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Without tailoring, all you have is an expensive tablecloth.

April 18, 2008 – 2:17 pm

Dear readers,
 We’re just about ready to get on track with regular posting again, but I need to do something first….
During this first short year, I have come to realize that I am trying to do too many different things with this blog, which is inhibiting my ability to achieve any one of my lofty online aspirations. Don’t […]

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Comedic sites worth a visit

March 13, 2008 – 2:15 pm

I haven’t introduced any new sites recently, because I hadn’t found anything funny enough to follow up passiveaggressivenotes.com.
Well the wait is over. Here are two gems that deserve the time it will take you to click on over there and start laughing your ass off:

The first site is Stuff White People Like was introduced to […]

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Dis | connected

November 5, 2007 – 9:30 pm

For a guy that works so hard to stay connected, I have to admit that I’ve failed miserably this month. My wife and I decided to move about 6 weeks ago. It didn’t even cross my mind that I might have to order an internet connection that far in advance, but now that we’re settled […]

By Steven Nishida | Also posted in japan, technology | Comments (0)

Did You Know 2.0? (by Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod)

October 21, 2007 – 2:39 pm

Here’s another thought-provoking video which touches on some of the same themes as my last post and the video contained therein.
Actually Did You Know 2.0 is an official update to the video entitled Shift Happens by Karl Fisch (author of The Fischbowl) and Scott McLeod (author of Dangerously Irrelevant). These guys are always hard at […]

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Shifting focus.

September 16, 2007 – 2:42 pm

Welcome to the new and always improving Reality on a Stick.
As some of you may have noticed, my focus has been shifting to more parenting and education posts of late. That’s a natural consequence of my current circumstances, I suppose, but it is also a conscious effort on my part. During the first 6 months […]

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Bashing Miss Teen South Carolina…for the good of education.

September 3, 2007 – 9:05 pm

The uber-intelligent and ever-charming EFL teacher and host of The Daily English Show, Sarah Lilburn, delivers a thorough and devastating account of why Miss Teen South Carolina’s response was so funny to so many native speakers of English. Let’s not get into whether it’s fair or appropriate to be handing out further shalackings to this […]

By Steven Nishida | Also posted in teaching, efl, education, video, humor | Comments (0)

Passive-Aggressive Notes

August 28, 2007 – 5:15 am

This site is an example of why I love the internet. A simple concept, amplified by a wide base of reader-contributors, endless entertainment, nobody harmed. Kudos to the folks that conceived this one:
(Click the image below to view the site)

Enjoy!
Steve
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Education in the 21st Century: It’s all about Community.

August 4, 2007 – 7:55 pm

For years, I have struggled to find consistent real-world connections between education and community. The following is a series of discussion points and questions I have arrived at in considering possible connections. I don’t presume to have reached any definitve answers. I’m still trying to narrow the field of questions at this stage.
After reading, your […]

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English Masters Blog

July 18, 2007 – 8:31 pm

Just wanted to drop a quick note to inform you all that my school has just launched an English learning blog which will take the place of the message forums that we hosted previously. All of the English learning tools linked are much more dynamic and just a click away.
Hope this is useful to some […]

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Great blog: Who Sucks

July 10, 2007 – 9:18 pm

This is one of my new favorite blogs. I have a lot of time for well-written cynicism…

Who-Sucks.com is a site dedicated to researching the reasons why certain people and things suck, and then posting about it. When creating posts, we check a variety of sites around the net, trying to represent as many negative […]

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