📖 Read pages 117-148 of No Coins, Please by Gordon Korman

📖 Read pages 117-148 Chapter 8 “The Denver Twist” and beginning of Chapter 9 ” A little difference of opinion” of No Coins, Please by Gordon Corman

Things get a bit more far-fetched while running The Pretzel, but the fantasy of the story just sweeps you up.

Also delved into the beginning of the next chapter where everyone stands up for Artie. He’s really got them around his finger now…

📖 Read pages 93-117 of No Coins, Please by Gordon Korman

📖 Read pages 93-117 Chapter 7 “No Frills” of No Coins, Please by Gordon Corman

Though there are some leaps which the reader is likely only all-too-happy-to make, you have to love the way that Artie comes out to his fellow campers while running the no-frills milk store. I can just see Rob and Dennis waking up to the fact that it isn’t just Artie who’s gone, but their entire group.

👓 i am sorry | Pernille Ripp

Read i am sorry by Pernille RippPernille Ripp (Pernille Ripp)
This is a personal post.  I won’t be offended if you skip it.  But as always, this little tiny space on the internet, is my place for the thoughts I carry with me and the thoughts I have right now are about this tiny space and the role I play. Two weeks ago, I was working from home, probably che...

👓 I Am Sorry | Read Write Collect

Read Bookmark: I Am Sorry by Aaron DavisAaron Davis (Read Write Collect)
Pernille Ripe reflects on life as a connected educator. She discusses the stress, anxieties and perceived responsibilities that come with being an educelebrity. Although we often talk about the technicalities associated with being (digitally) literate, what is sometimes overlooked are the social con...

👓 Social media detox: Christina Farr quits Instagram, Facebook | CNBC

Read I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier — and that's a big problem for social media by Christina Farr (CNBC)
Christina Farr used to spend 5 hours a week posting and interacting with friends on Instagram. She quit cold this summer, and her life changed dramatically for the better.

👓 Pausing Twitter | Pernille Ripp

Read Pausing Twitter by Pernille RippPernille Ripp (Pernille Ripp)
Please change my Twitter password…
These were the words I texted my husband on November 18th as I traveled home from NCTE.  Exhausted yet fulfilled, I knew my brain needed a break from the constant stream of learning that Twitter provides me with.  Take a break fully in order to be more present ...

👓 I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me a lot happier — and that’s a big problem for social media companies | Stephen Downes

Read I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me a lot happier — and that's a big problem for social media companie by Stephen DownesStephen Downes (downes.ca)
This is yet another example of a genre called "quit lit". It's the post someone writes when they've quit something. These days, what they're mostly likely quitting is social media like Facebook and Twitter. Both have become toxic, serving a bottomless bowl of trivial content, abuse, and advertising. And yet, until the day they quit, people keep going back. But this trend is accelerating - when I quit Facebook more than two years ago, it was unthinkable, but now it's a phenomenon that threatens the company's bottom line. How can they fix it? I'm not sure they can.

👓 Pausing Twitter | Read Write Collect

Read Pausing Twitter by Aaron DavisAaron Davis (Read Write Collect)
This is another insightful reflection from Pernille Ripp. It continues on from her apology earlier this year for stepping back. It makes me wonder what happens to the ‘edu-influencer‘ when they step back? As much agree with Joe Sanfileppo about the power and potential of being connected, what happens when those people stop answering?
Some of this reminds me a bit of CAA’s mantra to have their agents try to occupy all the buying executives’ time within their coverage areas with CAA clients calls and meetings as a means of not only controlling the conversation, but preventing the competition from having a chance.

I’m also reminded of Kathleen Fitzgerald’s recent post Engage. Disengage. Repeat.

👓 the web, my web, and an open web | asuh.com

Read the web, my web, and an open web by Micah Micah (asuh.com)
Being back at asuh.com is satisfying. I’ve started new again, renewing a passion I once had, and I’m excited for things to come. Before I knew it was probably my career, creating on the Internet (capital ‘I’ at the time) became a new puzzle I enjoyed solving. I spent the late 1990s and early...

👓 Something Weird is Happening on Twitter Right Now. | THE TEMPERED RADICAL

Read Something weird is happening on Twitter right now. (THE TEMPERED RADICAL)
Guys. Check it out in the stream of comments that follow this Dean Shareski tweet: I’m suspect of educators whose entire feed is a cacophony…

👓 Former doctoral student arrested for involvement in 2017 Charlottesville riots | Daily Bruin

Read Former doctoral student arrested for involvement in 2017 Charlottesville riots by Megana Sekar (UCLA Daily Bruin)

A former UCLA doctoral student was arrested with federal conspiracy charges for his involvement in the 2017 Charlottesville riots in Virginia, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Michael Miselis was arrested and charged with conspiracy for traveling to Virginia “with the intent to encourage, promote, incite, participate in, and commit violent acts” along with three other California men, all of whom were part of Rise Above Movement, according to an affidavit of FBI officer Dino Cappuzzo. The group meets in public parks around Southern California and trains in fighting techniques, according to the affidavit.

👓 KTLA’s Chris Burrous Dead After Possible Overdose: Police | PEOPLE.com

Read Beloved Los Angeles Morning News Anchor Chris Burrous Dead After Possible Overdose: Police (PEOPLE.com)
Burrous was  found unresponsive in a Glendale, California Days Inn on Thursday afternoon

👓 Tumble log xyz

Read Tumble log like it’s 2005 (tumblelog.xyz)
A domain to delegate your tumblr to so it is no longer under tumblr.com.
This stops the Oath interstital showing up, and I am told it also measn that your flagged content is still available. I haven't verified that - if it works for you, do please tell me.
Take these steps: Go to www.tumblr.com/sett...
Apparently Kevin Marks has managed an awesome workaround for Tumblr’s filter by allowing you to re-delegate your Tumblr to another domain. Hopefully people have learned their lesson and own their own domain, but it’s useful if you’ve been trapped.

👓 Words I wrote in 2018 | Adactio: Journal

Read Words I wrote in 2018 by Jeremy KeithJeremy Keith
I wrote just shy of a hundred blog posts in 2018. That’s an increase from 2017. I’m happy about that. Here are some posts that turned out okay…
I’m thinking I should sift through my 2018 and highlight a few things as well.

👓 Trump Administration Suggests Furloughed Workers Do Chores for Landlords to Help Pay Rent | The Daily Beast

Read Trump Administration Suggests Furloughed Workers Do Chores for Landlords to Help Pay Rent (The Daily Beast)
Nearly 800,000 federal workers lack a paying job because of the shutdown.
For Trump, a landlord, this sounds exactly like what he’s been asking the American people to do for him for two years now.