My Own Thoughts

Weight I am not making progress on Tim Ferris’ 20 pounds in 30 days thing. Of course, what he says to do in one chapter isn’t what he says to do in the other. And he says you can do some stuff he says you can’t do in other places. I’m frustrated and I am [...]

One of the schools I used to adjunct for just put up two full-time positions, with four descriptions. Two of them match me perfectly. But after their bizarre changes in management, I am not sure I would want to return there. Also, though I qualify, I think this is one of those times they would [...]

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Fence I want two new CDs: One with mushy songs: “God didn’t make little green apples and it don’t rain in Indianapolis in the summertime” “I’m the Happiest Girl in the Whole USA” “I Just Called to Say I Love You” “I’d Have to Be Crazy” by Willie Nelson She Doesn’t Know She’s Beautiful by [...]

Blackfive has an article on DADT. It’s worth a read for one military perspective–and some numbers you won’t find in the mainstream media.

The Star from American Digest begins with a quote from T. S. Eliot and then proceeds: Theirs was the Age of Myth; a world where night was not dimmed by the web of lights that now obscures the stars. Their nights were lit by flaring torches, dim oil lamps, guttering candles; by the phases of [...]

Once again Google has decided that my teaching site is malware. So once again Google keeps my students from seeing the website. Stupid Google. And Safari and Firefox buy into Google’s stupidity, so that I cannot work on my own website without getting malware notices that do not allow me to update my site. I [...]

Fabled as a site of biblical battles and spectacular palaces, Tel Megiddo today is a dusty mound overlooking Israel’s Jezreel valley. It is also host to one of the hottest debates in archaeology — a controversy over the historical truth of the Bible’s account of the first united Kingdom of Israel. Chemists Help Archaeologists

Joanne Jacobs had the story: Babylonian story problems on clay tablets are featured in a New York University exhibit, “Before Pythagoras: The Culture of Old Babylonian Mathematics,” reports the New York Times. Very cool math problems.

Two readings: Your Kids Aren’t Sick and Does It Matter What a Doctor Believes? You know how I feel about them.