My mugs shots: 5
What's the message about the mug in the photo for today?
Here’s the nest1 in the series of posts about the beverage mugs from which I drink my coffee or, as one Dear Reader noted in a comment a few mugs ago, cream with a dash of coffee. If you’ve been reading right along, you know that a lot of coffee gets consumed here at Special Education Today central.
Here we have one with a bird motif. Many dear readers will be able to contextualize the owl as consistent with a recurrent SET theme about birds. The bird theme here on SET may not be as important as other themes readers could name such as kids’ rights, effective instruction, evidence, etc. (name on: Add your favorite themes in the comments!). But, I think it’s safe to say that there have been plenty of posts about birds here.
I don’t recall how this mug (and a companion one) came into our house. They’re here, though, and I use them. I probably should publish a photo of the other one so that readers can see the specific differences between them in learning the concept “JohnL’s Mugs.” (Remember the post about “tove” in which we examined the importance of multiple examples.)
I won’t be able to display a few of my all-time favorite mugs. Two have gone on to the Great Lost Mug collection (you may have seen a display of this collection in an office kitchen at a place of work). I had one that my colleague Michael K. liked; as I recall, it featured a horizontal line and the message “The mug is half empty.” Another was clear glass and featured an abstract, curvy, vertical line; it was a finisher’s award from the Balitmore Road Runners’ “NCR Marathon.”)2
I think I know the location of a third favorite mug. It was very simple (light and delicate, too) and featured the old logotype for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis with the letters “JABA” prominently displayed on it. It was one of two that I had; I broke one and Shanna H., who is now in Maryland, got the other one. It should be in Maryland a the house of Shanna H.
What’s your favorite mug (or mug shot) so far, Dear Readers?
Yours, sincerely,
Cafe Writer
Footnote
To see the previous mugs shots in this series, follow these links: My mugs shots: 1, 2, 3, and 4.
I earned the finisher award in 1993 when I ran my first marathon in the company of my late pal, Jack Chapman, who ran it as a training run. If you dig through the results of the race, you’ll find me identified as “Slobote Lloyd.” I often used jokey pseudonyms on race entry forms during those years. “Sloboteæ (sound it out) and “A. King” were among them. I don’t think the race folks give mugs any longer. I still have the shirt, I think…have to dig through the boxes to find it.