What In Tarnation?!?!? In the Classroom

Took the lyrics from the Caedmon’s Call song called Thankful and plopped them into Wordle.

This is what came out:

http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/50894/Thankful

Later Taters!

Who are you voting for?

Me…

Later Taters!

A Saturday post to make up for a Friday post. This from The Bayer Family Blog.

1. What’s your favorite type of cheese?
I am kind of strange because I really only like melted cheeses. Not a fan of blocks of cheese. My favorite cheese though is mozzarella. It is good both melted and unmelted.

2. Who is the closest person to you that you believe is a dork?
Me. I am definitely a dork.

3.Who is your favorite muppet?
Those old guys up in the balcony who would make fun of everyone on stage.

4. Pizza or muffins?
Pizza. It has melted cheese. Most have the cheese listed in answer 1.

5. Your Role model?
Jesus and Jean Luc Picard.

6. What color would your glasses be?
Black.

7. What color is your room?
White.

8. How messy is your dresser/desk/closet?
Mucho messyo.

9. Your bedsheets are..
Kinda a khaki color with some brown and blue accents.

10. The President invites you to the white house. What do you do there?
At some point we would have a sit down to discuss some of this bone headed decisions and legislation, specifically No Child Left Behind (which actually encourages some dishonest districts to leave children behind) and the Patriot Act.

11. If Hilary Clinton became President, you would..
I would pray for her just as I have prayed for W.

12. What color is your underwear?
Black.

13. This question symbolizes bad luck, therefore, there is no question here.

14. You live on a farm. What animal do you have most of?
Chickens (scrambled eggs)…. and pigs (bacon!)

Your answers in the comments…

Class dismissed!

Appetizer
Name a great website you would recommend to others.

• For the funny, I still rely on Homestarrunner.
• I sometimes use Clusty as an alternative for web searches.
• I like Zamzar because it can convert file formats. I really appreciate that it converts Flash movies to a format that I can keep on my computer and import into presentations.
• Crave that one menu item from the one restaurant? They might have the recipe at Top Secret Recipe.
• Need a mind map? Try bubbl.us
• There are a few to keep you busy.

Soup
On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 as highest), how often do you dream at night?

4. I did dream last night. There was a snipper on a tall building shooting at people down on the ground where I was.

Salad
Did you have a pet as a child? If so, what kind and what was its name?

I had some Beta fish and some hermit crabs. I believe that one of the hermit crabs ate his (who I assumed at a young age) friend. Don’t remember their names.

Main Course
If you had the chance to star in a commercial, what would you choose to advertise?

I have been in a commercial. I was one of those local cable jobs. It was a commercial for the local Chinese restaurant buffet. Fitting I suppose.  I would like to be in one of those new Apple commercials for the iPhone. Mainly because that would mean that I had an iPhone.

Dessert
What is your favorite kind of hard candy?

Right now, cough drops. Most other times. I enjoy peppermints and those cinnamon disks.  Occasionally I will indulge myself with a Werther’s Original.

Class dismissed!

Regular posting will resume after the school year gets underway. Until then, this little nugget from Assorted Stuff.

1) Post these rules before you give your facts
2) List 8 random facts about yourself
3) At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them
4) Leave a comment on their blog, letting them know they’ve been tagged

Here we go:

1. I was three hours short of having a music minor when I graduated college. Actually, I had the needed hours from another school, but SBU was picky about the credits that they transfer in. A little upsetting.
2. I love Mr. Bean and I am looking forward to the new movie Mr. Bean’s Holiday even though it appears to recycle bits from the TV show.
3. On a fourth grade field trip, I got to pilot an old fashioned steamboat on the Mississippi River. I didn’t even run the boat aground.
4. During the Missouri Tax Holiday, I purchased a 15″ MacBook Pro. Only problem, they charged me tax. I had to go back and get that reimbursed. I wasn’t too pleased with that. I love the MacBook Pro.
5. I made the highest score on my Honors World Literature final exam over Macbeth in high school without reading the play. I have always thought I should go back and read it.
6. I very rarely watch DVDs anymore. I rip them to my iMac and then upload them to the Apple TV. I don’t know how well the AppleTV is selling but I hope that they don’t drop it from the product line.
7. WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes!
8. As a Kindergartener, few friends and myself would use a Fisher Price tape player to assist us in recreating the Thriller music video during recess. I  had never even seen the music video.  I’m sure it was quite entertaining.

Now wasn’t that fun.

If you want to lay, just let me know in the comments.

Later taters!

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Now playing: Godspell (2001 National Touring Cast) - All For The Best
via FoxyTunes

How time flies when you aren’t blogging. Here is my latish feast.

Appetizer
What do you consider to be the ultimate snack food?
Little Debbie and Hostess make a wide variety of different snacking foods. It really is difficult to have just one favorite. I do really like those chocolate frosted donuts. Though there was a girl back in the day when I was in the youth group who called them black donuts and that name has stuck with me.

Soup
On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 as highest), about how popular is your last name?
This question is a bit unclear. Do they want to know popular in how many people have my last name or popular as in what people think of my last name. Without further information I really don’t feel I can properly answer this question so I will go with… 5?

Salad
Who is your all-time favorite sitcom character, and why?
Again, there are so many. Some characters that jump into my mind are Cosmo Kramer for Seinfed (of course), Frank Burns from M*A*S*H (the perfect foil), Archie Bunker from All in the Family (so honest), Mama from Mama’s Family (so put out), Chandler Bing and Phoebe Buffay from Friends (could there be anyone funnier?), Niles Crane from Fraiser (so prissy), Gob Bluth from Arrested Development, Mr. Bean from Mr. Bean (so child-like), David Brent from The Office (UK) (so clueless). But if I had to pick one to go with right now, it would have to be Dwight Schrute from the Office (USA) (so serious).

Main Course
Do you shop online? If so, name some sites you like to browse for goodies.
Not often but I do. I have bought things from New Egg, E-Bay, Old Navy, and some comic store to get the Buffy the Vampire Season 8 comics.

Dessert
Fill in the blank: I think ___________ should be ___________.
I think doing anything with a cell phone (other than turning it off) during a movie/or other performance should be punishable by immediate and swift death.

Let me know if you are dining.

Later Taters.

Here we go…

Appetizer
Name something you think is “the best.”
The best can be hard to determine especially from all the other good stuff. Apple is the best computer maker.

Soup
On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 highest), how stressed are you today?
One or two. Hakuna Matata! Good thing this question wasn’t asked during the school year.

Salad
What kind of cleanser do you use to wash your face?
Dial SOAP.

Main Course
Tonight is a blue moon! What is something that you believe only happens “once in a blue moon.”
Tonight is a blue moon?Hmm. I really don’t have an answer for that. Leave ideas in the comments.

Dessert
When was the last time it rained where you live?
Earlier this week. It has rained here quite a bit recently. We had a couple of weeks where the forecast had rain predicted every single day.

Not the best Friday Feast. Even though if you want to participate you can do so in the comments or leave you blog address below.

Later Taters!

The return…

Appetizer
Name a sound you like to hear.
Rain with occasional thunder. Not like dangerous rain and thunder, kinda mellow rain and thunder.

Soup
What is your favorite kind of cheese?
Just about any kind of cheese that is melted. Not really a fan in the unmelted cheese at all. Mozzarella is one of the few cheeses that I will eat when it is not melted.

Salad
Do you sleep late on Saturday mornings? Why or why not?
If I can. Many times schedules don’t allow me to but on that rare (soon to become less rare) do nothing day that my schedule allows me to, I will. During the school year, Saturday is the only day that my body will allow me to sleep in like that.

Main Course
When was the last time you forgot something? What was it, and how long did it take to remember it?
Yesterday. I forgot a ballgame that some of my students asked me to go to. I didn’t remember until I was at a little technology staff get together and several people weren’t able to be there on time because they were at little league games. I will have to e-mail and try to go to a different game. I felt like a big heal once I realized what I had done.

Dessert
Fill in the blank: I notice ____________ when _____________.
I notice that I miss my students when school gets out and they aren’t around anymore.

You can leave your Friday Feast leftovers in the comments.

Class dismissed!