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This topic has been sort of simmering in my mind for a while, and it’s really more of a further development of my position on professional athletes generally. I don’t expect professional athletes to be role models, I consider them modern-day gladiators who aspire to be champions.  Any additional good-human-being characteristics is frosting on top […]

Of course today, when it surpasses 100°F, is the day Orangejello decided to have a roof-deck party. Thankfully, it’s in the evening so we won’t get completely scorched. But we’ve been hiding inside away from the heat until then, save for a run to the grocery store. As such, I’m watching My Boys with Kattekilling […]

Orangejello and I have a friend out here in DC who is consistently hilarious; we’ll call him JK.  I thought I’d share two recent examples of the man’s inspired wit.  First, his Facebook status from a couple of days ago, regarding The Decision debalce on ESPN by LeBron James (Orangejello has called his status updates […]

Posting only monthly is unacceptable.  At the very least, I want to put down thoughts of the moment, just to get back in the habit of writing here.
Kattekilling is in Hong Kong for two weeks with her mother.  She is visiting her grandmother and other family, and eating some incredible food.  She is also going […]

It has been a fairly hectic past couple of weeks.  A busy last month or two really.  This has severely cut down on the number of posts for me. But now that I’m getting a little closer to a routine again, I will be getting back to blathering for no good reason. I’m going […]

have a pretty incredible backlog of reading and writing to do, and it will only get smaller if I actually do something about it.  Of course, this is being done as procrastination from packing for my move, so maybe it’s just making sure that I ignore other priorities that I will get any blogging done.
Cannon […]

Cab Calloway - Strictly Cullid Affair
Red Norvo - Stop Beatin’ ‘Round the Mulberry Bush
Count Bassie - I’m Beginning To See The Light

Found out today I won’t be back to my school next year.  This is not a budget cut thing, so my chances are slim to none.  There is nothing in particular as to the reason, but this principal has sacked half the new teachers to the school in the last 2 years, so I’m not […]

Since the incident with Google being the target of a hacking attack from China, many of the news outlets that I keep track of have had a consistent background discussion about just how organized and authorized the attack was.  We assume that Beijing was behind the attack, at least indirectly, but there are opinions that […]

It must be a chemistry thing, as most of the chemistry teachers I’ve known are weird dudes(usually guys, but not always).  My own stupid jokes have been well documented(recent example:  Shut off lights for a spectroscopy lab and gave direction to class “Okay, no one molest anyone else.”), but what about the bad jokes of […]