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The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
Ian Writes an Ode to Our Dog
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My son Ian had to write a "bio" poem for school-- and at first I thought this meant a "biology" poem-- but he told me th...
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TV Stuff Part II
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To continue yesterday's thread, the only TV I have been watching is The Office . . . my kids love it and I barely remember it, so we...
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Medium Apostrophe
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Sometimes I complain that there are too many good TV shows and it's impossible to keep up with everyone's recommendations, but that...
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Dave Gets Smart
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I have finally entered the world of the smartphone, and it's awesome-- I did it on the cheap: I purchased an older model Samsung Galaxy ...
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Sears Catalog = internet
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I have a friend who sells things on eBay, and not just old stuff-- she'll actually bargain-shop and buy new stuff and then flip it on eB...
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The Test 47: Opening Lines
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This week on The Test , Cunningham quizzes us on the opening lines of seven famous literary works . . . and there's also sitcom nostalgi...
Perezoso
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I wish I spoke fluent Spanish, but I don't want to take the time to learn . . . is there a Spanish word for that?
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Proportionality Bias
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I learned the term Proportionality Bias while listening to Benjamen Walker's The Theory of Everything podcast . . . this logical fall...
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Every Anxious Wave
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If you dig alternative 90's music-- especially The Melvins-- and also enjoy the paradoxes of time travel, then check out Mo Daviau's...
Serial Season 2: You Should Listen to It (and write an essay about it)
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This review is a bit late-- but I loved Serial Season 2 , and while I recognize that Serial Season 1 was incredibly compelling because of t...
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Angels Flight is a Funicular Railway and a Harry Bosch Novel
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My apologies in advance, as I love the word "funicular" and will use it as many times as possible in this book review; Angels...
The Test 46: What's That Thing Called?
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This week on The Test , y ou've seen it . . . you've used it . . . you even know what it's for . . . but what is it called?
Technology: The Cause of (and Solution to) All of Life's Problems Part Two
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While the technological inconvenience of the PARCC test is annoying, and corporate globalization of education is scary, neither of these thi...
Technology: The Cause of (and Solution to) All of Life's Problems: Part One
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New Jersey schools are conducting the PARCC test, and so far it has been a logistical nightmare-- there was a statewide technical breakdown ...
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Juggling isn't Just for Clowns
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Our varsity soccer coach made us juggle the ball at nearly every practice, despite our complaints-- you never juggle the ball in the game! n...
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Cooperation vs. Competition
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While I love competition, I love it in particular forums (darts, cornhole, basketball, soccer, pedantry, stealing rocks from the park, mirac...
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Far Post > Near Post
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I decided that it was time to teach my players that good things happen when you shoot and cross the ball to the far post , and while this is...
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Habits are Powerful
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I highly recommend The Power of Habit:Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg-- it's Malcolm-Gladwell-meets-self-h...
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Dave's Take on East Coast Comicon
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If you've never been to Comicon, I can save you the trouble: imagine the Route 1 Flea Market (the one in Kevin Smith's movie Mall...
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The Test 45: Borderline Insanity
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I don't say this often, but you must listen to this week's episode of The Test ; in fact, I am giving it Dave's Coveted Platinum...
Applying Things to Other Things
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On Thursday in composition class, we listened to an excerpt of Freakonomics about skepticism and critical analysis ( The Truth is Out There...
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Caveat Chapin
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The radio station should warn you before playing Harry Chapin's song "Cat's in the Cradle" -- there's are times when y...
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45.4% and 99%
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If you're excited and astounded by the margin Stephen Curry broke his own three point record (402 three pointers this year, vs. 286 last...
A Review of Some Key Moments in the Film Better Off Dead
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One of the joys of having children is forcing them to watch movies from your youth; Saturday night we ate tacos and the entire family enjoye...
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Plastic Fantastic Anaphora
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I have a dream . . . I have a dream that one day in my kitchen cabinet there will only be one brand of plastic container . . . I have a drea...
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Fight the Power
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I urge you to listen to the 99 Percent Invisible episode "Flying Food" ; it describes the relatively recent history of food adve...
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The Test 44: More Shows!
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If there's one thing that Stacey and I have learned while making forty-plus episodes of The Test , it's that Cunningham loves shows...
An Open Letter to US Youth Soccer:
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Dear US Youth Soccer, While I recognize this as a "first world problem," your top-down bureaucratic decision to align US Youth s...
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History Repeats Itself (to Dave's Chagrin)
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I was walking the dog this morning in the predawn darkness--staring at the sidewalk, thinking my early morning thoughts about the day-- and ...
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Learning Stuff the Old Fashioned Way
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Each morning during the homeroom video announcements at my high school, there is an introductory snippet of a song-- and it's different ...
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Robots vs. Selfish Drunk People
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I recently watched the movie Ex Machina , and I loved it-- especially the "villain," a super-intelligent, super-rich, super-sel...
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If You Can Measure It, Then You Will Care About It
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I'm not sure where I first heard the sentiment "we can't measure what we care about, so we care about what we can measure"...
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The Test 43: Dave Speaks for the Trees
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This week on The Test , I speak for the trees . . . because if I don't speak for the trees, who will?
How Do YOU Spell the "C" Word?
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Thursday in the English Department, lines were drawn, alliances were formed, vitriol was spewed, judgments (judgements?) were made, umbrage ...
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Three Thousand Words
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I am usually articulate enough to portray The Life of Dave with words alone, but sometimes only photographs will do the trick: 1) one of ...
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T Junctions
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Charlie Jane Ander's novel genre-mash-up novel All the Birds in the Sky uses the love affair between a witch and a techno-geek as a met...
Snakes on a Homonym (Parts 1 and 2)
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My boys and their buddy Ben went to the salamander path on Tuesday, to turn over some rocks and find salamanders, but--to their surprise...
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Problem . . . Solution . . . Problem . . . Solution . . . Problem
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I am sure you have had the problem of what to do with your keys when you drive somewhere to go for a run-- normally I take the car key off m...
What Are the Odds?
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On the way home from our trip to the Poconos, my wife asked me what the mileage was on the oil-change sticker and I said "97,629" ...
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We Really Did Hike Glen Onoko Falls
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Although we had a lovely hike up the Glen Onoko Falls Trail in Lehigh Gorge State Park (next to Jim Thorpe, PA) there isn't much evidenc...
The Test 42: Literary Stuff
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This week on The Test , Stacey teaches Cunningham and me a few things about her literary heroes; if you listen to this episode, I promise ...
Oops, I Did It Again?
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I've got a plethora of excuses for my actions yesterday (though my wife is accepting none of them) but apparently I got naked in a publ...
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Quest for Pizza . . . Old Bridge Edition
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My Quest for Pizza continues . . . my friend Stacey, who is an Old Bridge local, recommended General Saloon and the pizza is pretty good: ...
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Incentives and The Prize
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I'd like to know what economic lessons Tim Harford would find behind Mark Zuckerberg, Cory Booker, and Chris Christie's attempt to ...
Life isn't Fair (but Sometimes It Is Logical)
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Tim Harford's The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World is another gem, especially if you're a fan of Freako...
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This Is Difficult to Articulate
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I feel like on some level, in some space in my brain, I am very, very smart . . . but I just can't remember things, or think of examples...
The Test 41: Zombies (and Zombeavers)
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This week on The Test , Stacey collaborates with special guest Liz collaborates on a phenomenal and comprehensive zombie quiz-- Dave and Cun...
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I Can't Get the Slime into the Tube
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I was very excited to use the bottle of Slime Tube Sealant that I purchased, as Slime Tube Sealant prevents and repairs flat tires, seals in...
They Skipped This One in Driver's Ed
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Obviously drunk-driving and texting-while-driving are bad news, but neither of these is as dangerous as driving with a large hairy black spi...
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Reverse Allusion
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The weather has warmed up, and this has inspired me to continue my project of grabbing large rocks from the river during low tide , putting ...
'tis the Season to Be Cranky
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It is once again time for my semi-annual Daylight Saving Time Rant , but this year I'm happy to report that I've found one kindred s...
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Musical Theater as Punishment
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My son Ian got in some serious trouble Friday night and his consequence for his various infractions is a two week grounding; for the first n...
The Test 40: More Theme Songs
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This week on The Test, Cunningham administers another TV (and a movie!) Theme Song Quiz; Stacey and I do better than the first time around ...
Pleasant Rhyming Surprise
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I was walking the dog Friday afternoon and a middle school girl nearly ran into me-- she was looking down intently at an object in her hands...
Something to Teach Your Kids: Money Talks and Bullshit Walks
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While my parental proclamation declaring that my children may only watch approved and highly rated documentaries on school nights has pre...
Pizza Ambitions
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The Freakonomics episode "The Cheeseburger Diet" has inspired me to eat pizza from a wider variety of establishments, and while I...
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Expatriates
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I remember when we first went to live and teach overseas, an older international teacher told me, "Don't expect anyone back at home...
The Arbitrary Nature of Basketball Design
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99% Invisible is a fairly nerdy podcast which focuses on design, but "The Yin and Yang of Basketball" is a refreshing change fro...
Happy Birthday?
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On the morning of my birthday, my mother texted me this: Hi Dave, Happy 46th birthday . . . have a good day . . . I can't believe in f...
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The Test 39: Chronological Fun for the Whole Family
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Once upon a time, I had a great idea for a Trivial Pursuit style family board game-- you would receive three thematically connected things, ...
More Undercover Economics
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I highly recommend Tim Harford's book The Undercover Economist-- here are a few of the many many topics he covers: 1) why storebrand s...
Triple Threat
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I may not be a great cook, and I'm certainly not a great singer, and (compared to my friends) I'm not the world's best beer drin...
You Be the Judge
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So "face-swapping" apps are all the rage right now at our school, and the "face-swap" above is a combination of me ...
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Dave and Theodore Geisel Both Enjoy Another Birthday (to Varying Degrees)
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The doctor and I are both a year older, but his celebration is darker and colder.
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An Open Letter to the Lady Who Yelled "FULL STOP!" at Me
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Dear Old Lady with Two Little White Dogs Who Yelled "FULL STOP!!!" at me, while I will readily admit that I did not come to a fu...
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