I knew CNN reporters were dumb…

… but seriously… Accord­ing to ravrhi in metaquotes: From a report on the French riots: “It’s been 11 days since two African-Amer­ican teen­agers were killed, elec­tro­cuted during a police chase, which promp­ted all of this.”–CNN anchor Carol Lin,...

Hmm

E‑mailing stu­dents their marked ver­sions may be delayed, as one of you nice folks has appar­ently infec­ted me with a Macro virus (yeah, yeah, I should­n’t have enabled Macros on any incom­ing files, but I did because often edit­ing stu­dents use...

Marathon

I’m done mark­ing my stu­dents’ Assign­ment 2. I don’t remem­ber it being this much of an effort last year. Then again a) I didn’t have 50 of them last year and b) I wasn’t trying to race against time because of having had a motor­bike acci­dent...

I always said it would lead to no good

See, hawk_eye? Paint­ball is bad, m’kay? From The Age: It is alleged all nine were involved in “mil­it­ary type” train­ing at Kinglake, east of Mel­bourne, a claim dis­puted by the defence law­yers as a “paint­balling”...

Heroes

How very odd. I always kind of forget that vari­ous fig­ures of his­tory that I admire are very likely still wan­der­ing around, very much alive, and still doing inter­est­ing things with their lives. For some reason, because so many of the 50s and 60s...