Fat Burgers
Yesterday, I tried a new method of cooking burgers after a few years of only making smash burgers. My opinion has been that flattening burgers prioritizes br...
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2026
The Best Teacher Appreciation
It’s teacher appreciation week, which means that teachers all over (as seen in places like the Reddit teacher forum) are discussing what their districts do ...
Can I blog from my phone?
This is my first post using a CMS to manage this blog. Since I can blog from my phone this way, expect many more typos. And more posts. At least, that’s the...
A Test For Living Long Permalink
This story on NPR describes a survey you can take to check up on your preparedness to enter the later phase of your life. “Unlike one more survey or inde...
Educators Meet Agents
I just got back from an AI-focused PLTW professional development session run by the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The topic was moving (our underst...
Computing Update - April
I’m just at the end of school’s April break, and from early April to now I’ve been messing around with hardware and software at home, and I recorded none of ...
Miss JCPOA Yet?
I saw someone post this meme on social media, comparing the Obama-era JCPOA vs the mess Trump has made. You can never trust memes, so I checked up on various...
Baroque Boss Battle
I was messing around with Google’s Gemini, and it now has a feature for creating music. One of the options is for chiptunes. So I gave it a desc...
Outer Wilds Hot Shot and YouTube Achievements
Apologies in advance that this post is a bit of a ride. I’m not sure who the audience is, but that’s never stopped me before. Yesterday I uploa...
Lying About Vaccine Support
“We have advocated for measles vaccines all along” Dr. Mehmet Oz I wonder how many people find it possible to believe that. If you read this or heard t...
2025
Have I been unfair to Libertarians?
Maybe On and off I’ve been lamenting aloud (only, really, among friends) about the absence of a Libertarian outcry regarding the current American regime’s a...
Superman Reminds Us What Heroism Can Look Like
First, Some Thoughts on the Controversy Media companies naturally try to figure out how to increase their audience. If there is a conspiracy to interfere ...
Pico-8 vs. MakeCode Arcade
PICO-8 is a fantasy console that provides an environment for creating, sharing, and playing small digital games and programs. PICO-8 deliberately embraces li...
Future Ready: AI in the Classroom Permalink
This week I traveled to Westborough to participate in the two-day kickoff of an AI in the Classroom initiative. You can read the state press release about it...
Owl See You Later
I have been purposefully ignoring Duo for the last couple of days. While I understand that the point of Duolingo streaks is to encourage you to continue st...
Escort Mission Game 
I teach a game creation class at the high school, and one of the platforms we use is Microsoft MakeCode Arcade. I’ve written about it before. Students have...
Kibbeh
My daughter requested this for her birthday, so it motivated me to get the recipe on here for you. Also, you can find this recipe for Kibbeh on my Cooked.w...
One Thing About Me and Indigestible Fat
A couple of years back there was a trend in short videos. People were rapping over an instrumental version of a Nicki Minaj song1. The first lyr...
Back to the Pens
Sorry, but you’re probably going to get pen posts. These are some pens I dug up out of my collection, cleaned, and resurrected. Recently – at ...
Pancakes of the Past and Future
Click for larger, complete images. Way back when my girls were ...
The American Experiment
Chasing the Most American Image Ever: A Conversation with ChatGPT What began as a simple prompt quickly escalated into a thunderous journey through layers o...
Why Computer Science Matters Now
Teaching the Future: Why Computer Science Matters Now In my classrooms, in my school, in my town, and beyond, challenges have been pressing in from every di...
CSTA: A Teacher-Centered Approach to Reimagining CS Professional Development Permalink
I haven’t had time to write about this post, so I’m making this link post. At a busy time in the term, someone brought this article to my attention, and the...
Maggie’s Lebanese Family Recipe Book Permalink
Part of how I used to use my old blog was to share and remember recipes. Here’s a document Maggie put together to record some Lebanese recipes she got from m...
Supernatural Classroom Management
The image above and the following explanation were created with ChatGPT for entertainment purposes. The narrative of the images above is as follows: Panel 1...
and Spoilers
I know this post looks political because was recently in the news,
but I thought I would look into how to use emojis on this blog, and it ...
Improved Hydration Targeting
Aren’t they beautiful? This weekend I baked sourdough again. I ...
Deploying MakeCode
It took me a bit of time to figure out what was going wrong with my deployed MakeCode Arcade games that were being hosted by GitHub pages here on my website ...
Silly Shark Game Permalink
I just recently figured out that when I manage my MakeCode Arcade programs with GitHub, they’ll also automatically get hosted here on my website. On a separa...
Sinistar Permalink
Back when I was first learning MakeCode Arcade, I tried to write a mini-clone of the arcade classic Sinistar. At the time I’m making this blog post, it’s lar...
Drow Facts is Back
That’s right, the Drow Facts webapp is back. There’s a story behind this. Here’s the short version. The DrowFacts Project is something I threw together in ba...
First DaVinci Resolve Video
Here’s a video I made yesterday using DaVinci Resolve. There’s an explanation below. Recently, I have moved my work from an older computer to a ...
Stick bomb video short
Yesterday in Eng Design we had students make different kinds of stick bombs as a way to demonstrate structures held together by tension. I used a square conf...
You Have Your America, and I Have Mine.
You have your America, and I have mine. You have your America of division, of walls seen and unseen, And I have my America of hearts open and burdens sha...
A Two Americas Poem
I wrote a poem this week, and it was inspired by a poem about Lebanon that was written by Kahlil Gibran. Here is his poem in an Instagram post. I don’t real...