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Sparky

I want to get a dog.

 

Puppy juggling in 1981 (that’s what the back of the photo said, but I’d guess 1975)

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Books

Inside the Third Reich

I’m currently on this audio book.

World War II is interesting because so much modern technology became practical.  Airplanes, jets, tanks, radar, machine guns, submarines and radios.  Also, we have movies from the war. 

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Movies

The Movie, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, is a 9/10

Note:  I wrote this two months ago.

When it first came out in 2005, I didn’t much like Mr. & Mrs. Smith.  There was too much bickering.  A decade later, I liked it much better, and having just rewatched, found it to be about as good as a movie gets.

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Uncategorized

Why it’s called Big Stick Physics

In 2014, district servers were too much of a pain in the ass, so I moved my class Moodle site to a privately hosted server.  I was following a webcomic called Basic Instructions.  I like the way Scott Meyer looks at the world.  This was his logo, and as it matched my educational philosophy, when I needed a domain name, Big Stick seemed good.