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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Edward Tufte, god of information display, has famously claimed that "PowerPoint makes you stupid" (The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint).
David (Talking Heads) Byrne has disagreed (Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information), with "I ♥ PowerPoint"".
Oz has sided with David Byrne, and has discovered the, um, joy, I guess, of PowerPoint. After doing ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Another recent Oz-let:
Oz has a pretty remarkably undeveloped sense about swearing. Once or twice the idea of a "bad word" has come up, but hardly at all. I'm a little surprised by this; by second grade, I hadn't started swearing (that began in earnest in fifth grade), but I certainly ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
I have a couple of recent Oz-lets; here's one.
Oz has become a big Weird Al Yankovic fan. We had "The Food Album" (a compilation of his food-related songs from the 80's) in rotation when he was younger, but now he's decided Al is really funny and has been listening ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Following up on Oz's language use in The logic of indexicals for the 1.7 readers who care about such things, here's another bizarre indexicality 'n counterfactuals construction from yesterdayIf I were you, Grandma would be 41 years old.Because, you know, when I was 8 (Oz's present age), Mom was 41.
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Happy birthday to my best buddy.
I hear that 8 is when you're officially a big kid.
I can see the teenager in there, struggling to get out and dismiss me.
But not yet.
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
The other day Oz (a couple weeks shy of his 8th birthday) had his first real existential crisis. Earlier in the weekend, on Saturday morning, one of our elderly and ailing neighbors died. Oz knew this -- he saw the aid car come, and a day later, he was with ...
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Today, Oz starts 2nd grade. The parental anxiety about the new school year, new teacher, new classmates, and all that is dropping each year, but that isn't to say it's gone. We don't worry about Oz's "academic" performance at all -- his reading and math skills are ...
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Monday, August 6th, 2007
We took Oz into Canada for the first time last week on vacation. (We went to Niagara Falls, where we'd gone to get married 11 years (!) ago.) Nice trip, and people were, as usual, nice to us in spite of our being American. (And how could they tell so ...
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Friday, July 20th, 2007
For the 1.7 of you out there that care about such things: At 7-1/2, Oz is a pretty competent speaker of the language. But he generated a strange construction yesterday which seems to violate the normal logic of indexicals.
Context: It's the last day of day camp for a kid that ...
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