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For reasons that even I don’t understand, I find myself thinking a lot about improving schools. And yesterday was one of those joyous experiences where several different thoughts suddenly overlapped, forming something new. One of my professors is an adjunct professor who teaches at several different schools. And she was talking about how it seemed [...]
Even if you have no clean spoons, eating out of measuring spoons is not a good idea. They’re pretty deep, which makes it hard to eat out of. The good news is that I know exactly how many teaspoons of Dip n’ Dots I had.
I finally got around to processing some of the pictures I took this past weekend. I wanted to share a few. How does that one look? I like to think it passes as a ‘normal’ shot. What’s not evident is that it was underexposed, poorly metered, had a nasty green color cast, and had everything [...]
One of my professors mentioned an e-mail her coworker just received from a student (a junior!). It began, “sup hom.”
We’re hosting an Super Tuesday Party on campus. I’ve got three TVs on, and I’m going to experiment with the “liveblogging” fad here, at least until I lose interest in posting here and get caught up in cheering (or booing) here. Rumor has it that exit polls are showing a lot of races even closer [...]
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19 Jan 2008I’ve been working on my resume as I seek to apply for a job that’s a neat blend of multiple interests–managing web projects (even in my preferred LAMP environment), politics, and even a management potential. And as I do it, I’m remembering all the stuff I did at FIRST, and reflecting on how much better [...]
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20 Dec 2007My whole family drives Toyotas. We love America and all, but we want good, solid cars. The U.S. is, understandably, concerned about how much oil we’re using. So we’re trying for a requirement that, by 2020, all cars sold get 35mpg at a minimum. Of course, the car companies are complaining that this is going [...]
I don’t think there’s a mnemonic aid for “mnemonic,” but I’m studying for a law exam, and it’s insanely conducive to various visual associations: Engel v. Vitale, the 1962 case that ruled that mandatory school prayer was an Establishment Clause violation. (You think?) Remember angels and that some thought it was vital to pray. A [...]
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4 Dec 2007No, not that one. I consider myself a talented writer. And I’m obsessive-compulsive about things being well-written. So giving me access to edit things is a recipe for awesome. So I was doing some research for class. My research into Lynch v. Donnelly made me realize that the page was pitiful. So I cleaned it [...]
In a hypothetical business proposal, when you can’t find anything but a blunt way to put a strategy, say it even more bluntly and put a trademark symbol after it. We sell “None of the CrapTM” that other stores do.