The Referee is NOT blind! Posted by John on January 14, 2000 at 16:04:22:
In Reply to: Afew questions posted by Douglas on January 13, 2000 at 11:05:55:
Yes, you caught me, on that four-page posting ("...sauce for the
gander.), Doug! Ha! I broke my own rule. — In the midst of all this
"spirited" play, the scenario seems to bring your "referee" out into the
field, I notice—a quality of your Player/Judge, cf. "playing by the
rules." :-) And you're absolutely right. I was completely asleep on
the one-page limit I'd originally proposed for this thread six days
before that. And you had a perfect right to "call me on it." I didn't
remember there was any such proposed limit when I put that four-pager in
there. Obviously, that's an example of the coach being asleep. Good
eye! The referee was NOT blind! Thanks.
It was neat that you mentioned my intentional forbearance from cussing
in the same context. The "one-page limit" was "an exercise," and I went
to sleep on it. Undertaking not to act-out the familiar old Rebel
expletives that I used to use so frequently in Classroom Talk, has also
been "an awareness exercise" for me, a "transformative exercise."
As you may have guessed, there have been times when I've been on the
verge of "blowing it" on that . . . but so far, so good. No, I haven't
minded not using those kinds of words in class that much, really. It's
just an exercise in getting off habitual personality behavior. I'm used
to doing these. I pick out different things to "work on." One
habitual trait is as good as another for this kind of "transformative
work."
Coach
On that one-page limit issue, by the way, it appears that you and Jeff
are doing magnificently with two pages lately, so my experience tells me
that seems more realistic for what we're doing here. Let's see if it
works in continuing this thread to have a two-page max, okay? (And my
own "container" gets a little bigger here than it was that day when I
said "one page limit.")
I asked Brent if he can answer your technical question about HTML. Or
can you just try it, and see what happens?
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