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Showing posts with label Halls of Academe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halls of Academe. Show all posts
Friday, July 24, 2026

My Adventures as a Teen Aged Philosopher

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Some of the stuff I retrieved from my parent's house last year just got tossed into a box. In some cases I looked briefly at an object, ...
Monday, February 9, 2026

FIRST Robotics 2026- Week Four Report

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Visible  Progress during a FIRST robotics build season is not linear.  Sometimes you have students working very hard over keyboards and comp...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Yeah, I Have a Question about This

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Exactly what sort of vandalism involves lipstick?  Well, I noticed this at the middle school so darn near anything is possible.  A much bela...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

An Indifferent Student

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I seem to recall myself as being a rather clever student.  I learned to read early and was a voracious consumer of, well, anything.  Big sta...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

And the Seasons Change

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The official starting and ending dates of seasons are just dates on a calendar.  Life has other markers for change.  For instance, when I st...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Bollards

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We've gotten pretty accomplished at using public transportation in England.  It helps that the bus runs in front of our pub/accommodatio...
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Monday, August 19, 2024

Reunion

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Some events in life are by their very nature recurring.  They pass without much comment.  Others you must be fortunate to experience but cou...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Mr. Magoo goes to Venice?

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I should explain that this would be Venice, Florida not Venice Italy.  Confused?  Well, we have to start somewhere.  How 'bout here: Dri...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Teach a Man to Fish....and he'll probably skip school after that part.

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  Seen on the public pier, Bayfield Wisconsin.
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Dog University

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It appears I now have a full time dog. He comes to us with a bit of what you could either call ill discipline or roguish charm.  Either way ...
Friday, September 22, 2023

Robot School 2023

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It's back. In the summer of 2019, pretty much on a whim, I invited some promising middle school students to come work alongside the high...
Friday, November 18, 2022

Enigma Staff Challenge 2022

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Time for the second annual Enigma staff challenge.  My little band of middle school cryptographers only had four weeks of work time and one ...
Friday, November 4, 2022

Enigma Four (2022)

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  School schedules have their own quirks so no Enigma class last week.  That gave me two weeks to work on a suitable challenge. Each group o...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Enigma Three (2022)

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  Last week I fear I over worked the brains of my middle school codebreakers.  Or maybe they did it to themselves.  Some of them are extreme...
Friday, October 14, 2022

Enigma Two (2022)

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  On the menu this week: ciphers.  We started with ancient versions and worked our way up to basic machine cryptograms.  You did know why th...
Friday, October 7, 2022

Enigma One (2022)

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  First session of the middle school "Enigma" class.  Just as last year we lead off with a mental exercise called "Interstell...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Enigma 2022

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  Last year I ran a course called Enigma in the local middle school's after school program.  It was made up as we went along and feature...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

England 2022 - Seen Along the Way

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On a very long day of travel I passed through King's Cross Station in London.  There is a bit in the Harry Potter books where wizards pa...
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Enigma Class - The Staff Challenge

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My little crew of middle school cryptographers spent two sessions prepping a particularly complicated series of challenges for a team of inv...
Friday, October 22, 2021

Enigma - Deep Cover

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Our little band of middle school cryptographers/puzzle solvers has switched over to puzzle creation mode.  The students made up a list of st...