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August 1, 2009

What is TechShorties?

via youtube.com

For the past several months, I've been developing a Learning Management System (LMS) for TechShorties.com. We teach real estate agents how to use tools like Twitter and Facebook to cultivate relationships rather than simply tweeting out their listings or talking about their next "open house."

We're calling our LMS the TechShorties Integrated Learning Environment (ILE). Based on WordPress, the interface features multiple modules (i.e. WP categories) filled with lessons on best practice use of online social media tools.

I've programmed the single post pages to only display a user's comments. In other words, this lets users leave themselves notes on each post. For discussion of the posts/lessons, I've added a plugin which automatically creates a forum posting in our integrated phpBB install.

There's much more to say about this, but for now the video above gives a good introduction to TechShorties and our WordPress Powered Integrated Learning Environment.

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January 12, 2009

TiltShift Knoxville

Here are a couple of nice tiltshift shots of downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. Tiltshift photos are photos of real locations manipulated to look like minatures. I created these particular images via TiltShiftMaker.com.

   

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September 5, 2008

Trailer for Spike Lee's WWII Film


Miracle at St. Anna, a Spike Lee film, tells the story of four black American soldiers, members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" division, stationed in Tuscany, Italy during WWII. Given my penchant for WWII films, I look forward to seeing this one when it comes out.

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August 26, 2008

The Double Stuf Racing League

Peyton and Eli were men enough to join the DSRL. Are you? ;)

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August 23, 2008

Chicken Fried Bacon

Warning: While watching this video, grease may ooze out of your keyboard and your cholesterol may shoot up 80 points. Enjoy!


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August 21, 2008

Fascinating Photo Study: Women in Film

Philip Scott Johnson shows off his mastery of photo-morphing in this short featuring 80 years of female actresses in cinema:


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August 11, 2008

Fantastique! Americans Beat French in 4x100 Freestyle Relay

Pre-race, Alain Bernard, French swimmer:

"The Americans? We’re going to smash them. That’s what we came here for."

Post race, Cullen Jones, USA Gold Medal winner, Men's 4x100 freestyle relay:

"We love listening to other people talk stuff about us cause it just fuels us to be ready, and we don’t say anything until it’s over."

Read my full write up.

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August 9, 2008

Recipe: Four Veggie Pizza

Since discovering this recipe last week, Beth and I have already made it twice. We both agree it is one of the best homemade pizzas we've had in a long time. Check out this visual recipe:

           

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August 6, 2008

Tijuana and San Diego Photos

Last week, Beth and I arrived back from our 2008 Mexico Mission Trip in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. We spent July 19 through 26 in Mexico followed by a couple of days in San Diego. The trip exceeded our expectations. We are blessed with some great friends in Mexico, and our time spent with the women at the Women with Purpose Shelter was a treasure. I've started writing some of my reflections, and I hope to publish them in the coming weeks. In the meantime, enjoy some photos from our trip:

                     

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August 6, 2008

Light a Candle, Magically

I've known about this trick for a while (I think I saw it on Mr. Wizard when I was a kid); however, I have yet to personally meet anyone who is familiar with it. The video included with this post demonstrates the trick:

  1. Blow out a lit candle.
  2. Allow the smoke to rise from the wick.
  3. Hold a flame in the smoke rising from the wick.
  4. Watch as the candle "magically" re-lights.

If I remember correctly, I believe what's happening is that the flame causes the combustible materials in the smoke to ignite sending the flame back down the smoke to the wick.

Have you ever seen this trick before?

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