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• February 19, 2010
• 15:10

  Carrying Extra Weight

   » ‎ Mark O'Meara: the blog

  The only thing I need to decide before this three-day hiking trip is about shoes. I have some basic Blunstone boots that I wear for work and some runners that I bought especially when I was walking the dog a lot a few years back. They are both comfortable and a good fit.

  If anyone reading has done proper hiking before, I’d be interested to know which shoes you think would be the better choice.

• 14:34

  Comment on Vice by mark

   » ‎ Comments for Mark O'Meara: the blog

  I am too cheap to buy them regularly when I can reuse poker chips.

• 13:40

  Comment on Vice by rad

   » ‎ Comments for Mark O'Meara: the blog

  what’s wrong with ye olde scratch n sniff stickers?

• 13:11

  HDMI Cabling

   » ‎ About a Boy
  All I know is that “HDMI” stands for “High Definition Media Interface” and a HDMI cable costs around $60. I didn’t know this this morning but John apparently ‘needs’ one so we bought one this morning. He’s hooked the laptop up to the TV with this and it does amazing things (that don’t appear to be [...]

• 11:53

  Comment on Vice by Fiona

   » ‎ Comments for Mark O'Meara: the blog

  LOL. Um, no. I don’t think associating poker chips with grammatical activities will encourage a love of gambling. I just don’t!

• 11:42

  Pizza Poisoning

   » ‎ About a Boy
  Just lately, I’ve been making quite some effort to get more organised with cooking. To this end, I made up a list of meal plans last week classified as “Week A”, “Week B”, “Week C” and “Week D” (as I said, I’m trying to get ‘organised’ as opposed to being ‘imaginative’.) So we were into “Week [...]

• 11:40

  Vice

   » ‎ Mark O'Meara: the blog

  The other week, I did an activity with one of my English classes where I wrote a sentence on the board and the explained it in as much detail as possible in terms of punctuation and grammar. For instance they might tell me that the first world starts with a capital letter because the first word in a sentence required a capital.

  I wanted to acknowledge their contributions in some way other than just verbally. I ended up giving them a blank sticky-note of a pad for each valid addition. This works reasonably well, and got me to thinking about what else I could use for this sort of activity.

  I mentioned this exercise to another teacher and mentioned that I was considering using plastic poker chips and collecting them at the end. They are so cheap that it wouldn’t matter if they odd kid held on to one. They are also nice and physical and can be thrown to a student.

  The teacher in question – I can’t actually remember who is was – told me this was a terrible idea since using poker chips for any purpose glamorises and encourages gambling.

  I am not so sure. What do you think?

• 11:08

  fatboycosmo: Reading: Little Jenny Wren: Free range cat http://littlejennywren.blogspot.com/2010/02/free-range-cat.html

   » ‎ Twitter / puppydeluxe
  fatboycosmo: Reading: Little Jenny Wren: Free range cat http://littlejennywren.blogspot.com/2010/02/free-range-cat.html

• February 18, 2010
• 22:00

  My Twaddle on Twitter for 2010-02-20

   » ‎ Mark O'Meara: the blog
  • Okay, I think I am finally on top of the Conway and Zygier pages, up to date with gigs and all nicely interlinking. I hope. #
  • I am genuinely surprised that there is not a full moon today. #

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• 18:46

  Rampant Consumerism

   » ‎ Mark O'Meara: the blog

  Leila pulled the spacebar off the keyboard on our old laptop and we couldn’t repair it. That didn’t particularly matter, because I used an external keyboard for that machine. So all was well, until the b key just stopped working every now and then. I could just read up and type p on the laptop keyboard and then go back to the external to keep typing (and using spaces), but this was a pretty clumsy process.

  So I splashed out $27 for a basic $27 Logitech keyboard from our local Dick Smith. They key layout is less spacious than I am used to, so I keep hitting the wrong keys when I am not watching my fingers. But, and this is a big thing, all the key work. I think it was worth the money.

• 18:11

  The Week That Was

   » ‎ Mark O'Meara: the blog

  Wow, that school week just flew by. There very some exciting moments and lots of enjoyable moment, too.

  I’d go into more details, but I am too stuffed. Sorry about that, interwebs.

• 16:23

  Ain’t technology wunnerful ?

   » ‎ David
  Yesterday morning in the small hours – 1.45am and 3.30am to be precise – I received text messages from a friend. Both text messages posed questions requiring answers so, in both cases, I woke up from a deep sleep and texted responses to the questions. I caught up with the sender of the [...]