I am running and riding in the Team Ortho Minneapolis Dualathon (5k run–18 mile bike–5k run) in less than two weeks.  Should be a great race.  It is now the largest dualathon in the U.S.  I haven’t been training real hard (bad knees), but I know I can finish–and to me that’s the best part.
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I was typing this recipe for Lizzy, so I figured I would give it to you too.
Snert–a Dutch pea soup and the recipe comes form the Holland America Cruise Line Cookbook: A Taste of Excellence (You should buy this book great stuff in there).  Yummy!
Snert (yield 12 servings)
1 pound green split peas (do not soak)
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I just signed up to run the Monster Dash 10 Mile race on Oct 31, 2009.  It is the day I turn 40, so if I am slow I have an excuse.  Click here for the course:

Mattieu Ricard discusses Happiness.  What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment.
After training in biochemistry at the Institute Pasteur, Matthieu Ricard left science behind to move to the [...]

Mihaly Chsikszentmihaly discusses Flow.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. A leading researcher in positive psychology, he has devoted his life to studying what makes people truly happy: “When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.” He [...]

An interesting discussion from Dr. Martin Seligman.  Fran suggested I check it out.
Martin Seligman founded the field of positive psychology in 2000, and has devoted his career since then to furthering the study of positive emotion, positive character traits, and positive institutions. It’s a fascinating field of study that had few empirical, scientific measures — [...]

This is for Maddy! Enjoy!

Building the LEGO Millennium Falcon from Gizmodo on Vimeo.

I was just introduced to this resource yesterday.  It is a visual way to search, store, and share web pages.  It is a really nice way to collect resources for teaching and gather them into one place and then share them with students.  Here is the Stacks Widget–try it out:

You can find Stacks at:

http://www.searchme.com
http://www.searchme.com/stacks/