tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55482352011-04-21T15:34:10.378-05:00"The diffusion of knowledge is the only true guardian of liberty." -James MadisonRicohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.comBlogger5141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1158280937234386812006-09-14T19:42:00.000-05:002006-09-14T19:42:17.270-05:00

Issues with the "A"

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I Hate CilantroListen to these people! They know what they're talking about!

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TheStar.com - How to spot a baby conservative: "Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident,

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My e-mail was published in C.J.'s column:Tom Butler bugs him"Maybe I just miss Tim Sherno, or maybe it's just me, but does it seem like Tom Butler is always trying to 'one-up' the other people on the FOX9 news set? He seems to always have a fact or comment ready after somebody else says something, mostly to show he's smarter than everybody else." Rico Suave.Dear Rico: I miss Tim also, but Tom's a

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During the news coverage of Kirby Puckett's death, I saw this on Channel 5. Do they know something we don't know?

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I really hope Surly Brewing Company works out. First, because it's always good to have more choices.Second, because it seems that they put a whole lot of work into their swag and tap handles and neon signs... I hope the beer is as good as the peripherals.

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Israeli Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest

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The beer worked. It is dee-laycious. I'm not going to write a book this year, though, because I just snagged a long-term sub job teaching high-school world history. This whole blog thing is getting kind of old, too.

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Strib:WACO, Texas -- A pastor performing a baptism was electrocuted inside his church Sunday morning after grabbing a microphone while partially submerged, a church employee said.On the Fox9 News this morning, they had an interview with somebody who was there, who said "it was shocking that this happened."

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My e-mail got on the new Channel 9 news this evening... The question was "who should be held accountable for the Vikings and their issues on and off the field? The coach? The owner? Who?"Unedited, my e-mail said "Here's a new idea: Hold the players accountable. They were the ones on the boat and on the field. Zygi needs to start throwing some suspensions around and let the backups play. Then

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...is "Into My Soul" by Gabin. Click on "Rarities" down by the turntable and you can listen to it.

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We got about 3-5" of rain over the past day or so, and Keith Marler on Channel 9 just said that would have translated to about four to five feet of snow!

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Pitch yeast. affix blowoff tube, and hope that everything goes well! 

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Add .25 tsp. Irish moss, boil for 15 more minutes. Add .25 oz. of aroma hops, let steep for 3-4 minutes. Chill wort and transfer to carboy. 

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Add .25 ounce of flavor hops and boil for another 15 minutes. 

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Add 2.5 ounces of boiling hops, and boil for 45 minutes. 

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Bring to boil. 

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Sparge with 4.5 gallons of 170 degree water. 

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Add grains, let set for one hour. 

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Heat 2.5 gallons of water to 168 degrees. 

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A version of "Barrel of Monkeys Oatmeal Wheat Stout:"Five pounds pale two-row maltTwo pounds wheat maltOne pound caramel malt (120 degrees)One-half pound roasted barleyOne-half pound roasted black maltTen ounces oatmealFour ounces Fuggles hopsWyeast 1084 Irish Ale Yeast

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From the Times of London:RELIGIOUS belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today. According to the study, belief in and worship of God are not only unnecessary for a healthy society but may actually contribute to social problems. The study counters the view of believers that religion

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From the New Yorker, by way of kottke.org:We have several. For an appetizer, the chef has prepared a slaughter of baby salmon on toast points of nine grains—blue corn, barley, rye, chaff, stover, found rice, horse-rolled oats, balsa, and fermented teff flown in daily from Ethiopia—and fancy assorted nuts, which may contain up to ten per cent peanuts. The salmon is very fresh; it was hatched just

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From Lost Remote:KPVI-TV (Pocatello, Idaho) meteorologist Scott Stevens believes Hurricane Katrina was being controlled by a machine built in Russia and used by the Japanese yakuza as revenge for Hiroshima. Check out his website, where he writes: "Our branch of humanity has in its future the possibility of regaining our sovereignty; that issue yet remains to be determined. If humanity only knew

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From news.com.au:WHEN Archie the black labrador lost his owner at a lonely Scottish railway station, he proved his well-trained pedigree and jumped aboard the first train home.Not only did the dog catch the right train, he got off at the right station, the Mail on Sunday newspaper said.Owner Mike Taitt lost sight of Archie at Inverurie station, near Aberdeen in eastern Scotland, and was hoping

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I spend about an hour and a half yesterday looking at stuff about diesel cars: A $120/year membership to the Twin Cities Biodiesel Co-op gets you 100% biodiesel for $2.90/gallon. That doesn't sound like too good of a deal off the bat, but you can also get Waste Vegetable Oil from them for 40 cents a gallon, and that burns just like diesel fuel. For Annie, you can get a 2006 New Beetle with a

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First Year Teacher:It is very disturbing to me to live in an apartment in the city and wake up with bug bites all over my foot. Where are these bugs? What are these bugs? When I saw my foot this morning I thought I was still at camp. Then I remembered I wasn't and that I have no reason to be bug-bitten. I am filled with wonder and rage.I am frequently simultaneously wondrous and enraged.

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From today's Star Tribune:WASHINGTON — The federal government plans to hand out debit cards worth $2,000 each to families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.Homeland Security Department Secretary Michael Chertoff, under fire for his agency's response to the disaster, held a conference call with governors of states with evacuees and described the plan. While many details remained to be worked out, the

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According to the State of Minnesota, all teachers who have teaching licenses are "highly qualified." That's probably one reason teachers in this state are treated as disposable as opposed to long-term investments as they are in the cases I mentioned yesterday. There's no hurry for administrators to fall all over themselves to woo teachers, because more keep getting churned out every year. The

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From USNews.com:After graduating from New Mexico State University in May, 23-year-old Ted Frigillana is teaching geography and world history this fall at Omaha North High School--his pick of five different job offers. Math teacher Michael Tewksbury was wooed by three school systems last summer just halfway through Virginia Commonwealth University's two-year education master's program; he jumped

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I just picked up my truck from the garage (90 minutes after I dropped it off, I got a call- "Your truck's ready!"). $42 for bending the "brake shield" back so it no longer scrapes against the wheel. I was concerned it would be like $400 for a full brake job. So far, so good.

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So the truck is in the garage right now, because Saturday night the right front wheel started making this horrible scraping/grinding/dragging sound. This would have put a crimp in getting to work for the first day of school, but today marks the fourth time in the past five years that I do not have a job on the first day of school. At what point do I give up education, or just pack up and move

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The new word is "fagnet," as in "fag magnet."This word is an adjective, used to describe a woman (such as Paige) who has a plethora of homosexual friends.This word should not have the negative connotations of "fag hag," which implies a woman who prefers the company of homosexuals over that of straight men.Thank you.

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Tuesday Morning Quarterback is back, and I'm a month behind!

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From Slate:Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who is commanding the military component of Washington's response, pleaded for patience from the people of New Orleans, promising that the U.S. Army was "building the capability" to help them. Building the capability? How is it possible that with the fourth anniversary of 9/11 almost upon us, the federal government doesn't have in hand the capability to prepare

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From the Freakonomics Blog:I'm undertaking a project on poker. I've set up a website, www.pokernomics.com, for people to download their hand histories. Using these hands, I hope to study what differentiates good and bad poker players. The response has been overwhelming. I think we've got over 7 million poker hands already. (For those of you who sent hands, but don't have your Freakonomics book

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From McSweeney's, a list of Klingon Fairy Tales:"Goldilocks Dies With Honor at the Hands of the Three Bears" "Snow White and the Six Dwarves She Killed With Her Bare Hands and the Seventh Dwarf She Let Get Away as a Warning to Others" "There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe With a Big Spike on It" "The Three Little Pigs Build an Improvised Explosive Device and Deal With That Damned Wolf

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This is a QuickTime video, so make sure your volume is turned up!

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You might remember that I posted something about the Thrifty Hipster last week. Update: On what I assume are their "sponsored" bars (ones in boldface type along the sidebar), negative reviews are buried. I made a negative comment about the Nomad, and it didn't show up until I "viewed all comments."Basically, the reviews for their sponsors are deceptive. Only the positive ones are shown at

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According to today's Star Tribune,During a speech in Grapevine, Bush used the phrase "war on terror" no fewer than five times. Not once did he refer to the "global struggle against violent extremism," the wording consciously adopted by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other officials in recent weeks after internal deliberations about how best to communicate how the United States views the

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From today's Star Tribune: I just like the positive spin on the headline... "everybody got out alive!"

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The new school year is just around the corner, and along with that comes workshop days. These are some of the biggest waste of times known to humanity. Just give us the time to get our classrooms set up and the first couple of weeks of planning taken care of. Of course, I'm speaking theoretically-- I still don't have a job for this fall.This guy speaks for all of us. From The T.F.A. Trenches:

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From the New York Times:WASHINGTON, July 25 - The Bush administration is retooling its slogan for the fight against Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, pushing the idea that the long-term struggle is as much an ideological battle as a military mission, senior administration and military officials said Monday. In recent speeches and news conferences, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the

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By Lawrence Britt: For the purpose of this perspective, (Britt considered) the following regimes: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Papadopoulos’s Greece, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia. To be sure, they constitute a mixed bag of national identities, cultures, developmental levels, and history. But they all followed the fascist or protofascist model in

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Language Is A Virus

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Thanks to Eduwonk.com, here is a drinking game a-la "Hi Bob":As promised, here is a list of 24 jargony words to drink by. Special thanks to all of those who played along, and to all those who will hoist a few henceforth. The rules are simple: Each time you hear one of these often-used words from the education world, take a swig of whatever makes you happy. If you have no beverage (as often

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Yesterday was the last day of summer school, and I had to combine my class with the lowest ESL kids because their teacher wasn't there. We watched two awful movies: Dudley Do-Right and A Cry in the Wild. That's not the point. Another teacher brought in pizza for a little party, and none of the kids would take any pizza! One kid said "Are you having any pizza, Teacher?" and nobody would get up

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I saw the link for the Thrifty Hipster in today's paper. It seems pretty cool, but awfully slick for what a true "hipster" would put together.(See "Hipster Bingo")

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From Evil Bible.com:Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours. 9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

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I like this editorial from today's Star Tribune.Living in Minnesota's Theater of Seasons is by turns enjoyable, exhilarating and character-building, like one of those 10-hour stage plays you read about occasionally. The intermissions, however, could use improvement. Take this little trough between heat waves, this relative respite amid visits to the blast furnace. It's as restorative as a

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It's nice to see that other people feel the same way I do about Rachael Ray. She is defended today in Slate, but my sentiments are echoed in Rachael Ray Sucks, a message board talking about her suckiness. An post:Names for future RR FoodTV shows:1) Hey! I'm Rachel Ray2) Rachael Ray's Boo-Hoo I Ate Boo3) IronSlut4) Rachael Ray's Garbage Bowl5) Rachael Ray's How To Cook An Entire Meal With One

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I never would have known about these Mexican stamps if my basic Spanish-language skills and a Spanish-language newspaper didn't converge. It's supposed to be an homage to the artist, Sixto Valencia Burgos, sort of along the same lines as "Peanuts" stamps honoring Charles Schulz.Remember, a few weeks ago President Vicente Fox said Mexican immigrants to the U.S. would do jobs that "even blacks

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It was bound to happen. Update: Apparently, Oscar Gamble is not as well known as previously thought. Here is an interview to help you understand, Here are his stats, and here are some other pictures.The whole posse thing (wikipedia).And yet they get the Sorrell Booke reference.

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1120310503030788562005-07-02T08:21:00.000-05:002005-07-03T16:35:51.676-05:00

Here's the second version of my first stencil, on a shirt I made for Paige. Update: Paige loved the shirt so much that she left it at the bar. This is why you can't have nice things!

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With the combination of a government shutdown and high gas prices, I hope you understand that I was a little nervous when I saw this outside my house this morning... 

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So I'm teaching summer school social studies at an alternative high school in Minneapolis (..."for immigrant, refugee, and at-risk students..."), and most of these kids are ESL/ELL students. Also, I have never been shown so much respect as a teacher in my life! One Somali kid always comes in with a big smile on his face and says, "Hello Teacher!" When I told him that he got an "A" on his

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1119552700450374172005-06-23T13:51:00.000-05:002005-06-23T13:51:40.490-05:00

Marlee mentioned something about the general climatic trends here in Minnesota a couple of days ago......I can't imagine anyplace having more interesting weather than Minnesota. The range between that state's record low (-60) and record high (114) is a mind-boggling 174 degrees. A foot or more of snow can fall on Halloween or Easter, and the most remarkable storms come rolling in on summer days.

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1119191271805428032005-06-19T09:27:00.000-05:002005-06-19T09:28:25.743-05:00

If somebody asks you why you live in Minnesota, direct them to this post (forecast from Weather Underground):TodaySunny. Highs 85 to 90. South winds 10 to 20 mph.TonightMostly clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. Lows 65 to 70. South winds 5 to 15 mph.MondayPartly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs 85 to 90. Southwest winds 5 to 15

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1119187465854776942005-06-19T08:24:00.000-05:002005-06-23T09:35:20.163-05:00

I think if you want to know what's going on in the mind of a middle-school-aged girl, Sammyantha's Page will give you a pretty good idea.If you scroll down really quick, I think it enhances the idea.

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1119127069615628252005-06-18T15:37:00.000-05:002005-06-18T15:39:09.750-05:00

I don't know if I was inspired by the "Back to the 50s" weekend, but yesterday I flushed the coolant in my truck, and today I changed the spark plugs and put in new plug wires. I have never changed my own oil, though.I don't know who decided to put spark plugs where they put them, but they obviously never planned to change them themselves.

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1118109786389084842005-06-06T21:03:00.000-05:002005-06-06T21:03:06.463-05:00

This article from Slate is just more of what we have been hearing for a long time, but this is what struck me:The time elapsed between Sept. 11, 2001, and today's writing (1,364 days) is only slightly less than the time between Pearl Harbor and the unconditional surrender of Japan (1,365 days). Whoa.

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Is this a conflict of interest within the First Amendment? From Insight News:(Dorwatha) Woods is the Principal Administrator of both the Acension School (K-8 Catholic school) and Acension Academy, a charter high school. Both schools are located in the Old Highland neighborhood in North Minneapolis.Asked to describe the two schools, Woods said, “There is not much difference except the religion

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This is what I found today in the high school band room where I was subbing. (Click on the image to make it readable!) 

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I was just listening to some of Richard Cheese 's new CD, and I am amazed! I especially like the "Mr. Sandman" backup singers in "Enter Sandman."

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I received an e-mail invitation about this Economics and the Environment Camp from the MCEE today, but I was a little concerned about the point-of-view that may be presented.......At our summer camp, you'll see these connections first hand, as you follow up classroom sessions with visits to sites that may include a hydroelectric facility, a taconite mine, a paper plant, a sanitation facility, and

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1117137527402233942005-05-26T14:58:00.000-05:002005-05-26T14:58:47.470-05:00

This morning, FOX9 news reported that "America's most-wanted terrorist" was wounded in a battle. I thought that was interesting, considering that Osama is hiding out with the Pashto on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. What I thought was even more interesting was that they continued in saying that al-Zarqawi was believed to be wounded in Iraq. So Osama's not even our number-one guy anymore?

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Ooh! Guns, Germs & Steel is coming out as a show this summer! Cool!

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So we've been watching Cooking Under Fire on Channel 2, and I don't know what I should think. It's a by-the-book "reality" show, where every week there's a new challenge, and one contestant gets eliminated. At the end of the series, somebody wins the big prize. The previous "reality" shows on PBS were more academic studies: Can I survive in 17th-century America? Can I get a date in Regency

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So a moving van just pulled up in front of the apartment building down the block... at 9 o'clock on a Thursday night! Plus, the city put up "No Parking 12-8 Friday" (or whatever) signs on the block for street sweeping. You got three hours to move out, dude!

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1116534861196764572005-05-19T15:34:00.000-05:002005-05-19T15:54:19.310-05:00

Marlee tagged me for this, so I suppose the pressure's on...The last CD I bought was: Rev105 Radio Archive Vol. 1 -- Looking at that "Vol. 1" on the label is kind of sad... The reminder of a job not done. This is actually the most recent one I remember buying, mostly because my first copy of this CD got left behind in Seattle, and I always had an eye open for a replacement copy. I found it at

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1116502233571997382005-05-19T06:30:00.000-05:002005-05-19T06:31:58.540-05:00

I just saw a Kool-Aid commercial on TV, and apparently Kool-Aid Man wears cargo shorts now.

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1116447579467658652005-05-18T15:19:00.000-05:002005-05-18T15:19:44.186-05:00

When I was trying to check out a book at the library this afternoon, the self-checkout contraption told me that one particular book was unable to be checked out. When the lady at the desk checked it out for me, she said, "you found a missing book!" I felt mildly proud of myself. The book was Snowball Earth by Gabrielle Walker, FYI.

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1116184841987960442005-05-15T14:20:00.000-05:002005-05-15T14:20:42.050-05:00

On Epitonic.com, there are audio "walk-throughs" of different musical genres. They kind of remind me of Radio K's "Fundamentals."

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From this Star Tribune article about the garbage burner...Remember that episode of "Futurama?" Where the Professor used his "smell-o-scope" to find the ball of garbage hurtling toward earth? 

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I have been subbing for the past couple of days as a fifth-grade teacher. This is at a middle school, where the different teachers are considered "specialists," so the kids switch every period (even though the fifth grade is in the middle school, it's still treated like elementary school). I am subbing for the science guy, but I have previously subbed for the math teacher. The math teacher

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From Star Tribune:NAIROBI, Kenya — A stray dog saved the life of a newborn baby after finding the abandoned infant in a forest and apparently carrying it across a busy road and through some barbed wire to her litter of puppies, witnesses said. The stray dog found the infant, clad in tattered clothing, in a poor neighborhood near the Ngong Forests in the capital of Nairobi, Stephen Thoya told the

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Click on this link to send e-mails to your senators to protect free weather from the National Weather Service.What's going on? Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) has introduced a bill (written by AccuWeather) that... would ban NWS from "competing" with private entities by making it unlawful for the agency to publish user-friendly weather data and barring NWS experts from speaking one-on-one to news

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1114635643971753042005-04-27T16:00:00.000-05:002005-04-27T18:06:58.356-05:00

I like dogs, and so does Dogblog. I don't like it when people just leave their dogs tied up outside, though.

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So I'm subbing as a sixth-grade social studies teacher for the whole week, mainly because the regular teacher is filling in for the assistant principal, who left a couple of weeks ago to have surgery before she retires at the end of the year. Why they didn't get a long-term sub for this guy, I don't know.On numerous occasions during the day, different teachers told me "it's not you, it's the

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1114259949963969752005-04-23T07:39:00.000-05:002005-04-23T07:39:09.963-05:00

Some thoughts on the "gay marriage" controversy, in Minnesota and other states: How will "Adam and Steve" getting married endanger my marriage? If the goal of a constitutional amendment is to protect marriage, the amendment should include "...and divorce or other termination of marriage shall not be allowed..." Any state constitutional amendment banning "gay marriage" is unconstitutional

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1114191773237500202005-04-22T12:42:00.000-05:002005-04-22T12:42:53.236-05:00

So I subbed as a freshman English teacher today, and the plan was to show the kids Romeo and Juliet. Not a big deal, but she left the 1968 version On her desk. I thought, "Aw, crap." When I got to her room, I saw the 1996 version on the VCR cart. Knowing ninth graders, I went with the newer version. If I would have shown the old version, there would have been a dunkin' riot. I stand by my

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A seventh-grader gave me a "You're the Cheesiest" award today, something usually given by the teacher to students. She wrote: "Thanks for being in our house and being the only teacher that has ever said wat up to everyone." I thought of sharing it with the other teachers, but then I thought that it might make them think that they're not connecting enough with their students. So I'll keep it to

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I got paid yesterday for subbing a few weeks ago, but I have come across a problem. I worked four (out of six) periods at a high school a month ago, and both the regular teacher and I were under the impression that I would get paid for a full day, because I worked for more than half a day. Unfortunately, the on-line substitute teachers' handbook (dated from the 2002-03 school year, no less)

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1113138074191373902005-04-10T08:01:00.000-05:002005-04-10T08:01:14.190-05:00

Welcome to the Stencil Revolution, which is a cool site if you don't mind expressing yourself...

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1113048006658233102005-04-09T07:00:00.000-05:002005-04-09T07:00:06.656-05:00

I just posted this as a comment on First Year Teacher's blog, so I hope I'm not violating any type of blog etiquette. This country is raising a generation of "exceptional individuals," in the sense that: Yes, rules are important for the group, but an exception should be made for me/my kid. Parents and administrators are the enablers. I long-term-subbed at a middle school a few years ago, and

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1112279773738231262005-03-31T08:36:00.000-06:002005-03-31T08:36:13.736-06:00

As you may recall, I have been having a hard time finding decent fiction to read. I must say, Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson was an awesome story. Especially if you're into cyberpunk.

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1112212845956222432005-03-30T14:00:00.000-06:002005-03-30T14:01:45.376-06:00

As you know, I am still looking for a teaching job. Since I didn't even get a call to sub today (it's getting to the end of the quarter), I figured I would finish up our taxes (we have to pay in big time) and look through all the school district job posting websites.The weird thing is, half of them aren't responding! Normally, one or two are down. But I'm talking about 10-15 different school

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1111755423599720272005-03-25T06:57:00.000-06:002005-03-25T07:02:27.066-06:00

This particular person has written a Firefox extension that will tell you if Terry Schiavo is still alive or not.I was wondering when something like this would come up. I expected some media outlet (Fox News, probably?) would have continuous updates on their ticker at the bottom of the screen (Terror Alert: Elevated. Terry Alert: Alive). It seems that the Religious Right are not the only ones

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1111675814519626052005-03-24T08:50:00.000-06:002005-03-24T08:55:20.223-06:00

This was blatantly lifted from U Caught Me Thinking: No Child Left Behind: The Football Version1. All teams must make the state playoffs, and all will win the championship. If a team does not win the championship, they will be on probation until they are the champions, and coaches will be held accountable.2. All kids will be expected to have the same football skills at the same time and in the

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From today's Star Tribune:IMAX movie about volcanoes banned in South because it mentions evolution CHARLESTON, S.C. -— IMAX theaters in several Southern cities have decided not to show a film on volcanoes out of concern that its references to evolution might offend those with fundamental religious beliefs."We've got to pick a film that's going to sell in our area. If it's not going to sell, we're

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As I was cleaning up in the yellow room for the impending visit from the sister-in-law, I came across some old teaching documents. I long-term subbed in the spring of 2001 for a teacher who taught eighth grade social studies and seventh- eighth-grade combined language arts. She was a bitter woman, which was sad, particularly because she was probably only in her mid-twenties. The main unit I

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1111114593145189782005-03-17T20:56:00.000-06:002005-03-17T20:58:30.206-06:00

There's a legend here in Minnesota about the Tournament Snowstorm, and it looks like this year, we'll actually get one!There's been a long-standing myth of the "Tournament Snowstorm." The myth goes that the Twin Cities will get a big snowstorm during tournament time. In particular, during the State High School Boys Basketball Tournament. This myth has been around for many years. In 1975, Bruce

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1110832610358563222005-03-14T14:36:00.000-06:002005-03-14T14:42:06.050-06:00

I subbed as a high school math teacher today, and I learned a few things:Kids were bringing in pies, and they said that it was for "Pie Day." It wasn't until 6th hour that I realized that it was "Pi Day." Get it? 3/14? Yeah, that was my reaction, too.I also found out about the conchoid of Nicomedes, the kampyle of Eudoxus, and the Tschirnhausen cubic. Don't ask me about any theoretical or

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I used to drink Hale's Ales when I was in Seattle... The stout used to be called "Moss Bay Stout," but it was still frackin' awesome! On a completely different note, I just had to turn down a sub jobthat would have been good (social studies, and last hour prep)... His message said to call him in the morning because he didn't have lesson plans ready. I'm sorry, but even though I would be

Ricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02885800577611808200noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5548235.post-1110329156102620162005-03-08T18:45:00.000-06:002005-03-08T18:45:56.103-06:00

I just listened to this, and is it cool! The SciFi Channel has a commentary podcast by the producer of Battlestar Galactica. I'm guessing that it's like the commentary feature on some DVDs, but I've never listened to those. The problem for me, though, is paying attention to the commentary coming from my computer speakers while I'm also trying to watch the show on TV. This is where TiVo comes

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.: Corvallis Gazette-Times :. Archives

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Notes on today's subbing (high school social studies): Good thing: seventh-hour (or last-hour, whatever) prep-- I got to leave at 1:30 Bad thing: Two kids (freshmen) were one more shove away from fighting at the beginning of third hour. This, I don't need. Hubris: I subbed for the basketball coach, whose team was blown out in the first room of the section playoffs. On his desk was a copy of

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So I subbed as a high school math teacher today, and I was a little concerned when I couldn't find lesson plans on the teacher's desk. This guy teaches Algebra and Pre-Calc, and I stopped at Algebra II back in high school. A short while later, the teacher and his student teacher came through the door. That's right, I got paid to sit around all day while this kid taught the classes. I felt a

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