Category Archives: General

Blowing Out the Corneas

3/9/2010 – 2:05 pm

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Right, so I’m taking a brief moment during a baby nap to post what I’ve been up to. Which is reading.
Since my last post I’ve banged through two excellent collections published by the MacArthur Foundation for Digital Media and Learning, specifically The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning and Digital Youth, [...]

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Athena Turns Six!

2/20/2010 – 1:09 pm

Hey! Athena turns six years old today! She’s done a good job dealing with the radical change we’ve all been tolerating for the last nine months or so. We love you Bean and think that you’ve been handling your demotion in the family pecking order pretty well.
On the menu tonight: steak!
Current Mood: Sick as [...]

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Pedagogical Musings and the Return of the Champs League!

2/16/2010 – 2:32 pm

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Yes, so I’ve been reading and thinking and teaching. Quite often I’m reading about teaching or thinking about teaching and even reading about thinking. Most of what I’ve been reading (and thinking) has to do with my prelim area of digital pedagogy, or how to effectively incorporate computers into instruction. The strong [...]

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Midweek Disappointment

2/11/2010 – 11:08 pm

Good Lord, the midweek Premier League games couldn’t have been more disappointing for me. I’m so very tired of Spurs spurning every opportunity to make a run at fourth, especially when it’s against poor opposition. I can honestly say my hopes never rose while Spurs occupied their top three/four spot, and that’s because they’ve [...]

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The Italian Job

2/4/2010 – 9:47 am

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I got an email last night that Mondadari Publishing, which Wikipedia says is the largest publishing company in Italy, is reprinting The Best Horror of the Year #1.
It contains my story “The Hodag,” which first appeared in the UK magazine Black Static. I can hardly wait to tell people how huge I am [...]

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Yet Another Format Change, Spurs’ True Colors, and Reflections on XBox 360 Games

1/23/2010 – 4:27 pm

Awhile back I changed the name of the site from “The Always Insightful Insights of Trent Hergenrader” (a name I never particularly liked) to “A Propensity for Unstable Realities, ” which is another name I didn’t particularly like. My goal at that time was to create a more professional-looking site and take it away from [...]

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2,010 Updates

1/13/2010 – 11:02 pm

Geez, two weeks since I last posted an entry? Shows you where blogging is on my list of priorities. So, what have I been doing?

Reading, mostly. I finished my ninth book in three weeks tonight. If you’re interested to see what I’ve been reading, count backwards on this list (or everything between Gordon Henry’s The [...]

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2009 – A Retrospective

12/31/2009 – 6:30 pm

2009 flew past, didn’t it? Quite a bit better than 2008 I must say, and I’m looking forward to what 2010 has in store.

Well, first things first. 2009 was definitely, beyond a shadow of a doubt, dominated by the one we call G-Man, G-Money, the gooch, the goon, Mr. Moo, and every so often we [...]

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World Cup Draw Winners and Losers

12/4/2009 – 4:50 pm

I was positively giddy today watching online as the balls emerged from the pots. The draw is crucial for every team, even the big boys who want a game or two to get their motors running before the knockout stages. Here are my initial thoughts for winners and losers.
Winners
The United States of America – [...]

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Footie News That Was and Will Be

12/3/2009 – 1:36 pm

I just have to point out that since my last post, Ars*nal have lost twice with an aggregate score of 0-6, are out of the Carling Cup and, for my money, out of the title race. Loverly. I wouldn’t want to gloat, but I’ve been firmly on the (minority) side saying that their squad [...]

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