Whatever random crap I feel like posting. Typically left-leaning. Occasionally vulgar. Not always serious. Sometimes annoying.

Archive for March, 2005

PowerPoint advice

Monday, March 28th, 2005

If anybody cares, I put up a little page of Tips on Using PowerPoint in College Classrooms over at Ron's Tech Stuff.

The family business

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

My wife picked up the Great Philosophers Finger Puppets for Ozzy and me this week (from the excellent Unemployed Philosophers Guild), and we've been playing with them. The set has puppets for Plato, Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche (no Descartes? What were they thinking!), and he's learned to speak ...

Terry Schiavo is already dead, you fucking morons

Monday, March 21st, 2005

These right-wing theocratic ass-wipes, from Bush on down, should be fucking ashamed of themselves; but instead, they think they are righteously supporting a "culture of life" (which I hear they're trying out as a new 'Publican slogan). Once again, they intervene in the attempt to allow her body to ...

Oz’s theories and the people of Earth

Saturday, March 19th, 2005

Oz likes to have universally generalized theories of pretty much everything. For example: We go to the local supermarket (the "Hannaford") for groceries, so Oz puts forth the generalized theory: "Everybody gets their groceries at the Hannaford." But when we say no, that not everybody ...

The broken spring

Friday, March 18th, 2005

I can't remember the last time I was looking forward to Spring Break so much, even though I'm mostly just going to try to work, and hang a little more with the pollywog. And now, it's here. I bow to the power of the equinox to create this ...

Wheel-spinning and gear-grinding

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

It's been a hellish week of trying to get out from under the backlog of stuff that piled up while I was sick. I live for the knowledge that Spring Break is only a week away.

Dramatic tragedy in Ozworld

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

Oz likes to cut things out with scissors, and is getting pretty good at it. (He's not the most coordinated kid around, but some of his fine-motor stuff is decent -- scissor and mouse control, for example.) As he gets better, he gets more ambitious, and cuts more ...

This week’s score: Sickness 1, Me 0

Saturday, March 5th, 2005

Been a sick pile of shit all week. Turns out my cold morphed into a big ugly sinus infection, which was sapping my strength and my will to live. Scored some antibiotics, and am on the mend. Well worth a small increase in the bacterial mutation rates. ...