March 19th, 2005
It'll Do
No buzzer beaters, but an upset double overtime? That includes a block of a sure-thing shot at the buzzer? I will definitely take that.So since Wake and its ACCphiles have been whining that it was robbed of a 1, does this mean this counts as a 1 falling? Nah.
Posted by fad at 10:21pm
More Coach Carping
I'm no Kentucky fan, but at least Bob Huggins will be sitting at home early again. I'll take that.
Posted by fad at 10:03pm
Insight (Ok Complaints) You Will Not Get Elsewhere
They still haven't fixed that annoying rattle on the right-side rim in Indianapolis. I hereby declare only swishes and airballs are allowed there the rest of the night.While we're at it, a tidbit about the airball chant. That's the best reference to it I could find with as much effort as I was willing to spend.
Posted by fad at 8:53pm
More Worthless Tourney Crap
Cool. A 12 into the Sweet 16. Now if we can just get rid of one of these 1s...Oh yeah, and have a really exciting game again. Is it too much to ask for just one true buzzer beater?
Posted by fad at 6:52pm
More Casual Tourney Talk
Hopefully the guards from Illinois have long, wealthy NBA careers so that they can pay for James Augustine's hip replacement due to him always have to awkwardly throw it out there because they always go wide of his screens.
Posted by fad at 5:19pm
Tournament
Bob Knight has made it to the Sweet 16. I find this...disappointing.
Posted by fad at 2:13pm
Announcer Observation
Kevin Harlan broke out his "loving adoration" face instead of his "listening with interest" face when his colorman was discussing what was to come in the second half. Someone should tell him that. Unless, of course, he isn't acting.
Posted by fad at 1:15pm
Much Better
I admit, in some small way I hoped putting up a post bitching about the tournament to this point would reverse jinx it into some excitement. To add even more mojo, I went out with non-basketball caring friends all while a) recording the whole thing, and b) knowing the place we were hanging out would be showing games anyway. A 14 and a 13 winning is awesome. That they took out Kansas and Syracuse? Even better. Too bad Duke had to win.
Posted by fad at 1:06am
March 18th, 2005
Off
Ok, I think I'm done for the day. Enjoy the weekend. Hopefully the rest of the games this weekend pick it up a bit.
Posted by fad at 5:06pm
Round 2 Better Pick Up The Slack
Based on this first round of the tournament, the temporary post-NFL season suicide watch reprieve is still in effect, but only because I'm more likely to fall asleep than work on a solution. At this point I'm almost praying a Chesterfield will mysteriously appear in the middle of the court just so I can be entertained enough to say, "Wrong sport, chaps, but brilliant attempt at promotion."
Posted by fad at 3:31pm
Observation
After watching, again, parts of the History Channel's special about moonshiners and bootlegging, I have determined that "revenuers" is a word that does not get used enough. We must bring it back.
Posted by fad at 11:33am
Forced Boners
Ah, the juvenile evolution of English.
Posted by fad at 10:13am
What Women Do To Men
When I was a friendless young loser, I used to enjoy climbing onto the roof for a little peace, so I can understand this.Police officers arrested a man who said he climbed atop the town's water tower in search of "tranquility.''However, something seems to be missing in this variant. Some detail...
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he climbed the tower "to get away from everyday life and people. It was my tranquility place.''
[He] climbed down about 20 minutes after police officers arrived and was arrested on charges of criminal trespass and public intoxication.Ah, there we go. But something else is flitting the edges of this. I think there must be one more detail.
He also did it "for the woman I love.''Must have a great view to her window from there.
Posted by fad at 7:00am
Don't Worry. The Sock, She Is Clean
And here's today winner of today's Most Obvious 'Lookit Me Go!' Use Of Alliteration Award.Expressing such non-tactile concepts requires skilled subtlety and chance. Pouring and painting black and brown inks on frosted, non-porous mylar, Huston accedes to instinct, trusting her artistic past. Shape-shifting with amoebic autonomy, the inks pool and seep between delicate calligraphic lines. Drying into patterns, they reiterate geologic tributaries and parched earth.Using "pouring and painting" just before "brown and black" was fine, but it was "amoebic autonomy" even more than the "skilled subtlety" that pushed this entry to the top. The winner will be presented with her prize, a bronzed balled-up sock, at the Farm Accident Digest Awards Banquet And Drum Circle next month.
Posted by fad at 6:47am
Schvetty
Despite being a person who has always oversweated just from things like changing the channel, I've never had a sweaty foot problem. Even if I did, I don't think I'd like these.Marketed as the "new running sock with built-in moisturizer," Ireland’s smart socks are the first to contain scented aloe vera micro-encapsulated within the fibers. The socks release the moisturizer throughout the day and promise that the aloe is good for at least 35 washings.35 washings? That's like more than 8 years.
One complained that the aloe created extra friction that overheated her feet at the gym. The other said his feet felt slimy by the end of the day.No matter the source, a goo soaked sock is just not something I'm interested in.
Posted by fad at 6:25am
Like A Blogger Who Wants To Be Delinked
I like waking up to news that Castro is pissy about the petty obvious.Cuban President Fidel Castro has criticized Forbes magazine for the "infamy" of listing him among the world's richest people, with a net worth of $550 million."[T]he equal sharing of its miseries."
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"The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong," the statement said.
The statement went on to say that Cuba is the only Latin American country that fights inequality and has the fairest income distribution in the world.
Posted by fad at 6:17am
March 17th, 2005
Day Ender
Ok, so day one was somewhat dull. Well, not really dull, but nothing in any of the games (until the very end) really grabbed me. However, that block then lightning quick fastbreak to win the game for West Virginia over Creighton was something to see.And to just make this a day sum-up post, the local Simpsons repeat station, which routinely butchers (including adding really bad wipe effects to their editing) the episodes, fucked up and didn't show the prohibition episode today. Really, there is no justice left in the world.
Posted by fad at 11:37pm
All The Best Sheep Are Gay
Yesterday it was seized goats, today stolen sheep.An Oregon State football had a stolen sheep in the bed of his pickup when he was pulled over for speeding last week, Benton County authorities said.I wonder how many drinks it takes for a 280lb man to get to .14. It's like the mystery of the tootsie pop.
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Ninety minutes after being pulled over, the 280-pound Siegert registered a .14 percent blood-alcohol content on a breath analyzer at the Benton County Jail, according to the sheriff's office. Oregon considers drivers with a .08 percent blood alcohol content to be drunk.
"I don't know anything about that," he said. "I'm from a city. I don't know anything about sheep."Yeah, I'm sure his friends will let him forget about that real soon.
The 200-pound ram lives at the university's Sheep Center, and is part of a study on homosexuality in sheep
Posted by fad at 5:19pm
Yeah, Out Watching Games All Afternoon
Well, some fun little games this afternoon, if a bit boring and anti-climatic. The second set looked really bad for a bit, but UTEP and Utah stepped it up. Washington managed not to be the first 1 to lose to a 16, but looked pretty rough.Oh, and the fact that UW-Milwaukee was made a 12 against an Alabama 5 makes me suspect even more that the committee purposely tries to create a 12-5 upset by under seeding a team. Still nice to see, though.
Hopefully tonight sees more fun and at least one good buzzer beater. And tomorrow, may Duke be the first 1 to lose to a 16. Hey, I can dream.
Posted by fad at 5:00pm
Millions Of Cartmans
One of the oddest aspects of search hits is the fact that tons of people do a search on someone or something then add "jew" or "jewish" to the end of the search. This one that just came in (from someone at the Philadelpha Zoo) is one of the strangest examples of this."the killers" "mr brightside" jewish
Ok.....well, good thing America's zoos are onto all that Jew influence in popular music.
Posted by fad at 12:48pm
With An Ambient Beat
I'd heard somewhere that Elijah Wood was playing a soccer hooligan in some small, indie-shit movie and had the exact same fear I'm sure just seized all of you as well: oh no....he's going to break out the Frodo accent again.Wood stars as Matt Buckman, an aspiring journalist who moves to London after being kicked out of Harvard. While staying with his sister (Claire Forlani) he falls in with a wild crowd of fervent football fans led by Pete Dunham (Charlie Hunnam) and transforms from mild-mannered student to butt-kicking thug.Phew. He's playing an American.
But first, he'd planned to stay in Austin for the South by Southwest music festival, which started Wednesday and runs through Sunday, in part because he's starting his own record label.The first release will be a double disc set of fangirl screeching set to banjos.
Posted by fad at 10:42am
Naughty Cher
There are some human rights that should never be violated.Erie County has had to slash 2,000 jobs and cut back on services in order to close a more than $100 million budget shortfall.Or as Moe the Bartender referred to them, "One of them loser countries." Decent toilet paper is fundamental to liberty.
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It's so bad, some county employees are bringing in their own toilet paper and other supplies. The worker told WGRZ that's "like working in another country a bad country."
Posted by fad at 10:31am
Should Be Before 9:30am Or It's Crap
Even though I've spent many years stuck in the Central Timezone, I still can never get used to the fact that the Tournament games start so damn late here.
Posted by fad at 10:24am
Knifey
Kangaroos on the loose is becoming a strange news theme the last couple months.Members of the Poole Homemakers Club were downtown Tuesday when they saw a kangaroo.They call him Cap'n Stereotype. Always has shrimp on the barbie when you come over and picks up his mail with a boomerang.
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The animal was likely a small kangaroo that escaped from [...] an Australian who moved to Poole.
Posted by fad at 9:24am
Hogging
Your words of wisdom for today."Domestication probably isn't just one guy having an ingenious idea and looking at a wild boar and saying, 'I can get a domestic pig out of that',"Which means that if humanity were in an anarchistic state, we'd have no bacon. So fuck you, anarchists.
Posted by fad at 6:30am
Bad 70s Disney Sci-Fi
Scientists' drive to destroy the universe continues.A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the characteristics of a black hole, a physicist has said.This universal destruction is largely government funded. Just another one of the neocon, scary, creepy religious right's attempts to destroy the world and bring on an early return of Jesus. At that time He will turn all the homos, PETA supporters and women with opinions into wine.
It was generated at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York, US, which smashes beams of gold nuclei together at near light speeds.
Posted by fad at 6:26am
Madness Unleashed
Actually, I'm going to spend most of the day not giving a damn that it's St. Patrick's Day and instead trying to gorge on as much basketball as possible. Sadly, the days have long passed when CBS, before they realized the demand and cost, put up a free live audio stream for every game. Nowadays it's all about trying to find the best live updating scoreboard around. Every year it changes, and every year the best one will mysteriously konk out for a while. But it's all part of the adventure. Reminds me of a few years ago during baseball playoffs when I was trying to find a reliable stream but was outdone by another guy in the office who was using this amazing new portable wireless media device he called a "radio".UPDATE: Sunnuva....looks like even all the scoreboards have gone pay now.
Posted by fad at 6:07am
Shalalee
Ah, St. Patrick's Day. The day when everyone is Irish. And the day when at least one 3rd or 4th generation American suddenly decides that since his last name is O'Shitfaced he's oppressed over something that happened 400 years ago so demands that he's Padraig, not Patrick.As for me, I'll be enjoying Bushmills and a brat because I find it funny, then random. Though maybe not together. Hopefully the local station, though it may butcher the hell out of the episodes, shows the Simpsons prohibition episode today. That's become a tradition as well.
Posted by fad at 6:02am
March 16th, 2005
Science!
Value of an atmosphere continues to depreciate as supply increases.The space probe Cassini discovered a significant atmosphere around Saturn's moon Enceladus during two recent passes close by, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Wednesday.Continuous source, eh? Well, we know what that means.
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Because gravity is weak on Enceladus, a continuous source is needed to maintain the atmosphere,
Posted by fad at 3:58pm
Peeping Pope
"Pope makes surprise appearance at window"Unfortunately it was not his window but that of Mr. Gene Patterson, 1244 Woodcrest. He was atop a group of Cardinals stacked like the Brementown musicians. He just wanted to say, "Hi."
Posted by fad at 1:12pm
Phew
This MSM Watch stuff is hard! Good thing we bloggers are a special breed. You won't defeat us, MSM!
Posted by fad at 12:12pm
MSM Bias Of Story Choice
The MSM never passes up an opportunity to mock the religious.A man who allegedly left a trail of dead goats through several states has lost custody of his 200-plus remaining animals pending the outcome of animal cruelty cases in Ohio and West Virginia.Sure, when the religious are batshit, the MSM is right there to report. But what about the religious people who take care of 200 goats in their house just fine? Where's that story?
[The man], 64, fled to West Virginia with 16 of his goats, including a dead one he'd been storing in a freezer, in late February amid an impoundment and seizure by agents in Scioto County, Ohio.
Ohio agents found an estimated 80 goat carcasses on his rented property - including one in the house and another nine in a freezer,
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He has previously acknowledged that he could not afford to give the herd sufficient care, but he refused to get rid of the animals because he said his religious views prohibited him from slaughtering any of the goats.
Posted by fad at 11:43am
Still Watching
It's being reported in the MSM, so be careful about believing it until you see it on World Net Daily or Newsmax. Twinkies, the MSM would have us believe, are the subject of a photoshow.A child plucks a Twinkie from a tree.Oh yeah, that's definitely going to make Newsmax. Those intrepid snoofers will probably find the homo agenda the MSM won't mention. They know there's one behind all these anti-Christian actions perpetrated on society always aided by the MSM.
Another Twinkie stands in for Jesus in an interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper."
Turns out, the Twinkie turns 75 this May and the company was happy to oblige, supplying nearly 1,000 Twinkies for the artists and as freebies at the show,Cue joke about the second one made still for sale next to the register at the Circle K in Blyth.
Posted by fad at 11:21am
The Secret Is To Use MSM As Much As Possible
I have decided I cannot fight it off anymore. It is time for me to accept the Bloggers' Burden and join in the war against the Mainstream Media, the MSM*. For my first report, all last week the weather listings promised rain in the afternoon or the next night. Was the MSM right? Of course not! No rain. None! Did the MSM learn its lesson after I called them out for this? Again, of course not. This is the MSM afterall, and the MSM continues to arrogantly ignore correcting bloggers such as myself. But the MSM can't ignore me forever.So beware, MSM. Yet another blogger is on the MSM Watch. Change your ways, or the MSM will go the way of the dinosaur. Hung up and displayed from ceilings.
You couldn't see it, but a real squinty scowl crossed my face just now typing the bastards' initials.
Posted by fad at 10:24am
Hopefully It Can Be Controlled
I warned you. I tried and tried to warn you, but, no, you had to laugh at me and spit in my lemonade. And now it's too late. The voracious alien snail creatures are already here.A voracious, fast-breeding South American snail that is a problem in four states and Indonesia has been discovered for the first time in Georgia, officials say.Bullshit. The enemy of Nature is Man. You looking for a natural enemy? Look in the mirror, bub.
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With yellow-to-brown shells that can grow to the size of a baseball, the large snails ravage many types of aquatic plants that provide food and shelter for native species. They can multiply quickly because they lay thousands of eggs and have no natural enemies.
Posted by fad at 9:46am
Con Carne
And here the day after Eat An Animal For PETA day, not even the animals are allowed to eat animals anymore.Safari parks in China have agreed to stop feeding their lions and tigers large live animals such as horses -- at least in public.I know I turned feral for a few years back in the 80s after a particularly shocking visit to the San Diego Wild Animal Park when a buffalo and a tiger were dressed in little gladiator outfits (the 2pm show had them in armor as knights) and set upon each other in the Bloodring. The leftovers were served to us in chili.
The gory eating habits could lead visitors to believe that animals, both hunter and prey, were only human playthings, Xinhua news agency on Wednesday quoted Xie Youxin, the deputy general manager of the Wild Animal World in Chengdu, as saying.
"The bloody scene could also have implanted violent tendencies in youngsters," he said.
Posted by fad at 9:27am
A Coda
One year ago tonight was one of the best nights of my entire life. It was, after years of thinking they were too poor and broken up to make another record or tour the US again, the night I got to see the Trashcan Sinatras play live for the first time. It didn't hurt that they were really freakin' good, too, with a setlist pulled from every album (at least 4 from each). Plus it was the first time I got to hear most of the new album which wasn't released until late August. I was flying the whole night with an insane permagrin. Well, once the insanely long rush hour cab ride was over.Yeah, I'm often ridiculed for making such a big deal about seeing one lousy concert especially with this band, but the fact is that I am a pathetic little man with absolutely nothing going for him. I have to take what I can.
Posted by fad at 7:22am
His Name Can't Really Be 'Batty'
I have decided to end all conversations with this quotation."In effect, the herring are using their swim bladders as whoopee cushions."I may even begin a few that way.
Posted by fad at 6:29am
March 15th, 2005
Idiot Explained
Well no wonder I'm so stupid.First born children in Norway get better education and as adults are more successful in the job market than younger siblings, a Norwegian-U.S. study showed.It's not my fault I'm an idiot; it's just the fact that I have an older brother. I knew everything was his fault. Always was.
"It is the birth order and not necessarily the size of the family that is important," said economics professor Kjell Salvanes of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. "It is better if you are the first born."
Posted by fad at 4:14pm
Goddamn Sissy Jupe
I hope whoever bought it intends to burn it and scatter the ashes over someone's French toast.A lock of author Charles Dickens' hair has been sold for £3,120 - more than five times its estimated price tag.At least that's what I'd do.
Posted by fad at 12:07pm
A Strange Confession
Even though I have read nothing by either one, I always get V.C. Andrews and H.P. Lovecraft mixed up.
Posted by fad at 10:14am
Futbol Americano
The NFL is going to have a regular season game played in Mexico City.The Arizona Cardinals reportedly will play the San Francisco 49ers on Oct. 2 in Mexico CityNice of the NFL to send the very best.
Posted by fad at 10:09am
Fake Holidays
So it's Eat An Animal For PETA day, is it? Fine, then! Be that way! My idiot contrarian nature does make me want to just eat a small salad and choke down a tub of tofu, but I think I'll play along anyway because, remember, you can't spell PETA backwards without "ATE". Or something.I hope you found this message inspiring. If you would like to receive more messages of inspiration, send a self-addressed stamped envelope to:
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Posted by fad at 7:43am
Tiny Bubbles
Time for a mild science catfight over hot bubbles.When the force of sound waves implode tiny bubbles within a liquid at room temperature, the surface of the bubble can reach temperatures at least 25,000 degrees Fahrenheit, more than twice as hot as the surface of the sun, scientists reported this month.I can feel the sizzle from here. It feels....sassy.
The center of such a bubble may be even more astonishingly hot.
The only known attempt to reproduce the Oak Ridge experiment was by Dr. Seth Putterman of the University of California, Los Angeles, whose the work was financed by an unusual source, the BBC. For an episode of its "Horizon" science series that focused on the Oak Ridge experiment, the BBC gave Dr. Putterman $70,000 to try to replicate it.Rowr!
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But his experiment saw no sign of the fusion-generated neutrons that had been reported.
Dr. Rusi P. Taleyarkhan, the head of the Oak Ridge experiment, said there were notable differences between his set-up, which cost close to $1 million, and the one put together by Dr. Putterman. "Sometimes you get what you pay for," said Dr. Taleyarkhan, now a professor of nuclear engineering at Purdue.
Posted by fad at 7:35am
In Which I Try To Emulate Most Fark Personals Blurbs
What's on your bookshelf?: "Some Kerouac, a little Chomsky and Beckett, a jar with Che's dick in it and a bunch of fuzzy, indie shit-music that I have to pretend to like so the free-minded hipsters won't kick me out of the club. Oh yeah, and a stack of Archie comics for the kitschy irony."
Posted by fad at 7:17am
Hard To Fear A Font
Finally an opera for the masses.Norwegians have fused classical opera with heavy metal to tell the tragic tale of Faust, in what musical purists might call a new pact with the devil.Dudes, your band name sounds like a font.
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Faust - Metal Opera unites 15 musicians from the town's opera with a local heavy metal band called Pica Fierce.
Posted by fad at 6:44am
If I Don't Read Any Of Them, Do The Awards Exist?
It's time for another set of blog awards.Heather Armstrong, a web designer, gained notoriety when she was fired from her job for what she had written on her blog about her workplace and colleagues.Best taglined? That's an award?
She helped coin the phrase "dooced", which means to be sacked because of a weblog's content.
Her site ended the night as the best US, most humorous, best taglined, and best-written blog.
Gawker Media, which runs several high-profile blog sites, won best entertainment blog for Defamer, a gossip site.So the secret to a great blog is to already be in media and marketing. That'll show the dinosaur media what's what and who's who and where's where and woozle wuzzle! Bring 'em down from the inside. Soon blogs will be victorious and will feast on the flabby flesh of the MSM and drink their MSM blood like the MSM wine it is. MSM.
It also picked up the award for best technology blog, which was handed to Gizmodo. Gawker's Wonkette blog was also named best political blog.
The site rewarded for its "community" efforts was technology blog Slashdot.It also won for Best Pseudo Science And Strange Techno Lefty Agenda Site for its stunning ability to pimp for the Kyoto protocol, link to stories which had nothing to do with technology or geekery that claimed all things leading to the Iraq war were lies then not posting a single thing about the elections and not posting a single thing about the Rather memo stuff until long after despite heavy technological interest in the pursuit of them.
Posted by fad at 6:39am
March 14th, 2005
The Most Wonderous Of Bages
Behold the power of cabbage!South Korea's spicy fermented cabbage dish, kimchi, could help to cure bird flu, according to researchers.I said Behold!
Scientists at Seoul National University say they fed an extract of kimchi to 13 infected chickens - and a week later 11 of them had started recovering.
Posted by fad at 6:02pm
Admittedly, A Weak Field Was Presented
The greatest quotation ever has been determined.Travellers arriving at Luton Airport are to be greeted with the lyrics of John Lennon's "All You Need Is Love".*Hork*
The words of the Beatles' hit are to be written on the walls of the arrivals walkway after being voted the greatest words of all time in an internet poll.
Posted by fad at 5:36pm
Another Thought That Should Have Been Left Unexpressed
Sometimes I wish my name was Sutton Hoo
Posted by fad at 4:57pm
Ahx Beats Sah-Woard
Letting all sword attackers know they are just rancid pussies, a man in London broke out the ax murder.An attacker used an ax to kill a man in a busy street in an affluent part of London on Monday morning, as horrified onlookers screamed at the suspected assailant to put the long-handled weapon down.While I have never confronted an ax murderer myself, my great uncle once had to (luckily he had a shotgun on his side). Turns out they generally aren't open to discussion at the moment. They've pretty much got their minds made up. I know that might come as a surprise to many, but it seems to be true.
"A man who lives in my building was telling him to put the ax down, then two men grabbed scaffolding poles to try to stop him hurting anyone else," said [a witness]. "But he didn't respond to all the people shouting at him."
Posted by fad at 4:46pm
And Strangely Most Hot Theories Came Out Of Australia
My dad was a principal and taught junior high age kids for over 30 years. One thing that always annoyed him was to have some degree waving know-it-all who hadn't done any real teaching to speak of try to instruct him on how, despite my dad's decades of experience and demonstrable results (kids who actually knew shit), he was doing it all wrong. He probably is somewhat vindicated to read this.The principals and superintendents who run the nation's schools are unprepared for their jobs by education colleges, where training ranges from inadequate to appalling, according to research by a leader in higher education.That last part is the most important. Teaching is an abstraction to them, not a profession they really understand. My dad never quit trying to learn new things to help in his teaching, but he also found that 90% of the hot new theories in education were just the same thing renamed every few years. But teaching instructors who didn't teach would always get creamy for them every time.
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Yet most graduate education programs that train these school administrators are deeply flawed, suffering from irrelevant curriculum, low standards, weak faculty and little clinical instruction, he said. Many programs are doing little more than dishing out higher degrees to teachers who are trying to qualify for salary increases
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"Many classes are taught by scholars who have never - or have not recently - been in a classroom or a superintendent's office,"
Of course this is just another lazy Press Release As Wire Report, so there's nothing to really say how accurate or fair the report actually is. The only reason I'm mentioning it at all is because it jibes with personal experience, so take anything typed as you will.
Posted by fad at 4:17pm
LOL?!?1?/
ROFL!
Posted by fad at 9:04am
March 13th, 2005
He'p
(Moved to top of page for the rest of at least today.)I'm slowly re-writing the system I use for this site so that it's...um..useful. And also so it can handle multiple sites at once. But until I finally unlazy enough to finish it (could be done in a couple weekends at most, but that would require more effort and motivation than I'm capable of), I'm looking into some of the other freely available ones for a possible other site.
Taking the long wind out of this, any suggestions or experiences with other systems? MT is out of the question.
Now I'll hang up and listen for my answer.
Posted by fad at 11:59pm
Stupid Broken Printer Preventing Bracket Printouts
Just as Easter always seems to fall on Easter Sunday, the NCAA tournament selections have just been announced on this Selection Sunday. This means Thursday begins the 3 week reprieve on the post-NFL season suicide watch around here. Hopefully the gameplay in the championship game won't be as pathetic as the last couple years.Oh yeah, and calling the sponsors "corporate champions"? Sweet touch.
Posted by fad at 5:34pm
One Of The Things I Hate About Sports Casting
The "Storyline". Every game or match is required to have one now, and announcers will stick with it at the expense of commenting on the actual action. I suppose the same is very true with political commentary as well, but it's made more annoying in sports by being condensed into a play-by-play pacing.Now normally they get away with it pretty easy because the Storyline is the screamingly obvious. However, I'm not all that interested in hearing the obvious parroted because, well, even a fucking idiot like me can usually spot the obvious. I'd prefer insight to what's happening than a recitation of the obvious in spite of the actual action.
A great example of the storyline being more important than the action was last night's Washington/Arizona Pac-10 tourney championship game. Dick Enberg -- who has his own special wing in Sportscasting Experience Hell -- and his colorman had the storyline about how fantastic Salim Stoudamire is. And it is true that he is far above everyone on the floor (and seems to know it too well as he kept expecting the star treatment from the refs). However, the storyline took precedence over the actual action on the floor. A guy he was guarding made what should have been a great pass, but the back-cutter for whatever stupid reason stopped short so the pass ended up out of bounds. For the announcers this bad cut by the other guy was a sign of Stoudamire's great defence. While they were busy going on about how great his D is, he dribbled down to the other end and made a really, really bad turnover. But, while that might have been the actual game events, it wasn't part of the story line so wasn't worth mentioning. And I'll admit right here, this same thing happens with announcers and Brett Favre all the time.
Tied to the Storyline is usually the player or coach who must be superlatized as much as possible. The king of superlatization is Brent Musburger who famously said during Rick Mirer's second or third game in college, "How many Heismans will he win?!?" Well, none, of course. You see it a lot in football. Some guy makes one or two plays and suddenly he's the greatest thing since Jesus served sushi.
Yes, I know I could just turn the sound off, but then I couldn't hear the corporate manipulators telling me what products to buy next to destract me from all the fascism.
Posted by fad at 4:38pm
The Duck Moos At Midnight
As of this typing it is finally March 13, 2005. You know what to do.
Posted by fad at 1:10pm