soder up!

I wish I could take the credit for all of these photos, but it would be a lie. These were a collective effort between Dogga, Matty and I ... up with ridiculously silly, fun, team-building games for the “kids” to play. I don't know if we achieved team-building, but it sure was fun.Last night, we were brainstorming for ideas as to what to do today [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 01:43:00

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Forrester: Serious Games Uncover Serious Requirements

Forrester In a 19-Nov-08 report called “Serious Games Uncover Serious Requirements, ... allowed for fresh perspectives and new ideas” and “the game provided a team-building exercise ... , partners, and internal stakeholders to make product decisions. Not only are the games relatively [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 17:57:14

Setting up a training event

When you are setting up a workshop, business coaches will tell you that it is important everyone knows exactly what the exercise is all about and ... exercises or games to develop what they perceive as weak points within their particular team ... of encouraging and developing team building. However it is a good idea at some point to mix [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 17:09:25

Club K&J Digest – September 2008

Here’s an overview of the latest stuff available exclusively for Club K&J members ... ; JASON TV Game Breaks: If you have a job where time stands still or would like some ideas for building team spirit, you’ll find this simple tip to be especially helpful. PSA: Office Clutter [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 16:18:49

some things i learned in seattle

- 30% of homeless men in Seattle (and apparently this holds true nation-wide) are military veterans. (I had no idea ... facility in North America"... a building that is used 7 days per year... 7 "home games" for the Seattle Seahawks football team... ... a few more minutes to take advantage of the free wireless [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 23:10:00

“The Game of Life” Start your own coaching

Have you ever been a coach to a neighborhood team? I know how it feels the first time I’ve coached a team of seven-year-old soccer kids and how much ... . There is a WHOLE lot of talk these days about Corporate Team Building. There are many, many options ... into a team worthy of belonging. A little later I will give you some ideas of where [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 01:45:10

Relearning the fundamentals

I love improv, partly because every time I take part in an improv game, I learn things. And very often, that's a relearning of some fundamentals ... like "Let's set it in Germany!" we just rush to "And let's wear lederhosen". Building ideas is fine ... in London. Towards the end we played a game I've done before a few times. A small team has to play [more...]

Date: 2009-03-01 11:06:40

Full Moon 21Can02 Jan 10, 2009

At 10:26:42 pm est on Jan 10, 2009, a Full Moon *21Can02 shines over the Capitol Building in Washington, DC - and elsewhere as well ... senators get seated and Team Obama can successfully implement the good ideas they're promising ... out of exalted ego games. That would be cheeky monkey of them - and unacceptable - to follow their old pattern [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 14:50:00

Gift Ideas for the Whole Family

Buying a joint gift is a great way to encourage families to spend more time together and equally importantly save you a bit of money ... the best way to play together as a team in an unforgettably fun game that gives everyone a chance to shine. Packed with 16 hilarious activities, Cranium Family Fun gets you building, flipping, sketching [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 20:52:24

Vikings Complete the Chicago Sweep Holding Off Loyola 83-70

The Cleveland State Vikings knew they had to win both games in their road trip to Chicago and took care of business ... to be the superior team playing steady basketball and building a double digit advantage throughout ... afternoon for Gary Water's men. The Loyola Ramblers 4-9 (12-13), however, had other ideas and fought [more...]

Date: 2009-02-07 23:12:42

บทสัมภาษณ์ล่าสุดและสแกนบางส่วนจาก Dissidia Ultimania

เว็บไซท์ The Lifestrem ได้ทำการสแกนและแปลเนื้อหาในหนังสือ Dissidia -Final Fantasy- Ultimania บางส่วนมาให้รับชมกันแล้ว ... could grow – Just as many titles have been started in the past based on your ideas, I’ve heard that the Dissidia project was another that began as one of your ideas. What kind of idea [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 10:21:22

Long weekend, long post

On the way home from work on Friday I stopped at Sam’s for some of our bulk items, just like I do every other week.  Typically my shopping trips at Sam’s end in similar way, I am checked out by an individual that has as much personality and energy as a storm drain.  This time was different.  My clerk was a thin lanky Hispanic guy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 15:41:13

Ten sci-fi devices that could soon be in your hands

From News ScientistCast your mind back 30 years, if you are old enough, and you may just remember a rather humdrum, though retrospectively momentous, ... Consultants in the UK announced they had built a briefcase-sized system called the Prism 200 which ... for returning echoes.According to the company, these pulses can pass through building materials over [more...]

Date: 2009-01-29 19:38:16

Ten sci-fi devices that could soon be in your hands

From News ScientistCast your mind back 30 years, if you are old enough, and you may just remember a rather humdrum, though retrospectively momentous, ... Consultants in the UK announced they had built a briefcase-sized system called the Prism 200 which ... for returning echoes.According to the company, these pulses can pass through building materials over [more...]

Date: 2009-01-29 19:41:07

Blocking, Tackling & Running: Leveraging a Crisis Into Real Change

There's a fairly well known cartoon of two scientists working out a problem on a chalkboard covered with complex equations and down in the corner is a little circle with the key step inserted in small print - "and then a miracle occurs". Wouldn't it be nice if we could take the same short-cut to fixing the horrendous shopping list of significant [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 20:07:11

Live Chat with Garth

We’re still set to link up with Garth at about 12:00 p.m. MT, so stay tuned. Feel free to start shooting questions our way in this thread now ( ... man? GL: Luis is on trial and is working hard to regain his fitness after not getting many games in the past year. From: Taylor F. What can we expect this season, as far as how well the team [more...]

Date: 2009-02-13 18:29:14

Hope

Obama will have a word with Congress in a few hours, and we’ll peek in — it’s touted as a mini-State of the Nation speech. Talking heads are signaling that they think it will be Reagan-esque — i.e., somber but inspiring us forward. Which got me thinking about Ron — what always comes up in my brain is a collage of the 70s … Muskrat Love and all [more...]

Date: 2009-02-24 22:40:16

Is the 30th anniversary of the first MUD important?

(because that was yesterday, you know) Richard Bartle concludes that, in the great scheme of things (and much as it might nice to think otherwise) ... out and improved upon - all of which is very helpful when designing, building, or operating new games ... s a chance to celebrate some UK-based breakthrough in computer games (what else do we have - GTA [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 09:12:06

Least Restrictive Environment Anxiety Attack

I just cracked open a beer. Not in celebration, my friends. I'm not quite to the point that there are tears in my beer quite yet ( ... classroom. I've been fighting for this transition for about a year now, and it's finally happening ... of 2006. We're moving him to a self-contained classroom inside of a typical elementary school. He'll [more...]

Date: 2009-02-12 02:37:30

Knowledge matters

It is fashionable in certain circles to argue that, particularly, for subjects such as mathematics that have a strong logical and deductive component, ... to learn the common facts and ideas that could be applied to new problems. Thus, a large part ... patterns, and seeing whether the same ideas could be expressed in greater generality. Rather than [more...]

Date: 2009-02-13 15:59:45

Preschool Teaching

  Teachers—Preschool, Kindergarten, Elementary Significant Points Public school teachers must be ... adults. Teachers act as facilitators 1 or coaches 2 , using classroom ... tests; listen to oral presentations; and maintain classroom discipline. Teachers observe and evaluate [more...]

Date: 2009-02-20 08:33:40

100 Reasons

Wow! It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything on my website worth mentioning to both of my loyal readers, and no person really has given me more crap about it than my lovely girlfriend Eileen. “When am I going to get a shout out on your webpage?!” she has asked on multiple occasions. In due time miss… in due time [more...]

Date: 2009-02-13 00:29:08

Loose Lips Daily: Media-Council Hoops Showdown Today!

As much local politics as humanly possible. Send your tips, releases, stories, events, etc. to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com ... Michelle Rhee’s Schedule “; “ Conservative Catfight Over DeMint Quote ” Morning all, and here’ ... , unilaterally changed the team name from “Damn Media” to something involving the word “hoopsters.” [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 15:39:37

City of Ember: Searching The Smoldering Embers - Film Review

Saw was something of a novelty, introducing a relatively unique twist on the stale serial killer genre with a genuinely uncomfortable conceit – the placing of characters in the center of macabre traps where a moral, ethical, or sometimes merely brutal choice is required to survive. We could have done with less melodramatic serial killer shtick ( [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 20:09:12

Yay Me !

I don't write about work as it would soon take over this blog and that's not what this is about. But I do have to toot my own horn because...well.. ... that resembles football games, with blocking and diversion a big part of it.) Individual day parts ... the stations to advertisers. So when the sales team are shaking your hand, slapping you on the back [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 11:11:00

Worldchanging’s Best Foreign Correspondents

This article was written by Alex Steffen in December 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. We have a global network of writers, but a handful of them are regular columnists and contributors. For instance, Mara has done a great job as Worldchanging's China correspondent, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 20:09:58

Think Big with Bonus Rooms

NARI can provide hi-res digital before and after photos of award-winning remodeling projects to accompany your story. Contact marketing@nari ... looking for a room to house your extensive book collection, watch movies, exercise, play games ... and how many activities they will do in there.?A place for meditation            Bonus rooms [more...]

Date: 2009-03-09 02:00:39

All About Boyce: Your Questions Answered

Hey peeps!Some of you may wonder why I do the things I do and say what I say. So, I thought I would make myself an open book so you can understand a bit more about where I come from, and the nature of my world view. In spite of conspiracy theories stating that I get paid to say certain things or have some evil plot to create a new world order, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 05:45:00

Make A Difference And Click For A Change

I discovered Clickforachange.com on Twitter and was immediately captivated by their idea of “Play free online games and support charities ... . There are a good number of games available on the website and the team have been happy to seek out specific types of games upon request. To help them in their cause I am delighted to present this guest post [more...]

Date: 2009-02-26 16:01:58

Memories a bit of Fun

This was originally posted on Tania's blog, and I thought so much of this was so true. This is originally from Australia, in case you were wondering ... hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot ... not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 05:02:00

Worldchanging's Best Foreign Correspondents

This article was written by Alex Steffen in December 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. We have a global network of writers, but a handful of them are regular columnists and contributors. For instance, Mara has done a great job as Worldchanging's China correspondent, [more...]

Date: 2008-09-25 20:09:58

Weekend Chat Line..."How did we ever survive?"

...Elsie... Commissioned Portrait __________________________________ Times have been so stressful lately with the economy, the elections, ... when the streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all day...and we were OK. We would spend hours building ... have Playstations, Nintendo's and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 05:34:00

HOUSTON ASTROS - ALL TIME HOME GROWN TEAM vs. ALL TIME ACQUIRED TEAM

Man, I'm not even a 1/3 of the way through these teams!These take a lot of energy to write, but there is no rest for the weary...Let's move on! ... were a team of the future!Their name referred to space travel... which is very futuristic.They played ... to have line drive power with speed rather than big home run hitters. They were building an off beat [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 17:59:00

CarsToons!

Want to see what I've been up to for the past 9 months? It means you'll have to watch the Toon Disney channel (but you do that anyway, right?) ... Jones and his wonderful Warner Brothers shorts. For me (and my team as well, I hope!) these were a lot ... of John Lasseter, and we were also free to add in our own ideas and really run the production [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 00:47:54

KidSports - Big Fun, Build Skills with New T-Ball

Editor’s Note: Good Morning! It may be still be Winter, but all signs point to sunshine and outside fun - including T-BALL REGISTRATION, ... players on a team, more focus on skills, community and sportsmanship - all in the name of giving kids ... programs in the Valley and give you some extra tools to make sure that sports and healthy activities [more...]

Date: 2009-02-13 06:53:10

THE CHAMPION SPEED SHOP’S TOP FUEL WORMHOLE

A Concentric History of the World’s Quickest and Fastest Chevy on Nitro… “Man from outer space or man trying to ... phenomenon of the Champion Speed Shop AA/Fuel Dragster, a race team and machine that has torn a hole ... front-motored fueler. (To ratchet up the Champion team’s claim to utter domination, “Swingin’ [more...]

Date: 2009-03-02 06:34:26

We Care a Lot Part 4: Father of the Year

Um… let’s not make eye-contact. Just move on. To bring us up to speed, Venom left his life in San Francisco as a Lethal Protector to the secret underground city behind so he could visit New York City and throw down with Carnage. Carnage was already taken care of, so Venom fought the newly-christened Scarlet Spider, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 04:20:42

"He plays a game"

What does is provide an incentive for people to develop new software and ideas for collaborative production. Many of those ideas will translate to other group activities, including those within the business ... , President-elect Obama's co-chair his FCC transition team. A few days ago I asked readers if anyone [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 21:42:09

Media Musts To Wrap Up “All Things Girl” Week (Part One)

To whittle down to a handful of ‘media musts’ for our grand finale of ‘All Things Girl’ week has been hard, so I’m going to try to shine the spotlight on some lesser known, deserving Offerings and invitations to be a part of some incredible communities taking steps toward the vision of self-actualization, hope, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 23:44:06

Wade and Watkins: A study in contrasts

  Crain Watkins                                 Henry Wade I was a bit nervous when I learned that the Dallas-based D-Magazine had just published a feature length article on Craig Watkins the Dallas County District Attorney.   D-Magazine made a valiant attempt to flip the Tulia script  while the City of Amarillo was paying out $4 [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 15:19:39

Youth Flag Football Coaching 101

by Coach Taylor Use our tips below to make this season a success whether you have been roped into coaching your sons football league for the first ... and games it will infect your team and keep everyone wanting to participate. A Positive Attitude ... , watching football games on TV and talking to more experienced coaches. Building Character [more...]

Date: 2009-03-05 19:06:05

The Final Nails

Wow. Don't blog for a while and see what happens. The Cardinals had been able to fool themselves that they were on the fringes of a wild-card race ... Pineiro. Seven runs in four plus innings? Notes: If you ever wondered about whether this team was in decline, having a beatdown put on you by a team that hasn't been able to score since the trading [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 14:09:20

Outside the box: Mike and Ann Eisenberg and Craft Technology

Early last month, Mike Eisenberg presented a colloquium entitled Rethinking Educational Technology: Some Early Steps ... about possibilites for Columbine's new building. Here are a few of the important ideas I took away from his talk ... ? These ideas are all good, he says, but secondary. Many kids are simply not motivated by this stuff [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 05:45:54

The Virgin Read: Thankfully, Smart People Are Handling Her 2008 Round-Up Questions

Nina Stone started off this year with a different last name, a cursory understanding of comics and a non-existent history with blogs, and now that the year is days from ending, The Factual Opinion is proud to present her thoughts on a year in trying to get a better sense of a hobby only slightly less popular than model train sets [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 22:11:54

For Those Born Before 1986

According to today’s regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 60’s, 70’s and early 80’s probably shouldn’t have survived, ... hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find ... , no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones [more...]

Date: 2009-03-06 22:15:16

The Gamers Pub “Left 4 Dead” Review

Any time anyone mentions the word Zombie in a video game I automatically scream like a giddy school girl, so is it any surprise that I am forewarning you readers that my Left for Dead (or L4D cause its shorter to write) mayyy be a tad bit biased? Ever since that fine day in 2007 that this game was announced for the PC I have been clamoring to [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 16:37:56

● 21 Feb 09 - LSL Mentorship Workshop

traffic jam GAME:D If you have been following our earlier posts, on the 21st of February 2009, Project GREASE was involved in two major events ... to be peer mentors of a Sec 2 Service Learning team, in hope they will be able to continue ... (8am=wee hours of the day, as far as us angsty teens are concerned!). After which, all participants [more...]

Date: 2009-02-24 04:25:37

J’accuse: Thinkaboutit! (Tech-no-log-ic)

This article and accompanying bertoon appear in today’s Malta Independent on Sunday. Nordic (Buy it, use it, break it, fix it)The fish shaped island with an almost insignificant population had weathered more than one storm in its centuries old history. Discoverers had passed through it on their way to other continents linking the old and the new [more...]

Date: 2009-01-24 23:13:49

All of your questions answered - Where I truly stand

Brought to you by GreatBlackSpeakers.com - The Top Black Speakers Bureau in the world.To join the Dr. Boyce Money Advice List, please click here.Hey peeps!Some of you may wonder why I do the things I do and say what I say. So, I thought I would make myself an open book so you can understand a bit more about where I come from, [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 15:39:00

Oh my god!

They just bumped off Craig Valentine! Unbelievable! Today’s pick-me-up email forward (thanks S!) ... us all day. And we were O.K. We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride ... games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape or DVD movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 08:04:31

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