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The Required Amount at the Prescribed Rate (Handcrafted From the Finest Corinthian Leather)
Lebron James: Crucified For All Our (Basketball Viewing) Sins
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Planet Money 427: LeBron James is Still Underpaid makes a strong economic case that James doesn't make nearly what he's worth-- he&...
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Republicans Should Start Surfing
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After some very sketchy research and a few stereotypical assumptions that are probably statistically true (conservatives ride motorcycles, l...
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Lady in Red
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I am in an awful relationship with the hot sauce from Taco House , our new favorite hole-in-the-wall authentic taqueria in New Brunswick-- w...
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The Test 111: This Is Your "Go To" Test
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This week on our podcast The Test , Cunningham investigates how Stacey and I exude so much charm and charisma, and we reveal our "go t...
Book Review and Team Name Suggestion All Wrapped Up in One Sentence
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Florida, Lauren Groff's collection of geographically related short stories, plunges you into the all the dangers the state has to offer...
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What?
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We drove home from Cape Cod today and we are (ironically) enjoying the cool weather, low humidity, and much lighter traffic here in Jersey.
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Serena Wins, Mesomorphs Rejoice
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There's a tennis court on the premises where we are staying on the Cape, and I've been playing a lot of tennis with my kids-- sever...
Smart Phone, Smart Kids, Slow Dad
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I'm not sure if this is a generational thing or if my son Alex is impulsive and rude, but whenever I'm screwing something up with my...
We Try To Be an Out-To-Breakfast Family
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Perhaps because of the enormous vacuum in my life due to lack of World Cup games until Friday, or perhaps because we like to humor mom once ...
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Check Your Head
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Many years ago, I recognized that adult snowboarders were all wearing helmets and so I bought a helmet-- I'm not sure why adult snowboar...
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Random Vacation Notes, Cape Cod 2018 Edition
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We've only been up at the Cape since Saturday, but I've already got quite a few thoughts: 1) after an early morning bike ride on S...
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The Challenge of the Changeling
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I don't read much challenging non-fiction these days-- back in my twenties, I remember tackling Gravity's Rainbow (with a reader...
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First World Problem # 745
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We were on the road this morning before 5 AM (4:54 AM to be precise) but we still hit standstill traffic at the Bourne Bridge.
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Open Sesame, Mind
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Two podcasts that opened my mind and altered my thoughts on political issues: 1) The Daily: Justice Kennedy's Last Decison . . . I a...
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Dramaturgy How To, Ready Break!
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The film Ladybird is sweet and touching and funny and true (and apparently quite emotional if you're a woman and you were mean to you...
It's Already 6 PM? Yikes! How Did That Happen? What Are We Going to Do About Dinner?
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Most educated people are dimly aware that time is relative-- clocks run slower when gravity is stronger and movement, confounded by the spee...
My Modules Think, Therefore My Modules Are (Some Sort of Non-reductionist Emergent System)
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Michael S, Gazzaniga is one of our most celebrated neuroscientists and his new book certainly demonstrates this; The Consciousness Instinct:...
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That Dog Thinks It's a Car!
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Our new dog is learning to run alongside me while I bike (she's attached to the bike by a bungie cord) and while she trots along at a pr...
The Test 110: Abracadabra (This Test Will Reach Out and Grab Ya)
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The Test is back and better than ever (or maybe exactly the same as ever) and for the start of this new season, I take one for the team,...
Imagine How Tired I Would Be If I Actually Played
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I'm too exhausted from the Germany/Sweden game to write anything decent.
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Dave Gets It (Slowly But Surely)
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When I first got my Father's Day T-Shirt, I was confused-- Tantalum? Cobalt? What?-- but then I noticed that the abbreviations-- "T...
Once More unto the Breach, Teach
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Teaching is a weird job-- sometimes it feels like it's all introductions and conclusions-- and when the year ends and you wave goo...
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Thinking It vs. Communicating It
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I'd like to thank my dedicated readers for pointing out yesterday's gaffe; I thought the word "tone" to myself while writi...
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Same County/Parallel Universe
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The setting of Drown , Juno Diaz's collection of short stories about Dominican immigrants making their way in America in the 1980's...
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Better Luck Next Year? Not If It's a Quadrennial Event
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If you want to thoroughly wallow in the fact that the U.S. didn't qualify for this World Cup, spend your time in between games listening...
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Dads of the World Rejoice
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Three world cup games and Father's Day are a good combination (I think there's a some local golf tournament going on as well).
Activities > Socializing
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Yesterday I did 6 AM basketball and then played in a corn-hole tournament at our end of year party, and today is a block party on the street...
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Time . . . Best Not to Think About It
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Despite all the physics and quantum science, the final message of Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time is that our perception of time and ...
Breaking News: Dave is 6' 1"
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It's weird . . .the older and grouchier I get, the more the students like me-- and while I'm honored and flattered for ...
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Mom Always Figures It Out (Except for the Stolen Bike)
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Yesterday was my son Alex's class trip to Dorney Park and my wife suggested that he not bring his cell-phone because he would surely lo...
I Knew There Was Something Weird About My Left Shoe
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Stepping in dog poop no fun unless you don't notice until you've walked all the way across the house.
Wheels in Your Mind Keep on Turning
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Friday, Ian rode his bike from school to the Friday Farm Market, locked his bike to a tree, bought two servings of pad thai at the pad thai ...
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We Put the Man in Manhattan
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Here are a few shots of the intrepid crew that circumnavigated Manhattan on Saturday, it was a long haul and backtracking was anathema ...
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Dave Gets His Steps in (For the Week)
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I just got home from a 20+ mile hike from the top of Manhattan (207th St) down the western side of the island to Battery Park . . . epic and...
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Eyebrows Off Fleek
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One of my student's Twitter account went viral this week with this quick clip of a girl taking off her fake-eyelashes at prom (to her da...
Dave Keeps the Barbarians at Bay
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This morning I pulled into the high school parking lot, got out of the car and went around to the passenger side, opened the door and grabbe...
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No Time Like the Present
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I got my seniors amped up for graduation today by reading them an excerpt from Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time -- a book connects perf...
Can You Write Off Gummy Stuff?
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It's bad enough that Ian purchased and ate Gummy Lifesavers (he has braces and was explicitly told never to eat anything gummy) but the ...
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Why Doesn't Catherine Care When I'm Limping?
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I thought I broke our new dog Lola because I walked her too long the other morning-- she developed a bit of a limp-- but then we noticed the...
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Two New Rules (for Dave)
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My wife is growing her hair long because she says she needs to do it before she turns fifty . . . according to her, women over fifty usuall...
Short and Sweet
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Cat and I are celebrating 18 years of marriage tonight.
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How Much Would You Pay NOT to Live in 1989?
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I highly recommend The Indicator , a very short podcast that tells compelling economic stories, and this recent episode (Internet a la Cart...
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Dog Daze
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We are settling in to the reality of having a puppy in the house . . . she raced outside this morning to do her business and I went to pick ...
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Frittering Away the Moments That Make Up the Dull Day (While Waiting For the Damn Game to Come On)
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I think it's a crying shame that we folks on the East Coast have to stay up so late to watch the NBA play-offs . . . the league is losin...
Lola Learns to Stroll Around the Neighborhood
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Wandering around the neighborhood listening to podcasts is far more fun when you have a furry companion.
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New Dog!
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We adopted a dog today from the APAWS Shelter in West Windsor; Lola is part Rhodesian Ridgeback, part who knows what, and entirely sweet...
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Dave Put His Magic (Loogie) Touch on the Lyrics
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My buddy and fellow English teacher Bob (the leader sing and bassist extraordinaire of the Faculty Follies band) wrote the first few stan...
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Dave Loves It When a Plan Comes Together
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For the Faculty Follies, the house band usually does all new song parodies, but I demanded we resuscitate one song: "PSAT" (w...
Dave Makes a Split Second Decision (on Stage)
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Last night, I got as close to being a rock star as I ever will-- I played guitar in the Faculty Follies House Band in front of nearly a...
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Imitation: The Sincerest Form of Something
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Today was "Dress Like a Teacher Day" at East Brunswick High School, and two lovely young ladies abandoned all fashion sense and dr...
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Contrasting Food Stuff Juxtaposition
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The directions on the Colavita rigatoni are too ambiguous: "cook to desired tenderness," while the sign on the bathroom at Tacoria...
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Dave Makes a Radical Change and the Consensus is: Genius!
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Last Friday I made a radical kitchen move that took twelve years to discover: I moved all of our mismatched tupperware-type plastic containe...
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A Story With No Moral (But Plenty of Splattering)
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Alex punched Ian in the back when he came up the stairs because Ian was being annoying about how much money he had made doing gardening work...
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Comedy = Women to the Rescue/ Tragedy = Just Men
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If you're dismayed by the state of the state, I highly recommend you read Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher...
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Yelling After a Quiet Place
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Another rainy day, and my wife and I had no desire to endure the crass humor of Deadpool 2 , so instead we took the kids to see A Quiet Plac...
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Thanks, CIA!
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Jazz is the abstract expressionist version of music (and, improbably, the CIA helped promote this primarily theoretical art form which main...
Testing 1,2,3 . . . 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11
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We did our Faculty Follies soundcheck today and then, while we were up on stage and everything was miked up through the PA and the soundboar...
Giving a F*ck About Not Giving a F*ck
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Mark Manson's breezy, philosophical and surprisingly profound millennial self-help guide The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counteri...
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Lyrics We Wrote
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Today, I was obsessed with finding some song parody lyrics from the last Faculty Follies house band performance three years previous ("...
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Playception!
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So everyone with even a modicum of education knows that there is a play-within-a-play at the center of Shakespeare's Hamlet-- The Murder...
Warning: Pedantry Ahead
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing (especially when it resides in my head) so I'm warning you ahead of time: I just learned that wh...
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Brotherly Love/Fatherly Rage
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I guest-coached my older son Alex's travel soccer game today and they were short-handed (short-footed?) and so my younger son Ian had to...
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Good (Enough) Friday
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In the end, this will be the day that it all happened ( if we're talking about 6 AM basketball, 7:30 AM folder review with the Rutgers g...
The First Rule of Book Club
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I finished the classic Ursula Le Guin science-fiction novel The Lathe of Heaven earlier this week but I can't discuss my thoughts about...
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A Significant Amount
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What percentage of the passenger seat in my car is Jalapeno Chip seasoning?
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Easily Distracted = Easily Amused
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I had trouble writing my sentence today because of all the ping pong ping pong ping pong ping pong.
Not My Purview
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Sunday morning, I got on my bike and rode across town to the 5K Volunteer Meeting; received my Volunteer t-shirt and little cardboard STOP s...
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The Grand Budapest Florida Hotel Project
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The Florida Project is streaming for free on Amazon Prime right now and it's a sad and magical movie, a trashy, rundown, one-step-away-...
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Hey Man, Stop Blowin' Up My White Font Spot
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I was covering a physics class last week and a nerdy kid offered me some valuable information on how to cheat the word count on an assignmen...
Dave Comes in First Place for First World Problems
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My outdoor ping-pong table is arriving for pick-up at Sears tomorrow . . . one day after our Cuatro de Mayo Happy Hour (I guess we'll ha...
Catherine Goes Rogue
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I arrived home from work today at 3 PM and noticed that my wife's car was parked in front of the house; at first I imagined the worst (m...
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Dave Turns Catherine Into Dave
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My wife called me yesterday on her way home from work to point out that she was filling up the gas tank in the CRV -- the tank was getting l...
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Will Dave Use SoD as a Reference?
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We are starting to prepare for our Cuatro de Mayo happy hour on Friday and I'm going to infuse some tequila with hot peppers; I have ref...
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