Entries from September 2006

Friday, September 29th, 2006

The Feud

This is the first Friday that I don’t have anything to do.  So naturally I turned on one of my favorite afternoon shows, Family Feud.  The first thing I saw was a new set.  “Not so bad” I thought, but then they dropped the bomb.  “Here’s the host of Family Feud, John O’Hurley.  WTF?  What [...]

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

My teeth, my lovely lady teeth

I went to the orthodontist the other day.  I used to have this wire thing cemented inside my lower front teeth.  It wasn’t visible, nor annoying.  Hell, I actually forgot it was there.  I had it removed when I was there.  It felt strange at first.  They replaced the wire with a retainer that I [...]

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Shoes

Apparently I’m terrible at tying my shoes.  this morning, I had my shoes on for 45 minutes before they came untied and 30 of that 45 minutes was in the car, not walking.  I don’t know if it’s my shoe laces or that I suck at tying them.  Does anyone have any tips for tying your [...]

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Another reason to use Opera

Chew on this:  http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060925-7818.html

Monday, September 25th, 2006

State of Tech Ed.

I just got out of my TE 299 class.  There was a very interesting discussion about the future of technology education in public school.  Let me give you some background first.

Greg Kane talked to our class last week.  He is the state tech ed coordinator.  He mentioned that a lot if the shops (auto, machine, [...]

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Lego explosion

First off, I don’t know how much I ‘m going to be updating this.  I tend to be really busy (more than usual) so I don’t really have time to update.  When I do have free time, I like to do absolutely nothing.
Anyway, lego league started last week.  We had seventeen kids show up.  If [...]