I suppose I could be planning for the rest of the school year but instead I'm reading aldaily.com and lazily working on my historiography paper. Is this blogworthy?
Who cares anymore. What brought me to this site was the fact that the custodians used a beautiful "Pascal" programming book as a doorstop while clearing out my room. It has some significance, although I'm not exactly sure what.
My room has a corner with four outdated machines two of my students are "working on". It's such a delightful feeling to turn junk into treasures. I'm inspired when old computers are utilized for parallel computing tasks. Linux seems to be able to use resources more efficiently. It's very ideologically satisfying.
I hate blogging from the school. I feel like I'm exposing some school secrets indecently.
Maybe the Pascal book and the computer graveyard are appropriate for a public school. Aren't we behind the times? I am writing this on a wireless network. Although it is unsecured and open to hackers. We are working on it...consider most teachers don't know a CPU from HTML.
But we made a Fedora server from discarded parts. The little server that could. She had 30 students on at once but couldn't handle it. She seized up and I decided to buy a new 3 GHz Dell. I know. I can use the old Fedora server to post my blog and resume and random stuff like that. Lol. I'll never get enough activity to shut that down.
So now all the desks are out of the room. It's really large when empty. I imagined just letting the students come in and fight for an hour with nowhere to sit down. I kid, I kid.
Ah I will go grade some notebooks. Just not now.
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