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The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
Which Weeds Are Getting Whacked?
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My wife took a look at out neighbor's freshly mowed lawn and asked an excellent question: Are dandelions being selected for-- are they s...
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How To Use The New Explosions In The Sky Album
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Get up early, don some big old-school headphones, put on "Take Care, Take Care, Take Care" and wander around the park before anyo...
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Another Free Idea . . . And I Did The Hard Part
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So our on-line digital experience is becoming more and more concise; web-pages are difficult to wade through, blogs have consolidated some o...
The Black Swan: Happy Mother's Day
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My review of The Black Swan is appropriately schizophrenic-- I watched the movie in two parts and I found the first hour grueling and pain...
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The Last of the Dialers?
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I can still recall the home phone number of a few of my childhood friends (several days ago, my wife needed to call the father of one of my ...
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More Difficult Than Fermat's Last Theorem
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How do you get all of the tomato paste out of the little can?
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Quora!
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So I'm thinking of writing an epic science-fiction novel that is set in a number of giant self-sustaining bio-dome type structures dott...
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Am I An Umbrellist?
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Yesterday morning was rainy, and one of my male students proudly showed everyone his Sesame Street umbrella -- which I found shocking, as ...
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Watch Your Language
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Last week, during the annual Poetry Festival at my high school, acclaimed poet BJ Ward spoke to my creative writing class about being sens...
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Breaking News! Bin Laden Will Cause Baby Boom!
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Mark my words, the death of Osama Bin Laden will cause a mini-baby boom in the United States . . . hearing the story of the triumphant Bl...
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A Useful Analogy (Hindsight is 20/20)
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Ha-Joon Chang, in his book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism , makes a case for increased government regulation of the fina...
Survival in the Busch
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Despite a perfect storm of things that annoy me: crowds, lines, motion sickness, lack of food . . . I survived our first day in a real amus...
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A Vacation Highlight
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After a day at Jamestown, a day at Yorktown, and several days in Colonial Williamsburg (we definitely witnessed 10-12 hours of historical r...
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One of These Pictures Has Nothing To Do With Brisket
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So I learned some valuable gastronomical information on our family vacation at Colonial Williamsburg; a colonial farmer on The Palace Green...
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Several Monumental Firsts
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Catherine told me she "didn't like me very much" the night before we left for Spring Break, for an odd reason . . . because I ...
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Those Chauvinist Pixar Bastards
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My creative writing students were naming kids movies and then suggesting appropriate morals for each film-- practicing their inductive reas...
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George R.R. Martin: Fantasy Without Whimsy
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For the second time in as many months, I took on a novel with two things I despise-- a map and an appendix -- but George R.R. Martin's ...
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Tetris to Impress
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For the second time in my life, I have impressed my children : I completed the most difficult level (9.5) on Gameboy Tetris so the boys cou...
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Nuts Sparring By The Fire
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The charming Hotel Vienna of Windham, New York boasts a lovely breakfast room where they serve fresh baked cheese and raspberry danishes an...
How Smooth Is Smoov?
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On the walk home from a very late night out, which began at the Stress Factory in New Brunswick, where we watched JB Smoov of Larry David f...
This Could Be The Idea That Allows You To Retire in Style
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This weird hair discussion at G:TB reminds me of an idea a friend and I had about making a documentary where we interviewed people about th...
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Small Pleasures
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There's a certain joy in kicking a ball-- it's a similar pleasure to throwing something and hitting the thing you wanted-- but there...
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I Am Put In My Place
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For a Friday diversion, I like to create a "Life Quiz" for my students: ten general knowledge questions that I think they should ...
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Zombie Priorities
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If you haven't seen the AMC series The Walking Dead, then by all means do so-- it's not just about zombies, in fact, the zombie go...
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You Learn Something New Every Day
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So I always assumed that everyone who has seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail finds the film at least moderately funny, but this is not tru...
I Can See Why People Are Pissed But . . .
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Ha Joon Chang, in his book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism , explains how in a quest to curb inflation, the free market p...
Overwhelmed By Sand
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After a recommendation from a friend, I started in on a novel that has the four elements that I generally can't stomach: 1) a map 2) an...
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I Had My Reasons (They Just Don't Make Sense)
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I was nervous all day Tuesday, my mind turning over the possibility that my 1993 Jeep Cherokee would not pass inspection and I would finall...
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Proud Parent
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So Ian is taking art lessons from an artist up the street, and she's been quite impressed with his work-- he's the opposite of his o...
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The Exception
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As a rule, I never lick anything that been sitting in my shed (mice live in there) but, if a soccer ball or basketball needs air, I don'...
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Just A Hypothesis
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We all know the idea of a gateway drug-- some habit forming substance that might possibly lead to addiction to a harder drug-- but I pose th...
The World Will Never Know
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I wonder what kinds of fantastic and creative ideas I would come up with if my consciousness was not constantly being interrupted by my chi...
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For Once In My Life, I'd Love To Be On The Inside
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The first half of Charles Ferguson's documentary Inside Job is a clear review of the causes of the 2008 global financial crisis-- th...
Costanza-esque
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I don't know about you, but when I say, "I'm really hungry, does anyone have any food?" and a colleague says, "Oh n...
An Analysis of My Netflix Queue
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My Netflix queue has swollen to 233 films, and though I'm never going to view these films, they do reveal quite a bit about about my hop...
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I Am A Bad-ass
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I was going to take my kids to the pet store and let them each choose a fish for our new fish tank , but they get into a fist-fight while ge...
The Giving Ski
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I was gung-ho on teaching my two boys to ski this season (for purely selfish reasons . . . I love to snowboard and this gives me an excuse ...
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Humble Buffet
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I shouldn't be reading heralded economist Ha-Joon Chang's book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism , because I'm...
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I May Have Given These Words of Wisdom to My Students
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The difficult thing about family vacations is that you're out in public, so you can't hit your kids.
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You Make The Call
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The United States spends 1.1 percent of the budget on foreign aid, the lowest percentage of any wealthy country besides South Korea . . . ye...
Olfactory Query
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My five year old son Ian asked a fair question last week: "Can you smell over the phone?" and-- considering the smell of most peop...
El Cambio es Bueno
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Hola, mi nombre es Juan, y aquí es una frase excelente para que usted pueda disfrutar, y me gustaría dar las gracias a David por la extern...
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In Afghanistan, Happiness is a Warm Poppy
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Eric Weiner's book The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World won't give you any definiti...
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Saxondale: A Show To Watch When Your Wife Goes Out
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As a rule, I never watch television alone (unless it's a sporting event, because then I feel like I'm with the crowd at the event) b...
Best Intentions
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When I first started teaching, I thought I was going to be one of those teachers who rewarded kids with candy, and so I bought a bag of Hers...
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Literary Psychoanalysis
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I am more like Hamlet and my wife is more like Fortinbras . . . and this works out well.
Are You An Orchid or a Dandelion?
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The most powerful essay in The Best American Science Writing of 2010 is called "The Orchid Children," and the author, David Dobb...
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It's Really Hard To Eradicate Weeds
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The sixth season of Weeds will grow on you, unlike the previous season, where the show nearly withered and died-- it's a return to it...
People Ruin Everything
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More from The Best American Science Writing of 2010 : Elizabeth Kolbert, in her essay "The Sixth Extinction?" points out that whe...
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Did Banksy Create Rebecca Black?
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Despite writing this blog, I remain fairly isolated from what's being passed around on the internet-- and I'm sad to report that I...
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The Influence of Digital Media on My Caloric Intake
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On the rare occasion that we eat at my favorite Mexican restaurant-- Tortuga's Mexican Village in Princeton-- I usually order a tamale a...
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Sometimes, You've Got To Do What You've Got To Do (Despite the Stupid Name)
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I put it off for a week, because it's absurd and embarrassing and it has a stupid name and nothing feels more foolish, but in the end, ...
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The Bright Side
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If you believe Hugh Everett's "many worlds interpretation" of quantum physics , then you believe there are an infinite number ...
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Test Your Child For The ACTN3 Gene and Muscle Type!
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Steven Pinker, in his essay "My Genome, My Self," explains that many of the "dystopian fears" raised by personal genome ...
Does This Guy Look 80% Bald?
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I'm wading through The Best American Science Writing of 2010 and overarching theme of the collection is this: things are complicated ...
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My Vegetable Love Should Grow Vaster Than Empires
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The prices at the vegetable market on Route 1 are better than the prices at Stop and Shop , but you have to be more discerning with your se...
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All Searches Lead to the Sentence of Dave
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Here are some of the Google search entries that led people to this humble little corner of the internet: emo, giant wasps, japanese emo, te...
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Instant Fish
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There are certain things you shouldn't buy used-- condoms, fuzzy toilet seat covers, handkerchiefs, and enema kits-- but as for everythi...
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A Question Most Americans Are Afraid To Ask
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How many plastic cups does a family of four actually need?-- and I am guessing the answer is NOT twenty-nine, which is how many we have . ....
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Seven For Seven
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Although it might be a bit early to invite a comparison to the greatest streak in professional sporting history-- Joe DiMaggio's magnifi...
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More Alan Moore
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Although I couldn't make it through Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , I loved The Saga of the Swamp Thing . . ...
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Brevity is a Warm Gun
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If you like your assassins hot and your hookers hotter, then The American is the film for you.
Highland Park's Charter School Controversy Goes National
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Wednesday, The New York Times printed an article called "The Promise and Costs of Charters," which focuses on the Hebrew languag...
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American Dreaming
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American Dreaming by The Density I have often expressed my disdain for dreams and their significance , but when I opened my mind t...
The Town is Riddled With Holes
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You may have looked at the title of this post and thought to yourself, That's a mixed metaphor and doesn't make much sense, and if...
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Gut Reaction (Another Awkward Moment of Dave)
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In no way do I mean to belittle this awful, tragic story, but when a colleague (young and female) pulled this headline up on the computer ...
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41 Candles
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It's become de rigeur in my family to forget to wish me "Happy Birthday" on the morning of . . . as my son's birthday is t...
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I'd Like To Have My Face Digitally Scrubbed
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There is an obvious irony to The Social Network : the guy who created the modern template for friendship doesn't really have any friend...
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V For Paranoia
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When I read Alan Moore's Watchmen , I thought to myself: I should write the script for a graphic novel, it would be awesome if someone ...
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Treading Water in the Shallows
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Nicholas Carr's new book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brain is well argued and frightening, and the opposition from...
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Tacos Trump Enchiladas
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My wife suggested enchiladas for my birthday meal and I agreed heartily, but then she asked, "Do enchiladas count as tacos?" and I...
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34 Years To Go! (For An Average American Male)
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Today is my birthday, me and the Seuss -- I'm now forty-one, and still feeling loose, but if life is a train, I'm near the cab...
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Who Is The Biggest Loser?
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At work, a number of my colleagues are participating in a Biggest Loser Diet Contest-- they all put money into a pot and the person that l...
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