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Re: SXSW PanelPicker®

vergil66 — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 21:42:38 -0000

It's what many are not talking about: how to close the gap for all students. Let's remind ourselves: All students.

Re: climagic Let It Snow In Your Terminal

vergil66 — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 18:55:57 -0000

Did a copy and paste into MacOs Sierra (with gawk installed): Worked like a charm. Thanks for the snow in my terminal window!

Re: Sustainable Development for the Education Set

vergil66 — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 13:39:31 -0000

Thought you'd like to know; good column, btw.

Re: Sustainable Development for the Education Set

vergil66 — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 12:55:34 -0000

The link to read Mr. Randazzo's story is broken. Here's the direct link for those who want to read: http://www.huffingtonpost.c...

Re: Senate panel votes to void Common Core

vergil66 — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:47:17 -0000

Or, Indiana might start making its own decisions instead of jumping on a bandwagon:)

Re: Pork Ramen Soup

vergil66 — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:24:26 -0000

Thanks! This is a favorite that I return to when in a pork-cooking mood for the family.

Re: Whoismyrepresentative.com

vergil66 — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:15:30 -0000

Joe: Continue to represent the majority of Hoosiers and not accept the GOP branding of Affordable Healthcare Act. It is law. Help your colleagues across the aisle through this and stay firm. Also, everyone who posts against the so termed "Obamacare" should be required to actually READ the act. And while you are at it-- thank a teacher for helping to read.

Re: Why Both the Dems and the GOP Now Think Voters Prefer Female Candidates

vergil66 — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:38:10 -0000

Thanks, Molly. I was looking for an essay for my English 12b students to read and respond to in light of gender issues. They read Deborah Tannen, Dave Barry and Andrew Sullivan this week and this is a good essay for them to read and then try to frame their thoughts on the degree to which gender "matters" in Western society. Kudos!

Re: Closing Out Cows: Final Lessons From A Dead Network

vergil66 — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:06:24 -0000

Thanks for reassuring me that Utterli is in fact: dead and that there's little chance of it climbing off the cart and saying "I'm not dead yet." Like backing up your important files from your hard drive, this is another lesson to remember.
Peace.

Re: Mr. Obama, It’s YOUR Economy Now The Reformed Broker

vergil66 — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:31:07 -0000

That's it? This is your comment as a guest blogger for the CSMonitor?

This reads like a letter to the editor to a small town paper (much like the one I live in); couldn't you have given us something else than some whiny barbs that seems like you merely just retweeted from FoxNews or from some financial network only interested in protecting its own ideas.

For a publication that is so good at balance, your post doesn't belong here but in my local paper.

UPDATE: Oh, my fault: CSMonitor pick a blog post that is fairly consistent with the rest of the pieces here. Would have liked something more than the teaser for your logic, but that's the style here.

Re: Is this thing on? (Scripting News)

vergil66 — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:43:51 -0000

Very, very happy that all's well in Scripting.com.

Re: How To: Garmin Sync

vergil66 — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:46:43 -0000

So cool.
Thanks Kelly and Ben and et al.
Peace,
Chris
PS I have a 205 running on a Mac and it seemed to work fine.

Re: dailymile and Garmin Upload: Sync Your Miles

vergil66 — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:45:36 -0000

As someone who is newer to the Garmin family, I've been anticipating this syncing capability since Xmas. Thanks for all who made it happen!

Re: No Sock Summer - Pericles (Hudson Vly Shakes, NY)

vergil66 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:10:09 -0000

Oh, on the contrary:
I liked the play (first time seeing it and attended a wonderful performance in NY).
Peace,
Chris

Re: Vergil's Coffee Tumblr - Orfeo Group Theatre Company : Productions : The Reduced Shakespeare Company's THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (abridged)

vergil66 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:05:40 -0000

Thanks, Caleb for the info.
I was looking for a performance of Complete Works and tagged yours on my delicious account. Because I was in the PA area, I saw the PA Shakespeare Festival performance.
Good luck with the run.
Peace,
Chris

Re: Asking Americans About Racism

vergil66 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:48:37 -0000

I realize that racism comes up more now with the election of Obama (or at least the topic becomes a talking point with folk), but it seems that the idea that one human doesn't like another human because of "X" or "Y" is very human.

Re: Life Between No Sock Summers - Lego Xmas Ornaments and Melting in the bathroom on...

vergil66 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:36:56 -0000

Well, the boys are asleep, but here are some ideas on ornaments:
http://www.mocpages.com/moc...
http://blog.carolinatrainbu...
http://blog.carolinatrainbu...
http://www.blogcadre.com/bl...

I'll ask Evan tomorrow and see where he got the info...or just do a tear down and rebuild and post it here.

Peace,
Chris

Re: NewsJunk for the final push (Scripting News)

vergil66 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:41:16 -0000

Here's hoping that my fair state, Indiana, puts one in the Blue column (are we still dividing up states by color? <g>)
I'll be watching the feed through the day.

Re: Prop 8 and Candidates: Divided Evangelicals

vergil66 — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:15:13 -0000

Refreshing post about the role of Evangelicals in politics. More folks who claim to be Evangelical ought not to try and shame you in any way; an effective belief seems to be the one that actually helps others unlike us.

Peace.

Re: Moodle: On Chats and Time

vergil66 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:11:46 -0000

That's probably one of my favorite parts of the chat: the ability to go back and look at the transcript ("metacognition" stuff <== oh, nice grad school word from the late 90s).
Thanks for the comment.

Re: I can't watch this election unravel (Scripting News)

vergil66 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:31:49 -0000

Good video, Dave.

Re: Electoral vote calculators (Scripting News)

vergil66 — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:28:09 -0000

Dave,
The feeling here in Hoosier land is a growing excitement about Obama; I realize that CNN has us as red-meater, but I wouldn't be surprised if Indiana _does_ post blue for the first time since 1964 (LBJ). Obama's been spending a lot of time here (even during the primaries) and that attention just might pull it off.

Re: Life Between No Sock Summers - Care package for Saturday’s race on Vimeo (via...

vergil66 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:47:29 -0000

And we've talked about this before, but my former step father grew grapes in Glen Ellen...ah, makes me want to go back there some day, eh?

Re: Moodle: On Chats and Time

vergil66 — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:46:04 -0000

Jeff,
That is a pretty good idea and I'll pass it on to Dawn as that might be what she's looking for.
I suppose, imho, I really don't care if students use the chat after class (all the transcripts are saved anyway). In fact, I just set up a "Water Cooler " chat that is open for the entire grading period and students are free to go into the site and discuss...really anything (most of the times it's trying to get clarification on some assignment...other times, it's just to chat).
Thanks for the comment.
Peace,
Chris

Re: Vergil's Coffee Tumblr - iPod Shuffle won't work after iTunes 7.7 update

vergil66 — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:46:38 -0000

Couldn't replicate your problem. I added a newly purchased song "Hot hot hot!" and also a podcast that I just downloaded and my iPod Shuffle (2nd Generation) worked fine.

Good luck!