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 of things. [...]

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 Marsha Katz (406) 544-9504 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 a [...]

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 [...]

This could happen in my office

When trolls attack ….