Archive for May, 2008
Future-me called, expressing his appreciation of my solid money management and lack of credit card debt. In reward, he let slip that Obama won the presidential election with John Edwards as his running mate, netting 56% of the popular vote. Surprisingly, Obama didn’t swear in using the Koran and his secret terrorist buddies […]
I had a few quirky things happen when I upgraded from Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) to 8.04 (Hardy Heron). One was sudo not working. It complained about my hosts file, which was weird but I fixed it by used “gksudo gedit,” since I couldn’t use “regular” sudo to get to it. The […]
In creating a 90-day unit plan, I wanted to focus a few lessons on teaching students how to discern opinion, fact, and bias in news stories. I thought it would be a good idea to show two articles covering the same topic, so that the students could analyze how the wording changed the tone […]
Surely we should be able to tag music as “Christmas” and have our music players only play it for one hour on December 25th each year. Rudolph, I can’t even pretend to care about you. It’s May. Quit picking your nose and it will not be so red, sheesh.
