Interestingly enough, back last century before I myself graduated in ‘99, there were times I prayed for at least a C+…
The me generation meets the education system: A student is suing his teacher and a school district about a C+ grade
Saturday, July 28, 2012
The me generation meets the education system: A student is suing his teacher and a school district about a C+ grade
The me generation meets the education system: A student is suing his teacher and a school district about a C+ grade
Biking during the Olympics
Biking at an exponential speed is hard enough during the Olympics. . but London’s summer heat coupled with fans breaking the safety rules and almost standing directly in front of Olympic bikers just for a snapshot on their camera makes things a little worse. Sure, these problems have been around since I guess bikes themselves. But watching some coverage this morning of racing, I am amazed with how no one is being hit or injured by athletes..
I get confused and horrified by some of the Google searches that lead to my site
And I often don’t get them. I have nothing on here about dismembered genitals. But someone came across this little hole on the net by searching for that very term, albeit the person’s search was more offensive than the one I used. So now I need to think about my writings, my musings, and my terms…
Speaking of the parade of nations..
Don’t get me wrong, I am not a crazed person who worships the youth or beauty of someone’s face. Beauty is skin deep and under wonderful skin is often ugly creatures that deserve no time.
But I will say this: While trying to ignore the political talk banter of Matt Lauer and Bob Costas last night (is it me or were they just checking Wikipedia ever time they saw a new nation?) I was struck with how beautiful all the athletes are. Well, some Romanians scared me, and I certainly wouldn’t cross the flag bearer from South Africa.
The athletes were just immersed in makeup and wonderful attire. And their hair was perfect.. their cameras were out. Oh, and at least 15 condoms each wait for them when they exit Olympic stadium.
Whenever I see Queen Elizabeth, my American mind can’t help but think about the first NAKED GUN movie with Leslie Neilsen ended up on top of her when she fictitiously visited Los Angeles. But a true unappreciated scene of that movie was just how board she was at the fictitious Dodgers baseball game.
Fast forward about 20 years to reality: The Queen was snapped picking her nails just when Great Britain marched into Olympic stadium for the parade of nations, the culmination of excitement for the crowd after seeing all the other member states come in. Perhaps it was all those countries with ‘anias’ or “stans’ that forced the Queen to become tired by the spectacle. She did, after all, jump out of a chopper, right?
Here is the story from Yahoo! Sports on the subject. Even the UK TELEGRAPH said that the Queen and the Royal Family looked bored.
Friday, July 27, 2012
Now it feels like summer
There has been heat wave after heat wave. Droughts abundant. The Mississippi River is drying up and corn crops are obliterated. But it truly didn’t feel like summer until the parade of nations in London. The Olympics will take our minds off of real life for a while.
The irony is these nations that march in together and place their flags side by side often hate each other and are confined to wars with each other.
We are in the 21st century but yet so many of the people from countries coming in are leaving a homeland of disease, death, and pestilence.
The modern era is still a stone age for some.
But the games are beginning..
Tears .. Gold medals .. high drama. High expectations. And high security.
Let there be peace on each for two weeks but a battle in sports!
Let there be peace on earth after that too. Too hard to ask?
Yea.. I guess so.
This was the Queen after her pretend entrance. Did they try to make it look like she really did parachute in?
Her cameo in the James Bond style joke is the talk of British papers already.
AND THEY BEGIN!
2012 LONDON. Opening ceremony now. Later in the USA time zones
You read that right. While the Olympics opening ceremonies are occurring as I type (4pm on the East Coast of North America) the United States won’t be privy to the might and majesty of the occasion until PRIME TIME. NBC did issue some type of bogus press release high in PR as to why Americans will wait longer than other Earthlings to view the ceremony.
The real reason, of course, comes down to the traditional thing TV network execs care about: Ratings. Business INSIDER reports on that part of the story.
Maybe you can follow on Twitter. Find your favorite British Tweeter now. It just will lack the majesty of something broadcast on the TEE VEE..
24/7 news cycle? Internet age?
TIME DELAYS baby. The old meets the new!
Who’s mighty now?
Not so mighty: Mississippi at record lows, forces ligher barges..
Mississippi River dropping in Memphis..
Receding Mississippi exposing historic relics..
The Midwest is suffering its worst drought in 50 years.. Could this be the ‘new’ norm? Will the United States go from bread basket of the world to the dust bowl of the planet? Will the record warmth continue? More and more hot records relative to cold records have taken place for some time.. The past two years have seen many more hot records as opposed to cold records. These recent heat waves have made this drought much worse—after a winter of almost no snow in much of the United States. Global changes are in full effect. Big economic impacts will be coming this fall, expect that at a grocery store near you. The fires that we saw this year may be a new norm, too.. Earth changes will get worse and worse.. Greenland has lost 97% of its ice. Even the highest points in Greenland are melting. Major transformations of landscapes coming—coastal area flooding? worst case could be a massive sea rise?
But planes still fly and cars still drive. If manmade impacts are the reasons for warming, then humans seem not to care. If it’s the earth itself, humans are in for a wild ride—one not seens for centuries..
The drought that is occurring has some ominous signs for our future.. In Illinois, people are beginning to become alarmed with just how dry and hot things have been.. The drought in the United States is also going to cause problems for China..
The drought and constant heat waves that have hit the United States this summer have been only intensifying and shows no signs of receding.. According to one report, the drought size has increased by the ‘size of Texas’..
This summer’s horrid weather will have one extremely negative ramification for this world.. for our wallets.. for us: Food prices will skyrocket until at least 2013..
Street view named desire: Google broke its promise
Google got caught illegally obtaining street view information. It told regulators it would delete the data. Google said sorry when it admitted that it didn’t delete some of what it said it would..
Street view named desire: Google broke its promise
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
New information: James Holmes sent his notebook to his psychiatrist detailing plans on how he would massacre a movie theater.. it went unopened in the University of Colorado since July 12
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