I remember ...