Friday, December 4

Today is Friday of Week 14. Yes, it really is Friday again! Here is a link to Week 14 and also to Week 15. If you can finish up the class either today or over the weekend, that will give you time next week to prepare for finals in your other classes. Here's more info about finishing up in this class.

Class Procedures and Reminders

Week 14 Blog comments. As you'll see, there's something different this week: you can add to the Advice Padlet as part of this week's blog commenting! Details here: Week 14 Blog Comments.

Project stack. I've got just a few projects in the stack, and I should be able to reply to everybody today. As usual, you can check the stack to make sure I got your project.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog stream. It's always when fun to see the microfiction people are doing, and here are two stories paired up... ominously for the fish, as you can imagine. Here's Ann Marie's post: Fish and Cats.


100-Word Stories. And here's a story about Anansi tricking some foolish fish: Anansi and the Fish-Children.


Twitter stream. From the OU Daily, an article about Jamelia Reed and her new book: OU student publishes book.


Some gorgeous Durga art from India: the goddess versus the water-buffalo demon.


And did you know that in ancient Rome there was a fixed number of hours in the day, so when the daylight was less in winter the hours were shorter, and then in summer the hours were longer because there was more daylight? Telling time: it's a cultural thing! This tweet shows how that worked:


Storybook. And here's a Storybook about curses and reincarnation over time: Reverberations of Time.


And if you're facing a time-crunch at the end of the semester, here's a fun procrastination flowchart (larger view):


Meanwhile, everyone needs friends, even T-Rex. A cartoon from Dinoman:


And music for the weekend: a T-Rex song to enjoy... sung by none other than Samuel Jackson!


December 4: Omar Khayyam. Today marks the death in the year 1131 of the great Persian poet and scholar, Omar Khayyam. He is best known in the West for his collection of poems called the Rubaiyat, and he is also renowned as a mathematician and astronomer. You can read more about Omar Khayyam's remarkable life and career in this Wikipedia article, and there is a wonderful statue of Khayyam outside Farzaneh Hall:


Here is a video with some of his famous poetry:



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