Jamie Burnside

Jamie Burnside

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For those of you following this thread, read the above post. It is fantastic. Now I have seen the second Spider Man movie. There seemed to be a bit of foreshadowing of Harry Osbourne becoming a second Green Goblin or a Hobgoblin. I think that if they go with that, it will be a bit of a letdown. If they choose to, here is one fan that hopes that they'll double-up on the bad guys.<

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For those of you who regularily read what I write, you probably know that I am an avid follower of Japanese sumo. I videotape and watch each day's matches during each Grand Sumo Tournament. (I'd watch them live, but they're broadcast from 2:30-4:30 AM here in Minnesota.) **At the end of next week, I will have the opportunity to see some matches live in my "hometown" in Japan. Yay! To make it even more interesting, I have begun to play an online sumo ga

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Last school year I worked at three different schools as an ESL specialist. At each school, there was at least one kid who would play around with me by calling me "Mr. Crab." Each time I heard it I was a bit confused. Why are kids who go to different schools and don't know each other coming up with the same nickname for me? Well, I figured it out today. There is a character on "SpongeBob Squarepants" that is named Mr. Krabs. He is the owner of

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Hello there friends! I am enjoying a Friday evening here at the computer. My wife, son, and I have just come home from a nice dinner at a restaurant in Saint Paul. My friend Andy and his wife Chialing hosted a post-wedding party for family and friends living in Minnesota. (They were married a year-and-a-half ago in Taiwan, but they had a sort of "wedding reception" for visiting inlaws from Taiwan, as well as American friends.) I guess that my

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Funny stuff Trina. It all sounds so familiar. Our little guy here loves the TV remote and the controller for the PlayStation! (I could have written this article about our baby. Funny.) Little Kenny gets a kick out of hearing Judge Judy's name. If I say "Judge Judy" to him, he laughs. I wonder why...

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I know for a fact that the people on both sides of this issue are lieing at least a bit. You should just dump all of your current friends and get to work on making a whole group of new ones. (There's no sense being friends with anyone who either gossips, or is the subject of gossip.) At least that's the most prudent course.

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Hey there. Excuse me for changing the subject: Thanks to your recent article about RUSH, my interest in the band had been rekindled. I heard the new "Summertime Blues" cover on the radio a couple of weeks ago, and I decided to get their new "Feedback" EP when it came out. (That was today.) It is a good one. I recommend that you get it too. They took some overplayed "Classic" rock songs that everyone in North America is (or at least should be) si

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I didn't get those clothes, but I don't think that I have seen my sister since the time that you said that you gave those clothes to her. As of right now, we don't buy clothes for the baby that are smaller than 12-18 months. 18 months are a bit big for him now, but he seems to go through the sizes really quickly.

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Hello there friends! I hope that you're having a happy week. This afternoon after I came back from work, I went to play on the computer. As I was playing, I heard my wife say from the other room: "Hey... Kenny is crawling." That was quite a surprise. Until this afternoon he seemed like he was about to crawl, but it may be a while before he is able to. Then in an instant he put it all together and was able to crawl around the room. I grabbed the

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Hello there! I have been teaching a class this summer for my newcomer students who have fairly low English skills. The term is almost over, and I feel that we have made a lot of progress. I have been working through a textbook (and accompanying videos) named "Side By Side" (and Side By Side TV.) For as long as I have been teaching ESL, the books in that series have been my favorite to use! They have clear, repetitive, and humorous exercizes focusing on

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The good news is that this article that you've written will be well-received. It is introspective and insightful, and will be worthy of comment. I think this article will get you "featured" for a day or so. Have you had a "featured" article before? If you haven't, you should be for this one. (Just go back into the last paragraph and press "Return" a few times, it'll make it easier to read.) Good job.

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On April 30th I wrote an article about seeing a bunny in the yard . It was a big one! Since then, I have seen that bunny (and another one) hanging around in various places in my yard. Today as I was mowing the lawn, another little guy ran out of the bushes as I was walking past. I followed him around the house, and caught up with the little one next to my garage. (For some reason, rabbits like

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Hey there friends! I hope that all of you are have had a happy weekend. It is Sunday night, and I will have to go to work tomorrow. Monday is the first day of the last four days of work this school year. My half-day summer school class ends on Thursday. Yay! I am looking forward to having a happy and restful summer. ***** As my regular readers know, I have been working on a garden this year. Yesterday I harvested the first "fr

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Hey there friends. It is a nice, lazy Saturday afternoon. My wife and baby are asleep in the bed, and I am just playing around on the computer. Our afternoon plans have been canceled, so I will have to figure out what we can do after the two of them wake up. Every-so-often when I am killing time on the computer, I enjoy visiting a website called My Raaga.com . There is a huge collection of free Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu songs

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Getting mostly As shows that your daughter is a motivated student. Is this C- her first low grade? If it is, ask her how she feels about it. Maybe she's disappointed in herself enough that she'll try a bit harder in that subject next year. I think that it is more important to help kids establish internal motivation than to punish failure.

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You missed a few. "Beavis and Butthead" is good. (I am a Mike Judge fan. I like King of the Hill too.) So is "Space Ghost Coast to Coast." That show was revolutionary. My friends and I used to watch that one as undergrads. Actually aside from those I listed (and the Simpsons,) I guess that I don't really care all that much for cartoons. I guess that I liked Voltron when I was an early-teenager.

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Until a few months ago, BBCAmerica had been broadcasting a clever chat show called "So Graham Norton." For long stretches over the past few years, I would watch "So Graham Norton" nightly on BBCAmerica before heading off to bed. I really enjoyed the show, Graham's sense of humor, and his high-B/low-A-list guests. When Graham Norton agreed to do a new show on Comedy Central, BBCA pulled his show. We went through a few months here without Grahasm and his show.

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Regarding WB Superstar USA: Jamie was the most marketable. She sings poorly, but she is attractive enough to sell a lot of records. Mario was weird, but the world doesn't need another William Hung, does it? Rosa was my favorite, but I don't think she's as marketable as Jamie.

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