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The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
Serendipitous Student Connection #3 (Poison/ Needle/ Mick Jagger Knitting)
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My students have been on a roll lately-- I've been teaching for nearly twenty years, and I thought I had heard it all-- but apparently ...
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Serendipitous Student Connections #2 (Prank/ Revenge/ Merchant of Venice)
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If you're a regular reader, then you are probably acquainted with my new recurring feature ( Serendipitous Student Connections ) but don...
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You're Getting Warmer
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Some farcical conversation with my son Alex about what the Ark of the Covenant contains in the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark : Alex : It ...
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A Good Way To Spend All Hallow's Eve
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After several hours of trick-or-treating in the cold with my kids, I retired to my bed to read Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's graphic...
Serendipitous Student Connection #1 (Moth/ Snow/ Wife)
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Sometimes a student says something so incisive that it completely changes the direction of a class discussion, and even the tone of an enti...
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Non-stalgia
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If you haven't seen Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in a while, you've probably forgotten just how annoying Kate Capshaw is-- ...
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I Uncover the Roots of My Ennui (And Use Other Annoying Words)
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I know how obnoxious it is to complain, and I also know how obnoxious it is to use the word ennui (it's almost as obnoxious as using t...
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Halloweenies
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Just when I thought my kids were smart-- as they both received glowing academic reviews from their teachers at parent/teacher conferences--...
One Movie: Three Ratings
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I loved watching Steve Coogan's new road movie, The Trip, but it's tough for me to recommend it to anyone other than Steve Coogan ...
Music Cures The Existential Blues
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As I sit here grading papers and listening to Grant Green, I realize that my Jeep's broken car stereo-- which has not worked for severa...
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What Balls May Come?
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Some miracles bite you in the ass-- such as Moses parting the Red Sea or the Bills starting the season at 4 and 2 -- but others require a m...
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Remembering Louie
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Morning darkness, loads of essays, plantar fasciitis , weariness from coaching soccer, and general ennui with the constant routine were get...
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The Case of The Returned Kite
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A reverse-mystery story for your reading pleasure: two Saturdays ago, which was as blustery a day as they come, my kids and I went down to t...
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Dave Gives His Permission For You To Proceed
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with screwing off the shaker top of a canister of rainbow jimmies and chugging a mouthful (or two).
Click-Olympics
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Stacy introduced the English department to an engaging new game Friday afternoon; here's how it works: 1) everyone needs their own com...
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Bossypants
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Tina Fey's book Bossypants is exactly like an episode of 30 Rock . . . fast-paced, full of clever jokes, and over before you know it ...
If A Tree Falls, Marshall Curry Will Get the Shot . . . And Interview Everyone Who Saw It Fall
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Once again, Marshall Curry has documented a fantastic story , covering all the angles in an even-handed and comprehensive manner in under n...
I Am A Hero (Sort Of)
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My neighbor called me the other day because her baby daughter had an engorged deer tick stuck to her head, and she wanted my help in removi...
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Film Buff
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My wife and I were walking up the stairs, to put the kids to bed, when we heard a civilized discussion emanating from the bathroom-- and th...
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I Corrupt My Six Year Old Son
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My son Ian wants in on the Taco Count -- and though I realize this is no way to encourage healthy eating habits, I can't proscribe him ...
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Retraction (Yogi Berra is NOT Dead)
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Yesterday, in a cascade of self-referential meta-madness, I explained that it is very difficult to consciously create an adage in the style...
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Katie vs. Yogi
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I have praised the laconic anti-wit of Yogi Berra , and I even tried to invent my own Yogi Berra-esque adage -- and I learned that it's...
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Patience and Saliva
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I swam at lunch on Monday-- we had a workshop, so no students all day-- and on the way back to school I stopped to pick up lunch, and though...
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Genre Definitions (Back By Popular Demand)
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One of the exciting recurring features here at Sentence of Dave is called: "Dave Defines Science Fiction," and though I'd be ...
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Do You Understand BitCoin?
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I learned about BitCoin in a pathetically analogue way (a hard copy of the October New Yorker 's "Money Issue" ) and though I...
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Mesomorphic
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As I grow older, my figure more and more resembles that of the late Kirby Puckett.
A Harsh Dictum
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When I mentioned that I might start wearing sleeveless t-shirts (because I'm always hot) my wife said that she would not be seen with m...
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Please Tell Me Your Kids Do This
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Saturday, we went for ice cream after Alex's soccer game, and while we were waiting for the lady to scoop the cones, Alex, who is seven ...
If You're Angry and You Know it Clap Your Hands
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I've read a few books on the current economic crisis and watched the documentary Inside Job , and while these works explained the com...
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A Good Rule To Know
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My son Alex told me that at school last week, he had to write a safety rule on a star shaped piece of paper, and that the teacher then put a...
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A Joke That Doubles As An IQ Test
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Here is something fun and annoying to do to your friends: explain that you are about to tell a joke, but that the joke also doubles as test ...
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Synco-what?
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Though I pride myself on my large vocabulary, I've had my troubles recently . . . and now I'm faced with writing the most difficult...
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Death Be Not Proud of A Turtle
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The boys and I took a trip to Sandy Hook last Thursday, and despite the rain, poison ivy and mosquitoes, we had a good time, especially out ...
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One Thing At A Time
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When trying to improve at a sport, it's best to focus on one skill at a time: in the heat of competition it's near impossible to rem...
Bite Me?
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Last week during first period, one of my students announced that she had successfully passed her Road Test and was now the proud owner of a ...
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A Contradiction So Bottomless That Even Dave Cannot Resolve It
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I love the television show Community and I love claymation . . . but I hate the claymation episode of Community .
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Thanks Dan
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Lately, I've been obsessed with the TV show Community . . . it's a sitcom satirizing traditional TV Tropes (and if you haven't...
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Asymmetrical Asynchronous Control
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My parents have a pinball machine in their basement, and my Dad was impressed that my son Ian could use the flippers independently-- appar...
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Dave's Second Best Idea Ever!
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Fans of this blog may recall Dave's Best Idea Ever , and might even be familiar with some of Dave's Bad Ideas , and so-- because D...
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A Sight Gag Just For You
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You might recall that I permanently damaged my iPod while swimming with it in a waterproof case called an Otterbox-- but I was lucky enough...
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The Rise And Fall of North Eastern Fall
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Some folks love the smell of napalm in the morning, but not me-- I love the smell of decaying fungus in the morning . . . last Sunday morni...
Where's The Beef . . . From?
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Here at Sentence of Dave, the staff occasionally provides more than the usual drivel, and this is one of those occasions; in the past, I rev...
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Yin and Yang
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I stayed out far too late at the Park Pub on Thursday night, and was suffering at school the next day-- and I knew I had a long afternoon i...
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Vocabulary Woes . . .
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Friday afternoon, Liz was scrambling to make photo-copies in the English office, but the machine was jammed, and so I gallantly offered to w...
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A Sporting Paradox
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I've been reading Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Eve...
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Another Movie
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If you're single, self-indulgent, past your prime, seeking love, and drink too much, then you'll really dig Mike Leigh's new mo...
Even Subjective Questions Can Have Wrong Answers
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My Shakespeare class was asking me a number of questions about how Shakespeare's plays were enacted in Elizabethan times, and while I h...
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A Question of Curd
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My wife took a bite of her salad Sunday night and instantly decided that the bleu cheese had gone bad, but-- despite the fact that she has ...
Dish Washing Corollary #245
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My wife has often corrected my method of loading the dishwasher-- apparently I don't categorize and group like items, and as a result I...
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I'm Still Waiting . . .
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Still no apology for The Potato Chip Incident (and while I'm on the subject, still no apology from my neighbors for the Out of Control...
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I'm Waiting . . .
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Still no apology for The Potato Chip Incident (obviously the author of the offending e-mail is neither familiar with the experiments of Dan...
The Potato Chip Incident
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I ran the 8th grade soccer try-outs last week, and it was a stressful time both for me and for the forty-three prospective players that I ...
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Dave's Radical New Diet!
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Diet Tip #2 : here is the best way to avoid snacking at night . . . once you finish your dinner, go straight to sleep.
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My Big Chance To Earn A Darwin Award!
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I can't wait for the cold weather to arrive-- and not just for my usual reasons -- I also have some evidence there might be a wasp's...
How Do You Not Be "That Parent"?
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I am finding it extremely difficult to watch my son Alex's travel team soccer games without "coaching" from the sidelines . . ...
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My Wife Is A Terrible Alcoholic
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My wife is not a raging alcoholic (and I am thankful for this) but she is an awful alcoholic . . . around dinner time she often opens a bee...
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A Psychological Question
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I am an introvert and-- for me-- being around people is like drinking alcohol: an initial sugar rush, loss of inhibitions, and the usual gi...
A Very Special Episode of Sentence of Dave
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In memoriam of the Ten Year Anniversary of 9/11, I'd like to postulate a theory about a fraternity brother and rugby teammate of mine th...
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Coming Delusions
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Once again, I am contemplating writing a novel -- but I'm not going to reveal too much about the plot, because I don't want to get ...
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Frankly Sookie, I Don't Give A Fang
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It's been a summer of True Blood , and while I love the show-- cheesiness and all-- I could care less about Sookie and Bill's tumul...
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I Burst A Metaphorical Balloon (Only to See It Inflated By A Kinder Soul)
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The Annual Labor Day Rutgers Pool balloon toss ended in a draw, because all the remaining competitors' balloons burst on the final throw...
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I'm Back, Back in the Sisyphean Groove
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The futility of reality has rudely interrupted my idyllic summer: after bailing Hurricane Irene induced sewer water from 2 AM until 7AM, w...
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The Waitresses Do NOT KNow What Boys Like (But I Do)
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I wish my boys liked getting lost in a good book on a hot summer afternoon, but that's not the case . . . and The Waitresses have got i...
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This Is Different Than It Sounds (Not That There's Anything Wrong With That)
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The other night at the Park Pub, one of our regular gang tried to explain what was going to happen at the Rutgers Pool on Labor Day Weeken...
Individuals Tending Towards Savagery Is A Great Name For A Punk-Rock Band
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Sentence of Dave has often discussed risk assessment . . . it's difficult to decide what to worry about in a world where so much unf...
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How Much Better is 1493 is Than 1491? It's Two Better . . .
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Charles Mann's new book 1493: Uncovering The New World Columbus Created is worth the price of admission simply for the chapter on mala...
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The 9 Billion Sentences of Dave
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In Arthur C. Clarke's short story "The Nine Billion Names of God," a group of Tibetan monks-- aided by Western computer progr...
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Forces of Nature
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I recently learned several lessons about the power of nature: 1) the earth will shake when it wants to shake 2) a hurricane can ruin your b...
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