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Especially the ones about categories of movies. Being a film buff for several genres I have so far been edifiied when no matter what obscure category of list they pull out I have always seen at least one or two of the movies on the list.
For their recent list 24 great movies too painful […]

From the new Daily Show archives, some old school humor. I mean, it’s not that old, but can you believe this was 7 years ago?

Well San Diego is on fire again. Maybe you heard, or maybe no one cares because Malibu is on fire and LA is everything. The fire is almost exactly like the last time. Ramona on fire, Southeast San Diego on fire, plus some other fires show up in the middle of the […]

A “Friday Five” on a Friday, how rare is this?

The bane of being an engineer in law school: fixing your friends computers when they get ravaged by the Internet. (If anyone has non-reformat advice for how to get rid of a Trojan that neither Adaware or Spybot can seem to extract, I’d love to […]

In our fun but absolutely freezing cold camping trip over the weekend Bfarn asked me a few insider teaching questions he hoped I knew the answer to, so I share them with you plus some other observations about the nitty-gritty you may or may not have wondered about before.
1. Yes, teachers do get tired […]

Well, first of all I’m reading about China where:

an environmentalist who was correct and praised nationally is jailed by local officials
children are being abused in unlicensed boot camps
human rights is secondary to political brinkmanship when Tibet is involved
lawyers who are active in civil rights get beaten up despite State “protection” &
local officials control the courts […]

Well it was my high school reunion this last weekend and I of course blew it off. Even if it was the kind of thing I would have enjoyed going to I am really busy, poor, and 500 miles away. Chances of going, 1/10000. But I was there in conversation due to […]