Entries from February 2006

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Montessori

We went to the Montessori school in Hartford today.  If you don’t know what a Montessori school is, go to the AMI website and read a few things.  I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect, so I was pleasantly surprised. I observed two different classrooms, one primary (ages 3–5) and one, I’ll call it secondary (ages 6–9), [...]

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Grab, staple, toss, repeat

Today I tripled the total number of things I’ve stapled in my life.  Think about everything you’ve stapled in your life, everything, and try to put a number on it. One hundred, maybe two?  That’s a lot of stapling.  Today I stapled around 1000 papers.  That’s just the stuff I stapled, not the stuff I [...]

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Olympics Figure Skating

Does anyone care about figure skating anymore?  They’re been showing it all week in primetime.  Now they’re even showing the exhibition stuff.  It’s not even the competition.  That’s over with, it’s air time should be too.  Show bobsled.  Show skiing.  Show hockey.  Show curling. Show something else.  Show something that takes strategy.  Show something will a concrete [...]

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Tucker Carlson, HA!

How big of a douche bag is this guy?  I’ve never heard someone ask such agitating questions.  I gave him the benefit of the doubt before, when he hosted Crossfire, but now he has his own show on CNBC.  It sucks even more than Crossfire.  It was bad enough when he was half of the [...]

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

Group Blogging

Here’s what I want to do.  Have a blog, that multiple people can post to, but only one person is the administrator.  Does anyone know of free service that I can do that with?  It also needs to be easy to use.I tried some stuff with the wordpress.com blog, but I don’t get how this [...]

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

FIRST

I said I’d do this last night, so here it is:
OK, here goes.There was not a real time display of the score. I don’t know if it was because there isn’t going to be one,or FIRST was focusing on getting the field working. I’d say that they were making sure the field was fully working, [...]