Tuesdays with Muerte

Photo of my roommate Scotty and me, waiting for the next game of Monday Night Volleyball. This is a video journal post.  I just wanted to be able to show my kids, when I'm 50, that I could actually jump when I was 30. Indoor volleyball and tennis are my two favorite Winter sports.  I will avoid being out in the cold whenever I don't have to be.

I thought I would never ever like Dubstep.  However, this video of Maceo's dance crew proved me wrong.  I'm beginning to see that, like every art form, there are at least some appropriate examples.  This video legitimized Dubstep for me.  The dance worked really well with the music.  (Best part 2:10.)   Dom obviously doesn't know everything there is to know about Dubstep.  (Warning: Dom is a Guido and uses some PG-13 language.)

Analysis What does it mean?

Too much Haagen Dazs too fast will freeze the brains of lesser men. As for you, press your tongue flat against the roof of your mouth, covering as much as you can. "Since the nerves in the roof of your mouth get extremely cold, your body thinks your brain is freezing, too," says Abo. "In compensating, it overheats, causing an ice-cream headache." The more pressure you apply to the roof of your mouth, the faster your headache will subside. 20 more remedies for brain freezes

Bobo Doll In Friedrich and Stein (1972) performed The Mister Rogers study: Procedures : A group of preschoolers watched Mister Rogers every weekday for four consecutive weeks. Result : Children from lower socioeconomic communities were easier to handle and more open about their feelings. Yates, B.L. (1999). Modeling Strategies for Prosocial Television: A Review. Retrieved October 6, 2010 from the world wide web: http://www.westga.edu/~byates/prosocia.htm

Regarding positive and negative reinforcement, VitalSmarts's  Change Anything  research reveals that people fear losing their stuff more than they desire to acquire something that they could have. So here's how to apply the research on road trips: before leaving on a road trip , give each child a $10 roll of quarters. Tell them they spend it on anything he wants when you arrive — but that every time they ask “Are we there yet?” or pester a sibling, you will take a quarter. I wish I’d made this one up, but I didn’t. I read it somewhere. Wonderfully devious. (P.S. You get to spend the quarters on anything you want, too. Or save them for the same tactic on the way home.) Source: http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/

Scarey commercial [long cut] ... don't worry--happy ending!