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Mar. 31st, 2006 12:07 amThings on this front are about to get hectic. Papers are starting to come down the pipe for being due. I did, however, assure myself of at least having something to do over the summer. It's not paid, so it sits somewhat in the back of the queue for acceptance, but it's a good thought, and if it can get something with it that will pay, I'll be very happy and that will improve its standing considerably. So I've got plenty to do, along with a monster string of intramural refereeing set up for the next two weeks. So paper time is a premium now. I'm going to love my weekends, perhaps.Anyway, here's the other detritus that clutters my web browsers.
An update on Scalia's rude gesture: here's a photo. Considering that an expletive was with it, there's no doubt that the Justice did something akin to flipping the bird. Isn't that a lovely thought - Scalia's finally expressing what the entire administration and its appointees really think about us.
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las tells us about some of the things to keep in mind when you want good service from the techs.
Regardless of its truth-value, one could conceive of this story happening at a Wal-Mart near you. So read all about the associate who had no ribbon to sell for Mardi Gras. As it turns out, the colours probably weren't right for what was being thought of, but again, regardless of truth-value, I can clearly imagine the exchanges in question happening somewhere in this country, not necessarily at a Wal-Mart, perhaps, but somewhere.
Speaking of Wal-Mart, apparently a mother purchased a DVD player from there and found out that the tray wasn't empty when she turned it on. What was in it? Pr0n, of course. And her children were exposed to a small amount of it, so much that apparently the mother is looking into counseling for them. I'm torn between "Eh, they'll be seeing more of that in their lives anyway" and "Hrm. Might have been a bit too young to see something like that." (Horrible of me, isn't it?)
Georgia high schools have begun to offer courses of study on the Bible. This would not necessarily be a bad thing in and of itself, if we were certain that the course could be taught stripped of any religious message at all. We're not certain, and we do agree with the poster that there are far too many thorny issues to still be worked out before such a thing can be offered. Plus, there's no comparative element, and that immediately sinks the proposal in my mind.
In side-by-side comparisons, two articles. The first, The chimps could be out-evolving us. The second, the schools are using MEINDPOWERZ to CONTROL KIDS, oh noez! Well, Skinnerian behaviourist techniques, which apparently reduce our God-given free will to animal training (the God-given facet doesn't surface until the end) One wonders how much of this is alarmism and how much of it is the deplorable condition many schools are in, being so very strapped for resources that they cannot educate at all.
An update on Scalia's rude gesture: here's a photo. Considering that an expletive was with it, there's no doubt that the Justice did something akin to flipping the bird. Isn't that a lovely thought - Scalia's finally expressing what the entire administration and its appointees really think about us.
A rule that cannot be stated often enough: Be nice to your tech support!.
las tells us about some of the things to keep in mind when you want good service from the techs. Regardless of its truth-value, one could conceive of this story happening at a Wal-Mart near you. So read all about the associate who had no ribbon to sell for Mardi Gras. As it turns out, the colours probably weren't right for what was being thought of, but again, regardless of truth-value, I can clearly imagine the exchanges in question happening somewhere in this country, not necessarily at a Wal-Mart, perhaps, but somewhere.
Speaking of Wal-Mart, apparently a mother purchased a DVD player from there and found out that the tray wasn't empty when she turned it on. What was in it? Pr0n, of course. And her children were exposed to a small amount of it, so much that apparently the mother is looking into counseling for them. I'm torn between "Eh, they'll be seeing more of that in their lives anyway" and "Hrm. Might have been a bit too young to see something like that." (Horrible of me, isn't it?)
Georgia high schools have begun to offer courses of study on the Bible. This would not necessarily be a bad thing in and of itself, if we were certain that the course could be taught stripped of any religious message at all. We're not certain, and we do agree with the poster that there are far too many thorny issues to still be worked out before such a thing can be offered. Plus, there's no comparative element, and that immediately sinks the proposal in my mind.
In side-by-side comparisons, two articles. The first, The chimps could be out-evolving us. The second, the schools are using MEINDPOWERZ to CONTROL KIDS, oh noez! Well, Skinnerian behaviourist techniques, which apparently reduce our God-given free will to animal training (the God-given facet doesn't surface until the end) One wonders how much of this is alarmism and how much of it is the deplorable condition many schools are in, being so very strapped for resources that they cannot educate at all.
