For those of you who wish to be entertained, here’s a delightfully bizarre story about chihuahuas, the police, and internet porn.
Archive for December, 2005
Delightfully Bizarre
Friday, December 30th, 2005Using Christmas Gifts
Friday, December 23rd, 2005Now I know what not to do with the little Leatherman knife I got for Christmas.
Oddly enough, the little insert with the warnings printed on it just mentioned not “suing” the knife to cut live electrical wires. To avoid the risk of “eloctrocution.” Nothing at all about raking and where to lodge one in your head.
Osama’s Niece
Friday, December 23rd, 2005Poor Osama. How can you be expected to show your face outside of your comfy cave when your niece is out dressing in a scandalous manner?
The poor man. I bet behind that beard his cheeks are bright red every time he meets with his lieutenants (who probably all have posters of her stuck to the wall in the bathrooms of their caves).
Osama’s Niece
Friday, December 23rd, 2005Poor Osama. How can you be expected to show your face outside of your comfy cave when your niece is out dressing in a scandalous manner?
The poor man. I bet behind that beard his cheeks are bright red every time he meets with his lieutenants (who probably all have posters of her stuck to the wall in the bathrooms of their caves).
December 25
Thursday, December 22nd, 2005There’s an interesting article here about the reason that December 25th is celebrated as Christmas.
Via my Dad.
Stalin, The Monkey Master
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005Truly weird stories seem to come out of totalitarian regimes. Stalin’s is no exception. Sounds like the premise for some kind of video game — you wonder where the makers of games like Wolfenstein came up with their ideas.
Two Problems Become One
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005Now it seems that the international community’s problems with Syria and Iran have combined. What do you think the chances are of the UN actually doing something about this? I wouldn’t say they’re very good.
Media Bias Quantified
Sunday, December 18th, 2005This study sounds awfully similar to a study I read a while back about the same topic, and came up with virtually the same results. I’m not sure if this is the same one or not, but it’s definitely worth reading. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to include a link to the results from the study (just a digested version thereof) and so it provides somewhat less ammunition in debates on media bias than I’d like.
Graduation
Saturday, December 17th, 2005Well, I’m finally done with my degree, and I now have a Bachelor’s of Science in Education of Political Science. AKA, a Political Science BSEd. I’d like to change the information in my ‘about’ link, but there’s a link or something broken on the server and I can’t log into the right thing with FTP to update the text file. Oh well, I’ll get around to it when I can.
I’m giving myself the rest of the month off and not trying in earnest to get a job until January, because I’m lazy.
They Like Me
Tuesday, December 13th, 2005Tomorrow is my last day of student teaching. I’m thoroughly ready to be done with college and graduate, and hopefully get my own classroom, but I will definitely miss my students. I handed out an evaluation today of how they thought that I had done with teaching them over the past 16 weeks, and got some pretty amusing responses. I’m not going to share them with you (much as I would like to) because I told the students that I would be the only one to see them.
Anyway, one of the questions asked them to give me a letter grade for how well they thought I had done with the class. I averaged the answers together, and on the 4.0 grading system they gave me a 3.588, which is pretty good (probably a high B+). GAHS uses a grading scale that 92% or so is the cutoff between an A and a B, so that’s probably the equivalent of about a 90%. As far as I’m concerned, that’s quite good.