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- And my central point is that I think this same theory, of self-sacrificial display, applies also to education, which is a similarly weird and arbitrary process, and which constantly enrages us all by being so very different from what would seem sensible and economical. What I'm saying is, to repeat the title I've chosen for this posting: education as peacock feathers. I think this explains a hell of a lot. It explains, for instance, why education goes on for so insanely long, and for longer and longer as more and more people can afford to do it for longer and longer. |
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- It's too nice a day to remain indoors so I'm enjoying the mid-70s cloudless day sitting out in the courtyard dispite it being a complete disaster area (thanks Kids!). |
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- Huge drop in TV viewers in the age group 18 to 34 years old. They say they can't explain it, but no one involved has suggested an obvious conclusion: lots of people are now using the Internet instead of watching TV. |
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- Powerful new film from Clint Eastwood. |
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I, Caesar (Oct 22 2003 22:59 GMT) - French comedy can't decide if it is for kids, grown-ups, or both. |
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- My daughter's 5th grade class is reading the best book -- Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse. She brings it home and reads to me the parts they've read in class so I can keep up with the story. :) She is totally enthralled with it, and I have to say that I can see why. In my opinion, excellent reading for children her age! |
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- My daughter's 5th grade class is reading the best book -- Out of the Dust, by Karen Hesse. She brings it home and reads to me the parts they've read... |
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- The public radio program To the Best of our Knowlege this weekend was devoted to the power of the written word. One segment that caught my imagination was about the SIBL (Songs Inspired by Literature) project. Deborah Pardes uses music to connect low-level readers with works of literature. Some of the songs are written expressly for SIBL (there's an annual songwriting contest), but there are hundreds of well-known songs by successful artists that have the same kind of connection. I always knew that Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" was as much about Alice in Wonderland as it was about drugs, and it's pretty obvious that the singer of Sting's "Moon over Bourbon Street" is either Lestat or Louis from Interview with the Vampire, but I didn't realize until today that one of my all-time favorite heavy metal tunes, "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" by Blue Oyster Cult, was inspired by Michael Moorcock's Elric books. |
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- Citizen Smash has today's edition of the Sandbox Roundup. Link via Dean Esmay.... |
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- lnixon asks: "As a recent Slashdot article mentioned, the latest trend in spamming is to use cracked Windows machines for sending spam and hosting spamvertised ... |
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- Read Donald Rumsfeld's memo on whether the US is winning or losing the war on terror. It's a great scoop for the often-derided USA Today. |
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- Never-reads-newspapers Achilles |
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- Nicholas Kristof hits many of my hot buttons today. A wonderful column. |
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- http://www. veen. com/jeff/archives/000355. html... |
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- This and other headline anagrams from Davezilla. Don't forget that the comments on that site are always funny, too. |
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- School-sopnsored trip. Won't include quite so many of my lovable foibles, but still pretty cool. |
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- Erland Sommarskog has an interestng collection of articles on SQL. Worth a look ! This is a small collection of texts about some features in SQL Server that people frequently ask about in the newsgroups about MS SQL Server. Rather than being a FAQ with many questions with short answers, these are in-depth articles on some of my favourite topics The curse and blessings of dynamic SQL. |
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- Oct. 22 - Police think a serial bank robber has struck again, this time in Somers. Jason Palomba is wanted in connection with several other robberies. |
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- Oct. 22 - Women are not the only victims of breast cancer. Men are also susceptible to the disease, and the consequences can be just as deadly. |
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- Oct. 22 - School bus drivers in Shelton ratified a three-year contract Tuesday night, ending a weeklong strike. |
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- Oct. 22 - The fight over the life of a brain-damaged woman took a dramatic twist when a hospital began rehydrating her on orders from Gov. Jeb Bush. |
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- Oct. 22 - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport has settled another lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by a priest, the Connecticut Post reported in Wednesday's editions. |
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- Poor financials as company awaits launch of Napster 2.0 |
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- "Some athletes were humiliated, he said. Others were smeared with feces and jailed. Some were placed in a sarcophagus with... |
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- Beware football fans, the NFL Network is coming to a cable/satellite provider near you on Election Day, November 4, at 8pm ET. DirecTV subscribers will get NFL Network free as part of the basic packages. What is the NFL Network?... |
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- Oct. 22 - Police are investigating the murders of a couple found shot to death in their Reynoldsburg home. They are trying to determine what led up to the murder. |
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