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The Unexpected Pause
I didn’t mean to leave this site empty for so long. Unfortunately, I contracted COVID-19 and have been out of commission for nearly three weeks. I’m finally feeling better, and my struggles to summit this mountain of work are paying off. So it’s time to return to writing some interesting things from time to time.…
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Finally a Big Snowstorm in Queens
I don’t put a lot of personal stuff on here, but thought I might start doing some different kinds of posts to keep up the variety. You can of course blow past these if you are here to read my thoughts on education, debate, and rhetoric. We had a big Noreaster -biggest one in a…
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Abandoning Facebook, Instagram, and their Derivatives
Blue State Coffee Pour from Professor Steve Llano, Ph.D. on Vimeo. For the greater part of a year I put a short video like this one up every morning on my social media – mostly on Snapchat, since that’s what my students used at the time. They loved it and we’d talk about the different…
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Feeling Gratitude
But everywhere I goI see it all, I see it all‘Cause everywhere I go I can’t even hide my loveI see it all, I see it allBut everywhere I goI see it all I see it all Everywhere I go by ALPHA 9 It’s been a couple of years since I put my debate program…
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First Day of Summer
It’s coming up on the first official day of summer. So what have I been doing since April? Reading I really enjoy the blogosphere these days. And my Kindle. And the library. Ok, well since I don’t have much of a regular schedule, I can sit down and read whenever I wish. It’s a bit…
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Tokyo So Far
So far it’s been a great trip here in Tokyo. Although the temperature has been really hot (90+) we are having a great time. The flight over wasn’t as boring as I thought, but I had Monster Hunter 2 to play on my PSP. I really suck at video games the older I get. Once…
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A Brief Break at Home
Coming home after 3 weeks away is very nice. I’m sitting here catching up on bad TV and going through some of my mail and stuff like that. The end of a debate workshop is always pretty surreal and somewhat sad, but it’s also a nice marker for me that the next debate season is…
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WDI part 2
The World’s workshop started yesterday and it appears that we have around 25-30 students involved. The first day wasn’t just housekeeping matters and such – we managed to get right into the material and had a very nice practice debate on the motion "This House would ban consumption of tobacco products." The round I saw…
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Uneventful
Went to Target and the mall today, not much happened. Wrote a bunch this morning, so that was good. I downloaded a bunch of songs last night, some for Kelly and some for me. Tonight I really don’t want to write anything. Hence this very off-topic post. I tried to get started on my extended…
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