What a day I’ve had.  It all started well enough, with me happily tooling around the intertubes at 8:30 am.  First I went to the Ustream (I’m not linking to the stream, as it is broken) of the Laptop Institute’s Keynote address for today, and it broke.  Then I went to the Ustream of the edubloggers un-conference, and it wasn’t very fun.  (I’m sure it was for the participants, but there wasn’t much to do from the outside other than listen to people talk about technology in education.)

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Happy Birthday to me! And for my 3?? birthday we opened a bottle of Geyser Peak’s 1999 Meritage and got down to a little “Harold and Kumar go to White Castle.”

“Did Doogie Howser just steal my f$#%ing car?”

This may be the stupidest movie ever. And I’m loving it! The Kumar/Weed montage is hysterical. But not as good as the “Break Free” singing performance.

There is nothing about this movie that isn’t just incredibly stupid. And yet, it works.

So now the Sun Times is ready to hire me to be the next Roger Ebert, right?

A disjointed ramble about the most disturbing movie I’ve seen in years

This is a frightening moment. I am sitting in front of a large hi-def screen currently showing “Jesus Camp.” I’m watching this because some of us think this may be funny. I’m thinking it’s more likely going to give me an aneurysm.

Oh Jeebus. A bunch of 10 year olds in a church performance dressed in fatigues and face paint. The indoctrination of children isn’t really all that funny. This is going to be a long night. “There’s a manual in the back that teaches children how to preach to kids, and how to win the lost.” And it’s sale will make me buckets of money. Sorry. Was that cynical?
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I told myself that when I could find time to blog, that I would try something that wasn’t cynical, or arrogant, or all ranty. Yeah. That didn’t last.

When looking over my notes of current topics to discuss, I created the following list:

• Television executives and the special hell to which I as master of the universe would condemn them. Stop teasing us by providing us with good television, and then canceling it 2 weeks in!
• The Copyright Royalty Board and the lunacy of discriminating against the current technology that could save the music industry. Aired music is promotional, but digital music isn’t?
• The members of the veteran’s committee for Baseball’s Hall of Fame and the insanity of leaving the 5th best (statistically) 3rd baseman ever to play out of the hall. (Yes, I’ve been watching This Old Cub again.)
• Here’s a shock. The Spy Court that lets our government watch/listen/record everything we do denied . . .zero requests in 2006.

and finally . . .

• In Utah, one of the county leaders of the Republican Party, Don Larsen by name, wants us to know that Satan is sending us illegal aliens because destroying our sovereignty and our borders is part of his plan to destroy this Christian nation. (Actually, I’m still laughing too hard at this one for it to qualify as a rant.)

As you can see, my list runs the gamut – personal tastes, political views, wackos in Utah, and sports. All completely rantable. Good thing I vowed to never bring my work to this blog, or it’d get ugly.

So sometime in the near future, I’ll pick something worth going into detail on. In the meantime, won’t someone give me a topic that won’t raise my blood pressure? (And don’t say puppies!)

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Recently reported in an article in the Independent Online Edition:

Two divided by three makes 0.666 recurring (allegedly – actually it makes 0.6666666667).

Uh. . . . bwah? Is this some journalist’s attempt to “fact check” using his handy-dandy pocket calculator? Because, while it’s true that your TI will say that two divided by three is “.6666666667,” this is only because the calculator lacks the basic capacity to deal with infinite numbers! It’s called estimation.

The original (and mostly banal) article is here – 23 fascinating facts about the number twenty-three.

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