Movie review: Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen

Now, I’m not a movie critic.  I don’t like movies where it’s just two people in a room talking for one and a half hours about their feelings and/or relationships.  I’m not into period dramas or classic literature.  You won’t find me at classic movie revival festivals.
Those kinds of people who do enjoy the aforementioned [...]

Crazy Collaborative CPT

So I had this idea, and I’m not sure if it’s crazy, or “so crazy it just might  work”.  Anyways.  I know a couple other teachers who will have sections of CPT (Communications Production Technology) in the fall, and we’d briefly mentioned trying to pull together some kind of collaborative project that all our students [...]

Hobbies, and why mine’s the best…

Mandi and I had a good laugh recently on the subject of hobbies – she’s recently taken up running, and not in an “I occasionally break into a jog while I walk the dog” running, but in an “I’ve spent over $350 on running clothes and shoes, and I just bought a bike for when [...]

Post #2000

Thought you ought to know… the blog’s anniversary is coming up mid-June, but we pass another landmark today – 2,000 posts!  Yay us!  Also, we have passed the 2,000 comment mark (we actually would have crossed a long while back if I had been able to import the comments from the 1st incarnation of the [...]

The strange language of warning labels

I took a closer look than usual at my weed whacker today as I completed some yard work, and noticed the following labels on it:

They’re a fairly wierd collection of ideographs.  Some of them are evident, and others need a little interpretation.  With that in mind, I set out to uncover what it was that [...]

Texan ID proponents back in the news

In a story that we’ve been talking about on and off since August of 2003, Texas is once again at the forefront of the evolution/creation debate for schools.  Once again, textbooks are at issue.  After having defeated the Intelligent Design proponents in ‘03, science teachers are back in the hot spot as a renewed attack [...]

Eight point nine inches

No, that’s not a come-on for a new “enhancement product,” it’s the biggest difference between my new netbook and my previous one.  The screen on my new Asus EeePC 900HA is 8.9″ corner to corner vs. my old 701’s seven diagonal inches.  You wouldn’t think that 2 extra inches would make that much difference, but [...]

California Supreme Court rules in favour of Prop 8

It’s not like they had a choice – their ruling was limited to whether Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage, constituted an amendment or a revision to the state’s constitution.  If it was a revision, it would require more legislative steps before being enshrined in the constitution.  The court ruled that it was an amendment, [...]