A find on Facebook this week. An interesting animation of getting sucked into a game (Tron-style) and escaping from it ;-)  The music needed a little better intro, but the visual synched pretty nicely with the audio once things got going!

Recently I finished watching the show Quantum Leap. The show ran from 1989 to 1993, which means that I barely missed it when I returned to the US, and no television channel was showing it in Greece prior to that. However, it was one of those shows that was referenced by the teachers when I was in high school, and by others in general society. This means that I also missed any references made to

This comic strip of Jurassic Trek .... well... just facepalm... (original archive here)

I came across this comic last week...but I am not sure I get it.  I do play hearthstone (casually), and I've unlocked all classes, but not quite sure what this means... Thoughts?

It is really nuts to think that this is a man-made disaster. This drone aerial footage shows the devastation in just one Syrian city (Homs). It would be sad enough if this were the outcome of some sort of natural disaster, something like an earthquake, but to think that this is totally preventable and that fellow humans enacted such violence on other humans in our day and age is despicable.

ROFL - "bring me my precious!!!" ;-)

Well... that was... interesting to say the least! Just yesterday I was writing about Lore going away...it seems that Pearson is also getting out of the LMS business as well.  I noticed this on Pearson's OpenClass website: OpenClass will retire on January 1, 2018 On January 1, 2018, OpenClass will no longer be available to faculty, students, or administrators, and as of today, no new accounts

Well, I guess the free LMS/social network Lore is going away soon!  I just got this email message the other day from the folks at Lore: I had joined Lore back in the days when it was called CourseKit.  The product, and the company, was created by a bunch of undergraduate students who wanted their face to face professors to use technology in the classroom - at least that's what the

Χά, χά. Τις προάλλες θυμήθηκα τα pep rally που είχαμε στο λύκειο. Την πρώτη φορά που είχαμε ένα τέτοιο pep rally μας είχαν βάλει να πάμε σε ένα τέτοιο pep rallyήταν κατά την περίοδο που είχα μάθημα ESL. Σε ένα pep rally πάει όλο το σχολείο

This comic strip of Jurassic Trek makes fun of the Vulcan live and long and prosper ?! ;-) (original archive here)