My wife throws a dinner party at church each year to tell the Sunday School teachers that she appreciates them. This year’s theme was a Chinese dinner. She wanted me to present riddles to the tables. I figured I needed some exposition.
They have us beat on moves but not soundtrack.
But these guys own.
Okay, so the Star Wars Lifeday Special is not THE WORST Christmas special ever.
My students created iMovie trailers for books that they read. We then held the 2nd annual film festival during 8th grade lunch. It was standing room only. I wish I could put the photos up, but, well, stalkers and all.
Have you ever wanted to be in danger of losing body function control during gameplay?
Do you like pajunk jumping out of corners at you?
Have you ever tried to punch a ghost?
Are you tired of sleeping?
My brother got F.E.A.R. for the PS3 today. You can’t say we weren’t warned. (What’s really funny was that I was checking out Wario Ware Smooth Moves. There is somewhat of a difference.)
If I had to describe the game in twenty words, I would describe it as a “fling the controller to the ground and cry like Neville Chamberlain and then pick it back up again four times” good time.
You are a super cop hunting ghosts and zombies. You have a machine gun (which still makes you feel naked) and a flashlight. It truly does have the feel of a horror cinematic experience. (Down to the indistinguishable voices in the head.) Where it diverges is the ability to scissor kick and jump.
But!
It had me scared.
I will call my brother in two days just to make sure that he’s feeling alright.
I find it funny that Penny Arcade posts about games made for three year-olds now.
Starfall being a fun learning site is one example.
I have been extremely happy with Norton, but I am trying out a free alternative on the MacBook dual-boot (the thing is safe until you put Windows on it).
I’m trying out AVG.
We’ll see how it goes. I’m running a scan on it right now.
While we wait, I’ll give you an artistic rendering of the gutsy cockroach that was perched on Tarfuul’s claws on my desktop when I got in from Mutants and Masterminds at 2am.
(As portrayed in Paint)
Friggin’ Cocky Cockroach was staring at me with its twitchy antennae.
Baby wipes can be used on wookiees.
Be watching this for some cool updates.
(But what about wikis?)
It’s good. We watched it today as a part of a faculty meeting. My principal came up to me afterwards.
Any time that the principal can say, “You go through this every day.” about me is a good time.
I wouldn’t be a card-carrying dork if I couldn’t show you this.
I think I’ve seen this one before.
Sorry to drop in on you, but you were referred to us by a friend / working associate.
As of January 2006 our University
You know, THE University
has started a work experience degree program.
We can offer you 3 of the following choices:- Associate Degree
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Master’s Degree
Visit our sister school at CGNU to earn a degree in Cheesing People Off. Just draw the Guy with Big Knife.
Our work experience / life experience degrees
Meaning you lack enough experience to understand ‘gullible’
are the same degrees we give our full time students,
In accordance with CGNU’s standards for Cheesing People Off
but we base them upon your past knowledge and therefore require no studying.
(For dumb people like you.)
Due to back logs
Back logs? How do their records slow things down? Maybe I shouldn’t poke fun so quickly…
we will need 1-2 weeks to verify your information and send your degree with transcripts in the mail.
If you also receive credit card bills for Porsches and long distance calls to Bucharest, it wasn’t us.
Our Education office
So mysterious and ever-Important that it gets capitalized
has someone available 24 hours a day, 7 Days a week.
Working in the back alleys/red light districts of Romania
If you are interested
Or a moron
then call us at:
1- 270- 837- 3127
I had a student who was the odd man out for choosing partners to peer edit essays today. 28 students were paired, he was student 29.
No joke, he started singing ‘All by Myself‘. Kid’s funny. (But don’t tell him that or else he’ll turn annoying.)
I’m writing some mysteries that involve math sequences, and with Fibonacci becoming so trendy, I’ve been searching some of the blogs out there.
You gotta love math legends…
The $100 laptop is a great idea to me, especially as a teacher who is also nerd-ish (maybe less “-ish” than I realize). Here’s part of their vision:
XO is built from free and open-source software. Our commitment to software freedom gives children the opportunity to use their laptop computers on their own terms. While we do not expect every child to become a programmer, we do not want any ceiling imposed on those children who choose to modify their machines. We are using open-document formats for much the same reason: transparency is empowering. The children—and their teachers—will have the freedom to reshape, reinvent, and reapply their software, hardware, and content.
So, in reading this article, did your mind once linger on the thought, “Man! Bill Gates would love this! Open source and he are the best of friends!”
Yeah. Windows isn’t known for its “let’s open it up and rewrite the code”. It’s also a beast when it comes to hard drive space, and the 1 gig hard drive wouldn’t load much more than Windows on it. There’s also talk of bringing the laptop up to $175. Blargh.
My sensors indicate that we are losing vision.
In other disturbing news, an Austrian group is trying to have certain inalienable rights granted to a chimpanzee. Hiasl the chimp has gone through some pretty traumatic stuff, being kidnapped from Sierra Leone in 1982. People want to donate, but they can’t because only people in Austria can receive donations.
So why can’t the handlers receive donations? I don’t know. I do know they want him and his “lifemate” Rosi to be able to afford their $6,800/month food and medical.
I will save you the trouble. I am already a human. Send me the money.
Here is the alternative:
Yes, my friends, General Grodd should not be overlooked. I don’t think he received a fair trial, what with the Flash pretending to be brain-controlled only to then super-vibrate the Telepathy Helm on Gorilla Grodd’s noggin’.
Do not the citizens of Gorilla City have certain inalienable rights? Like the right to vote? Or to build giant lasers?
Fun.
To say any more would create spoilers to some degree.
So, to continue.
Fun because it has some of the comic book camera shots from the second movie. Remember Doc Ock going crazy in the recovery room and it switches to Evil Dead Behind The Tentacle POV? There’s some of that, including Venom picking up a martini and dancing in a jazz club. Yeah, I’m being serious.
All of my favorite characters returned: Sam Raimi, Bruce Cambell (who keeps repeating, “I am French” and grunting), Tobey Maguire, and some Kirsten girl. Gwen Stacy shows up, so any big Spidey fans know that they’re treating the fans, just like how the professor is missing an arm.
It is a lot of stuff packed into one movie. I had heard that Tobey didn’t want to make a Spider-man 4 so they made it longer. Third movie = three villains. If Tobey doesn’t do it, I just hope Marvel doesn’t DC/Clooney it up.
I think it’s funny that Topher Grace is playing Eddie Brock because I used to think that Tobey Maguire and he were the same person.
From Newsweek:
The patient couldn’t be revived because the tissues of his brain and heart had suffered irreversible damage from lack of oxygen. This process was understood to begin after just four or five minutes. If the patient doesn’t receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation within that time, and if his heart can’t be restarted soon thereafter, he is unlikely to recover. That dogma went unquestioned until researchers actually looked at oxygen-starved heart cells under a microscope. What they saw amazed them, according to Dr. Lance Becker, an authority on emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. “After one hour,” he says, “we couldn’t see evidence the cells had died. We thought we’d done something wrong.” In fact, cells cut off from their blood supply died only hours later.
But if the cells are still alive, why can’t doctors revive someone who has been dead for an hour? Because once the cells have been without oxygen for more than five minutes, they die when their oxygen supply is resumed. It was that “astounding” discovery, Becker says, that led him to his post as the director of Penn’s Center for Resuscitation Science, a newly created research institute operating on one of medicine’s newest frontiers: treating the dead.
Biologists are still grappling with the implications of this new view of cell death—not passive extinguishment, like a candle flickering out when you cover it with a glass, but an active biochemical event triggered by “reperfusion,” the resumption of oxygen supply. The research takes them deep into the machinery of the cell, to the tiny membrane-enclosed structures known as mitochondria where cellular fuel is oxidized to provide energy. Mitochondria control the process known as apoptosis, the programmed death of abnormal cells that is the body’s primary defense against cancer. “It looks to us,” says Becker, “as if the cellular surveillance mechanism cannot tell the difference between a cancer cell and a cell being reperfused with oxygen. Something throws the switch that makes the cell die.”
With this realization came another: that standard emergency-room procedure has it exactly backward. When someone collapses on the street of cardiac arrest, if he’s lucky he will receive immediate CPR, maintaining circulation until he can be revived in the hospital. But the rest will have gone 10 or 15 minutes or more without a heartbeat by the time they reach the emergency department. And then what happens? “We give them oxygen,” Becker says. “We jolt the heart with the paddles, we pump in epinephrine to force it to beat, so it’s taking up more oxygen.” Blood-starved heart muscle is suddenly flooded with oxygen, precisely the situation that leads to cell death. Instead, Becker says, we should aim to reduce oxygen uptake, slow metabolism and adjust the blood chemistry for gradual and safe reperfusion.
Researchers are still working out how best to do this.
Yeah, please figure out the best way to do this.
Dear Brother,
Thanks for your kindness to me towards this transaction,
I want you to know that you are the only person who know about this transaction
and I promise you that I am here to protect your image and be giving you all fundamental information until this fund enters into your account hence you have agreed to assist me with all your heart.
What I want from you is to assure me of your capability of handling this transfer with trust by giving me the following information about yourself:1) Your age
2) Your occupation.
3) Are you married?
4) Tel N.
5 fax no
6 passport copy as attachment
Base on this I will advise you to feel free all is well,
I studied this transaction very well before contacting you for assistance.
Well, having served this bank for so many years now and nearing my retirement I deem it necessary to utilize this opportunity of the present unclaimed sum of money in the account sent inconjuction with the first proposal I sent to you to help myself and my family after my retirement through the investment I will establish in your country with my percentage in the transaction.
There is no doubt about your eligibility as the legal next of kin to our deceased customer and owner of the account number NADB4934109, with the following reasons:(a)Before the death of our deceased customer his true next of kin was not indicated to the board of directors of the bank because of the top secrecy and confidentiality of the transactions which our late customer transacted with the various governments in West Africa .(b)Owning to his failure to indicate his next of kin to the officials of the bank, it is therefore impossible for the board of directors of the bank to verify the next of kin as well as the true heartier of the fund.
(c)And for the above reasons the managements of the bank authorized me officially as the executive assistant manager, bill and exchange department of the bank to verify the next of kin to our deceased customer. Therefore, the bank will always abide by my official directions through the official authorization bestowed on me. And for this reasons you have nothing to fear as your interest and identity will be legally protected.More so, the only information required from you by the bank is your banking data’s as contained in the official application which I will give you to send to our bank after your immediate response because the receipt of your application is the commencement of the official process of this transaction.
Now I will like to use this opportunity to tell you the detail information concerning our deceased customer. He held account number NADB4934109, ROUTING No: 91002211 with our bank. He died in america with his family as I stated in my first mail. Since his death, this account has been dormant and nobody has applied to our bank for the release of this money to him or her as the next of kin.As the Bill and Exchange Assistant Manager of this bank, I have studied this transaction very carefully and I have noted that there are no risks involved. I am here to protect all your interests in this transaction until this money hits your account. Since I am here I shall be giving you all the developmental information from the bank as soon as this transaction commences.
I know that you will not disappoint me when this money enters your account;
I have all my hope in this transaction because I shall soon go on retirement. I am a simple banker whose credibility is still intact and with my maturity and understanding, I promise to give you the best co-operation. We must hurry up with this transaction so that our bank and the government shall not claim and inherit this money because it has over-stayed.
After the bank have approve your application as next of kin to our late customer I will fly down to your country for investment with my own share, but I will advise you to keep it as a top secret because no body known about this transaction except you and I.
For more details contact me with my private number +225 06 18 84 01THANKS,
DR. ADAMU SHINKAFFII
