December 2010
33 posts published in December 2010.
- Question 365 of 365: What is enough?My year hasn’t been about numbers. It has been about ideas. And thoughts. And change. The curving mark that punctuated each day and made it…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 364 of 365: Why should we treasure the penultimate?Quite often we do not know when we are about to experience the last of something. The last day on the job comes as a surprise sometimes. The last…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 363 of 365: Why do we need prerequisites?We used to fold our clothes on the dining room table. Once about four loads of clean laundry sat in their baskets for four days or more, I would…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 362 of 365: Can we research our way out of our problems?I have never understood card catalog systems. Every time that I look at the series of numbers and letters in front of me on the cute little slip…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 361 of 365: How should we set the table?I have never know where the fork and knife are supposed to go. I have been told this information many times but I have never known it. I have…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 360 of 365: Is audience a moving target?My girlfriend would read my poetry in high school. I would write it for her in study hall and then show it to her during lunch. It was the quick…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 359 of 365: Should we believe in Santa?Image by Getty Images via @daylife I didn’t know Santa growing up, or more accurately, I didn’t know him the way that other kids my age did. They…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 358 of 365: When should we eat the glue?Image by OblioZen via Flickr We secretly all want to eat glue. We wall wonder what exactly it will taste like and just how it will react in our…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 357 of 365: What happens when you go back to the beginning?I went back to the places I grew up and played music for a friend of mine. I played the best songs that I knew with the new chords that I had just…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 356 of 365: When should you shut up and just watch?When what you are watching is more beautiful, dramatic and filled with purpose than your actions would be at this very moment. When the words…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 355 of 365: Who do you think you are?Usually I know what to expect when I head into a meeting. Usually I can see what is coming and figure out any problems that are in the offing. I…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 354 of 365: Are we fire starters?It used to be that you couldn’t map an idea, that you couldn’t plot its trajectory. It used to be that you couldn’t identify the connectors and…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 353 of 365: Who surprises someone with a car?Every holiday season, I am flabbergasted by the number of commercials that involve surprising a loved one with a car. They put bows on them,…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 352 of 365: What is a preview worth?I am the type of person that likes getting to a movie at least thirty minutes before it is scheduled to start. I do this in order to make…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 351 of 365: Should we ask for database access?Databases are magic. The front end of every website that you go to is based upon a layer of databases working hard in the background. Each…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 350 of 365: What happens when your savings is gone?I have been saving everything for years. I have been cataloguing the world around me and saving it for later. I have been tagging it with what…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 349 of 365: When should we exercise?I feel like I am wearing a fleshy overcoat. My belly that has never been a problem for me is now hanging uncomfortably over my belt. I see myself…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 348 of 365: Should we keep secret recipes?For some an inheritance of recipes is the most tangible transfer of knowledge from one generation to another. These are the recipes that are…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 347 of 365: When should more than one person talk at a time?Conference calls are nightmares. The bond between caller and callee is totally broken when everyone dials in to a third party. In reality, it is…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 346 of 365: When should you hear someone coming?Image via Wikipedia My entire family has booming footsteps. The first time that my wife stayed over at my parents house during the holidays, she…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 345 of 365: When should we Veg?When we have impending due dates that seem to be getting closer and closer. When we have dozens of unwatched television shows on the DVR. When…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 344 of 365: Are we ripping the right information?Image via Wikipedia A DVD was supposed to be one of the most encrypted physical media types to ever be created. It was supposed to have been the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 343 of 365: What can we learn from Carmen Sandiego?We learn just how disposable magazines are. We learn that networking knows no bounds and people will find even the loosest connections in order to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- SOITA 2010All of these sessions are Conversations, not presentations. Our group code on http://edmodo.com is 9999rl Post questions, ideas, responses and…
- Question 342 of 365: Will we figure it out when we get there?A lot of things are done for me. Other people give me soda on an airplane. Entire institutions hold onto my money until I need it. Lighted objects…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 341 of 365: What are our values of community?A community consists of trust and shared vision. In order to cultivate trust within the community, we must establish the following: The primary…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 340 of 365: Do we hate paper?The yin: I can now print from my iPhone. The yang: Google Books is ready to serve up more free ebooks than I could ever hope to read in my…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 339 of 365: What is a tick flicker?The shorter version of a flea flicker. It really only makes sense if you are watching football with your wife who has been sick for a full week.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 338 of 365: What becomes a tradition?When working in a middle school that only serves 7th and 8th graders you can do something once and it is launched as a tradition. When the 7th…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 337 of 365: What should you do when you accidentally shave off the mustache you were growing for charity?Purchase a ridiculous fake mustache and wear it as penance.365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 336 of 365: What are we without deadlines?The space between the statement of the task and the completion of that task is infinite. It is the one place where all of our fear and…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 335 of 365: Will the future be double spaced?I used to write research papers in a single evening. I would slog on through 20 pages, even if it meant pulling an all-nighter. To me, it wasn’t a…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 334 of 365: Should we buy comfortable couches?Image via Wikipedia We currently own the most comfortable couch that I can ever hope to have. While not immediately plush and inviting, it is the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer