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Straightening the gravestones at the Quaker Cemetery

Posted on April 19, 2008 by

Just had a wonderful day at the Quaker Cemetery in Prospect Park, a lovely acre of largely untouched land that we have possessed for 150 years to house our dead.  Quakers traditionally have very simple graveyards, with modest, largely unadorned gravestones indicating where the cremated remains lie, and that’s about it.  There are no mausoleums,…

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[Scam] The Gunderson Foundation will not fly you + 5 friends to New York

Posted on April 19, 2008 by

Here’s a long, complicated scam email from someone purporting to represent Steve Gunderson of the "Gunderson Council Development Foundation."  Basically the email contains a lot of random NGO-speak to convince you to send personal information to them so they can steal your identity or credit card information.  These particular scams piss me off because they…

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MIT Wizard Henry Jenkin’s speaks on Teen Grid about Harry Potter and civic engagement

Posted on April 18, 2008 by

Interesting close of the day at Global Kids. I just finished helping Rafi and Barry with a Teen Grid event featuring MIT’s Henry Jenkins called the "Harry Potter Dance Party of Good and Evil."  Henry was speaking about the connections between Harry Potter and civic engagement, which apparently has more links than you might think. …

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Global Kids simulcasts into four virtual worlds and the web (video)

Posted on April 18, 2008 by

Check out this sweet Global Kids video showing how we organized a simulcast of Kofi Annan receiving an award from MacArthur on March 20th.  Produced by Kathy Vega and Barry Joseph, it shows how we were able to simulcast the event onto the web, and four virtual worlds — Second Life, Teen Second Life, Whyville…

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More pics of PMT Breakers

Posted on April 18, 2008 by

Matt Lopez posts a bunch of pics to his Facebook from the PMT breakdance group’s performance last night, that I don’t think he’ll mind if I grab to post here. I wanted to mention the diversity of our little group, which I think is remarkable.  From left-to-right: Eli (construction worker), Eugene (Wall St trader), Will…

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PMT breakers brought it!

Posted on April 17, 2008 by

I just got home from celebrating with friends after my breakdance performance tonight at PMT Studios.  I’m so proud of my team members — Eli, Trevor, Matt, Eugene and Will — who all just killed it tonight.  And I’m happy that I performed my parts well, including the Pavan freeze that I blogged about yesterday!…

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Crunch time for our breakdance performance tomorrow!

Posted on April 16, 2008 by

I’m resting up today because tomorrow night my breakdance group performs at the PMT Spring Showcase. I haven’t been blogging (or doing much of anything else) lately because every free moment for the past couple of weeks has been spent on breakdance practice.  It’s been a lot of last-second choreographing and adjustments to get to…

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Mole yawning

Posted on April 13, 2008 by

My cat Mole spends a lazy Saturday napping in my bed.

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Video: PMT Breaking Rehearsal tonight

Posted on April 12, 2008 by

Here’s some video of my breakdance performance class practice tonight. Dancers: Matt, Trevor, Eugene, Will and Rik.

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Photo/screenshot contest asks “how do you see women in Second Life?”

Posted on April 12, 2008 by

I got the news that the somewhat awkwardly-named Swiss non-profit noWomannoLife has launched a Second Life photo contest for the "best Second Life screenshot that represents the value of women." More specifically, the photo should address the following questions: How do you see women in Second Life? How does this virtual world helps us better…

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