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Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. I just completed another school year. I am trying to see where I have been ... and where I am going. Speaking of "all money ain't good money"... I have known for several years that school finance facilitates most of the inco...

Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. I just completed another school year. I am trying to see where I have been ... and where I am going. Our recent pandemic gave us this art. It is art that visualizes (and hides) data culled from hundreds of anecdotal experien...

Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. I just completed another school year. I am trying to see where I have been ... and where I am going. A friend analyzed our school environment many years ago. They asked me to vet their data-driven findings ... for accountabi...

Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. I just completed another school year. I am trying to see where I have been ... and where I am going. Math standards changed again this year. Math, though, has not changed. Math is still as universal a language as music. It i...

Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. I just completed another school year. I am trying to see where I have been ... and where I am going. In January 2024, my daughter's school won their district level reading bowl ... a reading bowl named for Helen Ruffin ... a...

Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. I just completed another school year. I am trying to see where I have been ... and where I am going. Let's move away from analyzing the status quo. Let's move toward discussing hope, healing, and substantive change. Our worl...

Dear Hannah - I'm a #StandupStoryteller. I'm the "Brother From Another Planet". Strange people think I am strange. I think that what I experience is strange. And still I rise. I just completed another school year. I am trying to see where I have been ... and where I am going. A friend analyzed our school environment many years ago. They asked me to vet their data-driven findings ... for accountabi...

‘Smart’ buildings merge environmentally responsible design with embedded (“hidden”) computing technology (powered by lots of sensors). This podcast lesson introduces ‘smart’ buildings that rely on ‘The Internet Of Things’ (a massive Web of ‘connected’ personal devices and appliances). It concludes by asking student teams to ‘unplug’ and use only their “Spidey senses” (an innate ability to sense pr...

This podcast lesson introduces students to Artificial Intelligence by showing how Boolean Algebra (a system of symbolic logic) can be used to represent “rules” in a virtual world (a video game or simulation). Teams of 3-4 students will then build and present a virtual world by using Boolean Algebra to create a consistent set of “rules” based on propositions (statements that affirm or deny somethin...

This song exhorts you to ... make your dreams come true through direct, strategic action ... move your character towards faith and love through humility and confidence ... move with coordination and balance ... and move those you influence through thought leadership.

This song tells young people (and old people) that ... life is going to happen ... take the good with the bad, and keep going ... and let your principles and your conscience be your guide

"(I Have Learned To Respect) The Power Of Love". NOT ... that "Always & Forever" love ... that "Float On" love ... that "Outstanding" love ... that "Yearning For Your Love" love ... that "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday" love ... that "Computer" love ... that "For The Love Of You" love. That "Cry Together" love ... that "You Don't Have To Cry" love ... that "Brea...

"(I Have Learned To Respect) The Power Of Love". NOT ... that "Always & Forever" love ... that "Float On" love ... that "Outstanding" love ... that "Yearning For Your Love" love ... that "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday" love ... that "Computer" love ... that "For The Love Of You" love. That "Cry Together" love ... that "You Don't Have To Cry" love ... that "Brea...

It is time for Daddy to take it to the stage ... to use the crowd to gauge ... the best ways to engage ... cats of a different age.

It is time for Daddy to take it to the stage ... to use the crowd to gauge ... the best ways to engage ... cats of a different age.

Fail quietly and learn. I know that losing is tiresome - but it sharpens your sword. Keep your friends close, engaged, and aware of your actions. Immerse yourself in a faithful, visionary, supportive, disciplined, hard-working culture ... you are going to need it!

today may seem bleak ... yesterday seemed bleaker ... be slow to speak ... check first the speaker ... payback sounds chic ... to forgive is "chic-er" ... meek ain't weak ... might is weaker ... wrong is strong ... love is stronger ... war is long ... peace lasts longer

this cold, cold world will tell you "no" many times, and in many ways ... but you don't need anyone's permission to ... keep tryin' ... speak your peace ... be yourself ... and - most of all ... be great

Dear Hannah, I hope I have focused on "doing too much" the way I intended. In conclusion, I don't like to hear that phrase. I do keep it in mind, though, to help stay on course. I have not achieved my potential, but I have hit my stride. Because half my story has never been told ... Love, Daddy

Dear Hannah, Writing is organized thought. Speaking is organized noise. They are inextricably linked. Sometimes written words can say what the voice cannot ... depending on who is listening (or not). Sometimes the voice can say what written words cannot ... depending on who is reading (or not). So both are arrows in the quiver that I deliver as truthgiver ... Love, Daddy

Dear Hannah, I have now hit my stride as a content creator. I am in my “renaissance”. This renaissance has been fueled by the creative environment I built and now maintain. In the last 3 years (2016-2018), I have now written, recorded, produced, and published ... Love, Daddy

Dear Hannah, I bought a house in 2009, and started to "grow up" (at the age of 40). No more labs and warehouses in my apartment ... at least no permanent ones. No space to store 60 desktop PCs. Only a small office that I now wanted to look like an office (most of the time). It had a double-door closet, and room for 2 small bookshelves and a big desk. I knew I could make it work, though, if I made...

Dear Hannah, The year after I graduated high school (1988), I returned home and went to an auction sponsored by my old school district. They were auctioning old band instruments and instrument cases. I walked in to see my old high school assistant principal asking for bids on a baritone saxophone. No one was bidding. He turned and saw me, knew that I had been on the marching band, and asked me if...

Dear Hannah, I had a dream. I wanted to make movies like Spike Lee ... without appearing in them. I wanted to make music like Quincy Jones ... produce albums with my name on them (but not using my voice). I wanted to take pictures like Gordon Parks - for Web sites and CD / DVD slideshows, not magazines ... because I was not big on printing photos (too much ink). I wanted to make a Black Yahoo! (po...

Dear Hannah, Let's get this out of the way first. It is correct and proper to say "the data show us". It sounds awkward, though. It is more useful (and less awkward) to say "the data shows". See what I did there? I illustrated the biggest problem I discovered during my introduction to the world of "big data". I saw data used to engage in shallow, silly arguments about who and what is "correct" ......