Unspectacular Meme

Sherry Chandler challenged me to provide 6 unspectacular things about myself. Seeing as how I’m basically quite boring, this shouldn’t be too hard.

I have 2 birthdays. I was born on April 10, 1960, which was Palm Sunday. When I was younger I celebrated both.
In my 20s I was a Dungeons and Dragons addict. [...]

If not on top of the world, at least on the upward slope

I got a comment the other day that really made me think. From the very perceptive CG Hill: By now you should be doing well enough to put a serious dent in the “What am I doing?” fearfulness that seemed to be hovering over your shoulder when you got back into the swing [...]

Physical Geography, Week 4

Homework: 2 @ 100%
Group participation: 2 @100%
Test: 96% (Would have been 100% if I hadn’t gone back and changed 1 answer)
There are still a couple of really big assignments that haven’t been graded yet, but my cumulative grade is north of 96%.

The Hadron Collider Rap

For Mere, who was much relieved that the universe didn’t end.

Well, DUH

Media Advisory:
Monday, September 15, 2008
For Information Contact;
Randy Alexander (901) 359-4982
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www.adapt.org
ADAPT Fights Back re: Nation’s Low Income People with Disabilities Left Behind in Election Year Agendas
Who: ADAPT Community (500 disability rights activists from all over the country.) ADAPT is the nation’s largest cross-disability grassroots disability rights organization.
What: News conference to announce opening [...]

Oops! My bad.

Violate a protection order and strangle a woman?
Claim it was an accident and that the goal was to knock her unconscious with a “sleeper hold.”
Sentence: 5 years.
Selling an ounce of marijuana will get you more time than that.
Ergo, it’s worse to get someone high than to kill a woman.
Times like this I’m ashamed to live [...]

The right to privacy while raping your property

This story just makes me sick. The District 4 Court of Appeals in Wisconsin has ruled unanimously that the police violated a man’s right to privacy when they installed hidden cameras in his wife’s nursing home room to prove that he raped her at least 3 times since she fell into a coma following [...]

Physical Geography, week 2

Homework: 7 @ 100%
Participation: 100%
Test: 84%
Weekly grade: 94.72%
Cumulative: 97.05%
When I was a kid, after my grandmother died I didn’t have anyone to get excited over my grades, or hang my gold star papers on the refrigerator. So I decided to reward myself for my hard work, and give myself gold stars here. [...]

This could happen in my office

When trolls attack ….