Blah blah, blah-blah blah blah blah– blah (blah)– blah, blah blah. Blah blah blah, blah blah, blah-blah blah. Chicken chicken chicken, chicken-chicken . Chicken, chicken chicken chicken. Chicken, chicken-chicken, chicken. Badger badger badger, badger badger badger. Badger, badger badger. Snake!!!
Non-Dorky Poll: Rooting for the Enemy
This was a topic yesterday on Mike & Mike, but I already had a full slate of blog posts. I like the question, though, so I thought I’d put it up here: If you’re a fan of a team in a sport with a championship playoff, who do you root for when your team is… Continue reading Non-Dorky Poll: Rooting for the Enemy
Dorky Poll: Numerical Trivia
I was most of the way through a long post in response to a donor request, when the power went out. It is, in fact, still out at home, and the power company’s web site lists an estimated restoration time of 1pm. As you might imagine, this puts something of a kink in my morning.… Continue reading Dorky Poll: Numerical Trivia
links for 2007-10-25
Welcome to Syracuse University News. “Andrea Farina, a senior communications design major in the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Art and Design, won the World Rock Paper Scissors (RPS) Championship” (tags: silly sports) Cocktail Party Physics: just an ordinary man Celebrating 50 years of the Bardenn-Cooper-Schrieffer theory of superconductivity. (tags: physics quantum… Continue reading links for 2007-10-25
We’re #1!
Dave at the World’s Fair has an idea for a “meme”: [Y]ou will attempt to find 5 statements, which if you were to type into google (preferably google.com, but we’ll take the other country specific ones if need be), you’ll find that you are returned with your blog as the number one hit. This was,… Continue reading We’re #1!
“Gifted” is not a “Special Need”
Mark Kleiman has rediscovered a semi-clever approach to the problems of smart kids: So here’s the puzzle: is there any justification for not treating high-IQ kids as having “special needs” and therefore entitled to individualized instruction? Yes, yes, I know that in the South “gifted” programs have been used as a technique of within-school resegregation.… Continue reading “Gifted” is not a “Special Need”
Fraternity Weekend
Here’s the crew I spent this past Saturday morning with: The guys who are younger than I am are a bunch of students from the local chapter of Sigma Phi. The one guy older than I am is from a volunteer group who help maintain the local bike path. The stone wall behind us is… Continue reading Fraternity Weekend
Kids Those Days
One of the odd things about blogdom, and the commentariat in general, is the way that people will all seem to latch on to some particular idea at about the same time, despite the lack of any obvious connection between them. I keep having days when I scan through my RSS feeds, and find the… Continue reading Kids Those Days
links for 2007-10-24
slacktivist: Gay-Hatin’ Gospel (pt. 3) Part three of Fred Clark’s look at why evangelicals are so anti-gay. (tags: religion politics blogs US gender) The Big Three How important are the major SF magazines, anyway? (tags: SF books literature) Evolving Thoughts A taxonomy, of sorts. (tags: religion science) james_nicoll: How to save the SF magazines A… Continue reading links for 2007-10-24
Overheard on Campus
I was standing in the back of the Taiko Ensemble concert tonight, when two students I didn’t know came in, carrying large, elaborate Nerf guns. They had a certain… hunted look about them. “Hey,” I said, “Who’s winning?” “Oh, man,” said one, “The zombies are kicking our asses. They’re multiplying really fast.” Yes, it’s Humans… Continue reading Overheard on Campus