So I asked the current Solicitor General for intel on Roberts. Turns out they didn't overlap much under Starr, so no news there. OTOH, the current SG is all over the papers right now due to his stance that the entire US is a battlefield in the War on Terra Terror. [link]
Honestly, you meet the most appalling sort of people....
Giles ,'Chosen'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Volans - Jul 21, 2005 2:26:36 am PDT #1747 of 10002
move out and draw fire
billytea - Jul 21, 2005 2:26:49 am PDT #1748 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
an you go with that shark grin Billytea!
t makes note to file teeth into points
Volans - Jul 21, 2005 2:47:25 am PDT #1749 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Nilly - Jul 21, 2005 2:59:46 am PDT #1750 of 10002
Swouncing
beth! Raquel! billytea!
Rant warning ahead! Continue at your own frustration-spilling risk!
So, the lecturer gave me the question of the exam a little over an hour ago. He's a rather new immigrant, so his Hebrew is not so well, and he wanted me to correct it. It turned out, it was easier and quicker for me to just re-type the whole thing instead. There were pictures inside that I had to add, too (or he would have tried to draw them by hand, and you can imagine how deciperable they will be to the students then). Every several minutes, he called to asked me whether I've finished already, because the people who are supposed to photocopy and handle the exam were pressing him for time. All throughout, I might add, students kept coming in every few minutes, to ask questions, hand in papers and ask for old ones back. Each time that happened, I minimized my window so fast, it looked like I was hunting for pr0n sites on university computers.
Sigh. The most annoying part is, he's a really genuinely good man, who tries to do the best possible thing for everybody involved. He's, just, well, having a very fluid notion of time. Which, as a physics professor who just finished teaching a class on special relativity, is not necessarily a bad thing, mind you. And I can't even be angry at him because of that delay, because he really was trying, and he gave good questions, and I think he had some health problem in the last month that made it even harder for him to meet shcedules.
Oh, well. Off to actually solve the exam, so that when the students come asking me about it later, I have answers for them.
[Edit: oh, and I may get my HP6 copy tonight, so things will look brighter then.]
Jesse - Jul 21, 2005 3:55:05 am PDT #1751 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ugh, Nilly. Sometimes people are annoying.
So nice to read what's new with Rio!
And now the stupid news is all full of possible bombs in London again and subway lines shut down. Poor London.
Fred Pete - Jul 21, 2005 3:57:33 am PDT #1752 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
subway lines shut down
I'd heard 3 stations. Has it spread?
billytea - Jul 21, 2005 3:58:15 am PDT #1753 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
beth! Raquel! billytea!
Nilly! Are you enjoying an exam-fuelled lull right now?
Nilly - Jul 21, 2005 3:58:29 am PDT #1754 of 10002
Swouncing
Jesse, the Israeli online news site that I checked said that there weren't bombs - there were probably firecrackers (I hope that's the right English word) and that nobody got hurt.
Fred Pete - Jul 21, 2005 4:00:20 am PDT #1755 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Nilly, according to the article, it probably was the equivalent of firecrackers (and yes, that's the word).
Still, after two weeks ago....
Volans - Jul 21, 2005 4:00:51 am PDT #1756 of 10002
move out and draw fire
AP says:
McCracken said he smelled smoke at the Warren Street station, and people were panicking and coming into his carriage. He said he spoke to an Italian man who was comforting a woman after the evacuation.
"He said that a man was carrying a rucksack and the rucksack suddenly exploded. It was a minor explosion but enough to blow open the rucksack," McCracken said.
"The man then made an exclamation as if something had gone wrong. At that point everyone rushed from the carriage."
Bollocks! My lunch exploded!