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Arcade games and the SATs

In one of my favorite tv shows of all time, News Radio, the very smart hyper prepared Lisa Miller can't do a word jumble. She wonders if she is losing her smarts: Lisa Miller: Well, it's finally happened. Dave: What? Lisa Miller: I'm becoming stupid. Dave: You don't say? Lisa Miller: The brain starts to deteriorate after age thirty. Dave: Where did you hear that? Lisa Miller: I don't remember... See? See? Her solution is to eventually retake the SATs to prove to herself she is not stupid. The episode also involves arcade games and a sandwich machine...but I digress. Ever since I had the fourth kid or the "I turned forty, wow even", I have been noticing leakage. My brain is just weird. I'll be talking to the kids and lose my train of thought. I am not in the middle of a college lecture. Nope, it is more like "how did that sucker get on my butt. We really have to.....what was I saying?" I recently read a story (fiction) about a famous prof

Spell this bee

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A few days ago, my son asked me if AIS was a swear word. Feeling I was in the moment of teaching and openness, I said, "No, son. A-S-S is a swear word." Guess what my son wrote in big caps with giant chalk and lots of glee? Drrrrr.