Saturday, April 30, 2005
selling video of the pope's tour
Followed by a commercial for "Girls Gone Wild Spring Break 2005".
What a country.
I just watched a documentary about San Quinton.
Finished my historiography paper about "The Inquisition".
Lynndie England will face up to 11 years in England.
How can I make this any more depressing?
There's a beautiful, innocent girl who gives me great kisses...that makes me happy. :)
What a country.
I just watched a documentary about San Quinton.
Finished my historiography paper about "The Inquisition".
Lynndie England will face up to 11 years in England.
How can I make this any more depressing?
There's a beautiful, innocent girl who gives me great kisses...that makes me happy. :)
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Amazon.com: Books: Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Amazon.com: Books: Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Regression analysis finds that Roe vs. Wade has contributed greatly to the downward spiral in crime.
Will all Jews and Christians go to hell?
Will all Jews and Christians go to hell? Take your chances infidels!
fleeting moments
I don't covet the transient. Every thought we have doesn't need to be recorded online...yet I'm strangely drawn to blogging.
Emails more damaging than cannabis - vnunet.com
Emails more damaging than cannabis - vnunet.com Distracting emails lowering our IQs by 10 points! Who would've guessed?
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
labs.google.com - Why Work at Google?
labs.google.com - Why Work at Google? What an awesome company...
What the Bleep Do We Know!?™ - The Movie
What the Bleep Do We Know!?™ - The Movie This is the movie I fell asleep watching tonight. It's a great idea and I think about stuff like that constatly. I loved the intelligent ideas but it was still a little slow.
Speaking of slow, I'm watching King of the Hill. I knew Bobby wasn't going to kill the deer. "Hold on to your boyhood Bobby. Well, you know what I mean."
Speaking of slow, I'm watching King of the Hill. I knew Bobby wasn't going to kill the deer. "Hold on to your boyhood Bobby. Well, you know what I mean."
Monday, April 25, 2005
Agree or disagree?
"Sermons were to the public of those days [16th century Spain] what television is to the 20th, the most direct control over opinion."
---Henry Kamen "Inquisition and Society in Spain"
page 205
What will be the answer to the 21st century?
---Henry Kamen "Inquisition and Society in Spain"
page 205
What will be the answer to the 21st century?
Why Google bought Blogger....
The second link for "Blogger Google Acquisition" in Google took me here:
Though weblogs are often compared to the frequently introspective and self-focused personal web pages hosted by Geocities or Angelfire, most weblogs are far more interactive, actively commenting on and linking to other web content. This commentary and linking behavior offers several potential benefits to a search engine like Google.
Weblog entries are often concise, pithy abstracts of other web content. In that sense, they function as an enhanced directory listing, of sorts.
Currently, Google and all other search engines look at the text surrounding a link to infer content of the page the link points to. With weblogs this text is often much more "focused" and can offer much more context about a page that's pointed to.
Though weblogs are often compared to the frequently introspective and self-focused personal web pages hosted by Geocities or Angelfire, most weblogs are far more interactive, actively commenting on and linking to other web content. This commentary and linking behavior offers several potential benefits to a search engine like Google.
Weblog entries are often concise, pithy abstracts of other web content. In that sense, they function as an enhanced directory listing, of sorts.
Currently, Google and all other search engines look at the text surrounding a link to infer content of the page the link points to. With weblogs this text is often much more "focused" and can offer much more context about a page that's pointed to.
watching explosions
The kids in my worst class are showing a little initiative. An extra credit project about "Weapons of World War One" wihch consisted of a little internet research and an oral presentation.
We got into a discussion about whether a 10 pound shell can destroy a tank. Instantly the focus turned to the web.
"Oh there's video of that online."
Without skipping a beat they showed me video of tanks firing, cars crashing, people dying and all out chaos. Silly me. While I was reading WHY those things were happening, they were watching them in all their glory.
The web is whatever you make it. If you want real-life footage from the A-Team, you got it.
We got into a discussion about whether a 10 pound shell can destroy a tank. Instantly the focus turned to the web.
"Oh there's video of that online."
Without skipping a beat they showed me video of tanks firing, cars crashing, people dying and all out chaos. Silly me. While I was reading WHY those things were happening, they were watching them in all their glory.
The web is whatever you make it. If you want real-life footage from the A-Team, you got it.
Sunday, April 24, 2005
Google Knows What You've Been Searching For
Google Knows What You've Been Searching For: "at http://labs.google.com, requires users to create a personal login with a"
Makes you think twice before you search...Not me though. Whew, at least I wasn't born paranoid.
Besides, governments have never hurt their own citizens, have they?
Makes you think twice before you search...Not me though. Whew, at least I wasn't born paranoid.
Besides, governments have never hurt their own citizens, have they?
God Hates America -- A Warning to the USA!!!
God Hates America -- A Warning to the USA!!!: "Americans will eat their BABIES!!!"
I don't know if this is a joke or serious...but it's one of the creepiest websites I've ever seen.
I don't know if this is a joke or serious...but it's one of the creepiest websites I've ever seen.
A Few Lucky Students Who Don't Need AP (washingtonpost.com)
A Few Lucky Students Who Don't Need AP (washingtonpost.com)
AP courses can save students a lot of money and I'd love to teach the highly motivated students. On the other hand, making your lesson plans reading the Times is fun also. I could teach a pretty interesting course with ALDAILY.com.
AP courses can save students a lot of money and I'd love to teach the highly motivated students. On the other hand, making your lesson plans reading the Times is fun also. I could teach a pretty interesting course with ALDAILY.com.
thetruereligion.org - News
thetruereligion.org - News: "They assign no value to time as it slips by unnoticed
"
I was wondering what the one true religion was this beautiful morning. I typed "true religion" into google and found out it was Islam. Google doesn't lie...and the stock has been doing great :)
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I was wondering what the one true religion was this beautiful morning. I typed "true religion" into google and found out it was Islam. Google doesn't lie...and the stock has been doing great :)
Saturday, April 23, 2005
a view of progress
Harry Elmer Barnes in 1934 wrote a review of The Inquisition. by A. Hyatt Verrill in the The American Journal of Sociology that compared the negative view of Hitler’s Germany with the barbarity of the Inquisition.
“If, however, one turns for a moment to the Inquisition of the Middle Ages and early modern times, he discovers such a staggering record of savagery and blood lust as to give a decided impression that we have made headway toward tolerance and decency even in present-day Germany.”
Ah the idea of progress. Of course it was in a journal of sociology. I wonder how Harry Barnes felt when the images from the concentration camps reached America?
“If, however, one turns for a moment to the Inquisition of the Middle Ages and early modern times, he discovers such a staggering record of savagery and blood lust as to give a decided impression that we have made headway toward tolerance and decency even in present-day Germany.”
Ah the idea of progress. Of course it was in a journal of sociology. I wonder how Harry Barnes felt when the images from the concentration camps reached America?
Friday, April 22, 2005
Shlock Jocks
One of my acquaintances from school is now a radio DJ for this Clear Channel radio station that sounds like any other Clear Channel rock station. When I was in elementary school he'd pester me with his big mouth and he once pushed me in high school because I made fun of his stupid laugh. So now I'm talking about the French Revolution and he's making fart jokes on the air. He's like Nelson and I'm like an underachieving Martin. His platform is so much bigger than mine and I think I'm angry about that.
I try to discuss genocide, religion, and culture. I'm holding up a mirror of our past to fifteen year old children literally dying to get away from thought. But my students really, really, really can be funnier than any Clear Channel DJ I've ever heard. Especially the guy I'm talking about...I wouldn't dare put the link up to "Listen Live"- you have better things to do than that.
I'll tell you one story from my students though :) Last year I had a period with only one "White" student. We'll call him Gonzalez and he looked nothing like me but the students one day were laughing hysterically because they had decided he was my unacknowledged son. I had to laugh a little because he really didn't look anything like me.
Anyways, later in the week there was more laughter surrounding Gonzalez and his broken arm. His arm in a cast, the first thing he announced to the class was that he broke it falling off his bike. Later on in the "lecture" (words just aren't always that precise- I need to invent a word for a lecture interspersed with 50% interruptions) a girl, we'll call her Lashunda, politely raised her hand and said that he wasn't being truthful about how he hurt his arm.
Why I inquired further is beyond me, but I asked, "How did he hurt his arm?"
Looking very dignified, she sat up in her chair and said, "He didn't fall off his bike. He was masturbating the whole night."
I couldn't hold back my laughter. Lol, when I started laughing the whole class went crazy laughing. Everyone except one teenager in a sling who sat there red-faced.
At the end of the day he came to my desk and said he really did fall of his bike and he could bring in friends to back up his story. LOL, like I wanted to call witnesses.
Still, I shouldn't have laughed. And I shouldn't be jealous of a Clear Channel radio station DJ reaching more people than I do at school. But I'll work on that :) Besides at the end of the year, Gonzalez came up to my desk without a sling and told me I was a great teacher. How often do you tell that to Clear Channel DJs?
I try to discuss genocide, religion, and culture. I'm holding up a mirror of our past to fifteen year old children literally dying to get away from thought. But my students really, really, really can be funnier than any Clear Channel DJ I've ever heard. Especially the guy I'm talking about...I wouldn't dare put the link up to "Listen Live"- you have better things to do than that.
I'll tell you one story from my students though :) Last year I had a period with only one "White" student. We'll call him Gonzalez and he looked nothing like me but the students one day were laughing hysterically because they had decided he was my unacknowledged son. I had to laugh a little because he really didn't look anything like me.
Anyways, later in the week there was more laughter surrounding Gonzalez and his broken arm. His arm in a cast, the first thing he announced to the class was that he broke it falling off his bike. Later on in the "lecture" (words just aren't always that precise- I need to invent a word for a lecture interspersed with 50% interruptions) a girl, we'll call her Lashunda, politely raised her hand and said that he wasn't being truthful about how he hurt his arm.
Why I inquired further is beyond me, but I asked, "How did he hurt his arm?"
Looking very dignified, she sat up in her chair and said, "He didn't fall off his bike. He was masturbating the whole night."
I couldn't hold back my laughter. Lol, when I started laughing the whole class went crazy laughing. Everyone except one teenager in a sling who sat there red-faced.
At the end of the day he came to my desk and said he really did fall of his bike and he could bring in friends to back up his story. LOL, like I wanted to call witnesses.
Still, I shouldn't have laughed. And I shouldn't be jealous of a Clear Channel radio station DJ reaching more people than I do at school. But I'll work on that :) Besides at the end of the year, Gonzalez came up to my desk without a sling and told me I was a great teacher. How often do you tell that to Clear Channel DJs?
smiling newscasters
This post falls under the "Society and technology" headings because it sure as hell isn't about teaching.
Why were the local newscasters smiling while they were showing us heliocopter footage of Faye Dunaway (who the fuck is that?) from Los Angeles? I am thousands of miles from there! IT DOESN'T CHANGE MY LIFE!
Who decides what's relevant and news-worthy? Will it be a better world when we only hear what we are interested in? Can I happily exist with a channel devoted exclusively to Crank Yankers and no idiotic local news "personalities"?
Why were the local newscasters smiling while they were showing us heliocopter footage of Faye Dunaway (who the fuck is that?) from Los Angeles? I am thousands of miles from there! IT DOESN'T CHANGE MY LIFE!
Who decides what's relevant and news-worthy? Will it be a better world when we only hear what we are interested in? Can I happily exist with a channel devoted exclusively to Crank Yankers and no idiotic local news "personalities"?
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