October 2010
The Hundred Acre Wood →
“Happy may be all very well, Eeyore, but it doesn’t butter any parsnips.” ~ Rabbit Everyone should have their own hundred acre wood. It would be wonderful to own the woods, but that’s a bit much for…
Body and Soul →
“You don’t have a soul - you are a soul. You have a body.” ~ C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters
Open Source Learning Laboratory →
Eduforge announced the launch of a Open Source Learning Laboratory. They are offering some free courses that focus
on the Open Source world. All courses are online using Moodle. They will have…
Have A Poetic Halloween →
If you’re headed to a party this weekend with a literary theme for Halloween, you can try some inexpensive costume ideas from poets.org. You can dress up as Emily Dickinson…
Pyramid Mountain and Tripod Rock →
The Pyramid Mountain Natural Historic Area is a good day trip hike (it’s more than a “walk”). I think it’s best known for Tripod Rock. The rock is a huge, 160-ton boulder naturally balanced on three…
“a video from 30 Rock - Frank vs. Lutz in Strip-Pong”
– 30 Rock - Strip-Pong Video via NBC.com
plus a pre-roll ad (yippee!)
Science Friday →
I have been listening to the NPR program Science Friday on the radio for years and more recently catching their podcasts. It is a weekly science talk show that’s very accessible for…
Back To Nature →
There was a “back to nature” movement back in the hippie 1960s. It encouraged people to spend time together in nature and to talk about their experiences of the natural world. It was seen as both a…
Fountains of Wayne →
Fountains of Wayne is a Grammy-nominated American power pop band.The group was formed by songwriters Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood. They met…
Poetry Publishers Who Accept Electronic... →
I received two emails recently from poets who submitted poems to Poets Online and had their poem “discovered” online by another publisher who wanted to put it in print. For example, Violet Nesdoly wrote “In Stitches” for our February 2006 prompt about being “
Koans →
I first encountered Zen kōans when I read Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye in seventh grade. What is the sound of one hand clapping?
I loved the book and I went…
Candace McKee Ashmun Preserve at Forked River... →
A nice post on the G.R. Dodge blog about Candace McKee Ashmun who had a dedication for the Candace McKee Ashmun Preserve at Forked River Mountain in the Pinelands. Not only…
Being Sure →
“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh?” he whispered. “Yes, Piglet?” “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s hand. “I just wanted to be sure of you.” — A.A. Milne Alan Alexander Milne with his…
Haiku 575 Twitter 140 →
I’m not claiming that Twitter is poetic, but - I have read several articles online about using that 140 character posting service to share haiku. Sun Microsystems’ ex-CEO,…
PCCC Writing Initiative Presenting at TYCA... →
The Writing Initiative team and WI faculty fellows will have a major presence at the Two Year College Association (TYCA) Northeast regional conference next month. Five members of the PCCC…
The No-Time Between Years →
It’s good to recognize that not everyone observes the months and the seasons the way you do. It can be as simple as realizing that as I have moved into autumn another part of the world has moved into…
A New Jersey Autumn Story →
Guest Post by David Wheeler Dave’s book, Wild New Jersey: Nature Adventures in the Garden State, is being published in January 2011 by Rutgers University Press. He…
The Beat of Our Searching →
More than a billion searches are done every day on Google. Do you ever wonder what people are searching for? I think most of us are a bit curious, and I also think it’s something that students are…
Personal Energy Needs →
You have four energy needs – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. According to the folks at the Energy Project, there’s also a fifth level need if you can get your energy up to a place that…
Using GIS to map endangered and threatened... →
Click for larger image via http://www.state.nj.us/dep/gis/
Come learn about the NJDEP Division of Fish and Wildlife’s geographic information system (GIS) approach to…
An Autumn Haiku Lesson →
The four most prominent “masters” of haiku in the Japanese tradition are Bashô (1644-94) Buson (1716-83), Issa (1763-1828) and Shiki (1867-1902). Here are a few by Issa on autumn…
How Team Names Travel: American Football →
Since team franchises often are moved from one city to another, team names often move and are sometimes changed. In 1936, Cleveland’s new AFL franchise decided to…
Moon of Falling Leaves →
The full Moon for this month occurs tomorrow the 23rd. The most common name for the October full moon is the Hunter’s Moon. It’s the first moon after the harvest moon. It was so named because it was…
Privacy →
I think Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is right - “What people want isn’t complete privacy… It’s that they want control over what they share and what they don’t.”
Yo La Tengo →
Yo La Tengo is an American alternative rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan (guitars, piano, vocals),…
StickK To Your Commitment →
I don’t know if this helpful for fellow procrastinators, but… stickk.com started at Yale University a few years ago when Dean Karlan (Economics Professor at Yale and Co-Founder of stickK) came…
Forum: Reflections On The Struggles Of The 1960s →
As part of National Arts and Humanities month, and with a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, Juvenile Education & Awareness Project of Passaic & the Passaic County Cultural and…
Liberty Water Gap Trail →
The Liberty Water Gap Trail is a work-in-progress in New Jersey. It’s a unique trail in that it connects two national landmarks at each end: the Delaware Water Gap at the Delaware River…
Attention As A Social Media Literacy →
If you were the only person on earth who knew how to use a fishing rod, you would be tremendously empowered.
If you were the only person on earth who knew how to read and write, you would be…
Happy Birthday, Mick →
As a kid, I liked that I shared today as a birthday with Mickey Mantle. He was my favorite player on my favorite team. That was probably in part because of the shared birthday, but…
Workshop: Attacking The Question →
PCCC Writing Center workshops are open to all PCCC students and designed to help students become better writers in a variety of situations. All workshops are free and you do not need to register. Be…
Water, Water Everywhere and Yet →
I missed Blog Action Day this year (it was last week) when bloggers were asked to post about this year’s topic of concern: water. But I did see a good number of posts and here are some…
More Numerology →
An interesting once-in-my-lifetime number combination today for my birthday: 10-20-2010. I’m not sure what, if anything, that’s supposed to mean, but I did buy some lottery tickets…
Japanese Maple →
Autumn/Japanese Maple Originally uploaded by *SuiKa* (often off) Autumn as seen by one of the 400 kinds of maple trees.
Licking →
It is impossible to lick your elbow. Not that you really wanted to, but…
Tennessee Titans →
The Houston Oilers, who played at the Astrodome from 1960-96, moved to Nashville for the 1997 season. They maintained the name Oilers along with an oil…
Excerpts from the Forthcoming Mark Twain's... →
One hundred years after his death, the University of California Press is publishing the Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition in a series of…
Baby Brains →
Your brain can’t remember anything from the first three years of your life. So, don’t bother taking that two year old to Disneyworld.
Commitment Contracts →
You’ve probably heard of the expression “carrot and stick (also “carrot or stick”). It’s an idiom that refers to a policy of offering a combination of rewards and punishment to induce behavior. The…
Preparing Students To Teach in Colleges →
I read an article recently on the InsideHigherEd site
about preparing graduate students to teach in colleges. It’s not new to hear a call for better preparation in graduate
education for…
The Lovin' Spoonful, 10 CC and Pearl Jam →
What do the bands The Lovin’ Spoonful, 10 CC and Pearl Jam have in common? Not much. Certainly not their styles of music. Keep reading. The Lovin’ Spoonful…
Mark Twain, Blogger →
A hundred years have passed since Mark Twain’s death. He left serious instructions that many of his autobiographical pieces would remain unpublished for 100 years. Next month, volume one will be…
Coconut Water →
I was in the Bahamas recently and I noticed a lot of coconut water drinks. It didn’t register as anything special with me because I figured it was just an island thing. But when I came home I noticed…
Patterns of Poetry Podcast Series →
I came across this nice series of podcasts (audio files) on “Patterns of Poetry” series. They are short (about 5 minutes each) discussions of poetic techniques. It’s not the “how to find…
Streaming TV Players →
So many ways to watch TV besides the traditional way.
I’m a Netflix user and was very tempted to buy their Roku streaming player (less than…
Don't make me unfriend you! →
Don’t make me unfriend you Originally uploaded by ginatrapani
