dinner is always good.

So I'm digging around MySpace and spying on my students. I especially like the fact that one of the kids, in her profile put:

Hair Color: pink like my teacher's hair

bwahahahaah..

Also, myspace? weird. They need to put less personal info out there so publically.

I've heard that about Myspace, Kat. But then I've seen people put the most TMI things on LJ, too. Can you lock or filter Myspace posts?

a guy at my work is really active on myspace. it kinda weirds me out, but then again I am on a (formally) Buffy board all day long, so there's that.

I guess the TMI stuff is fascinating to me because, like most of us, my students have the sense that they can't be found. But, silly children. I found them in less than 30 minutes. It helps that their group is the name of my school. Grrr.

I'm creeped out that they put their pictures out there.

You can lock things to friends only, like LJ.

I mean, in fairness, my LJ has way too much info about me. But at this point, it's all locked because, I'd like to have nominal control over dissemination of the info I put out there.

There's a myspace group for the krav centre. One of the members was trying to talk me into joining myspace and the group.

Oh, many sorts of hell no.

oh, want to go find and register as you now.

Knock yourself out.

Is it silly of me to think that the IT support team members, after being told by another member of the team "perkins is having problem X; she has already rebooted several times, and she is still having problem X," might have something more productive to say then "Reboot. That will make it work"?

I mean, obviously it is silly for ME to think it, since that's exactly what happened, but would it still be silly for those not in Bizarro IT world?

msbelle, I have pics you can use!

These koans, or parables, were translated into English from a book called the Shaseki-shu (Collection of Stone and Sand), written late in the thirteenth century by the Japanese Zen teacher Muju (the "non-dweller"), and from anecdotes of Zen monks taken from various books published in Japan around the turn of the 20th century.

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This one cracked me up:

Ikkyu, the Zen master, was very clever even as a boy. His teacher had a precious teacup, a rare antique. Ikkyu happened to break this cup and was greatly perplexed. Hearing the footsteps of his teacher, he held the pieces of the cup behind him. When the master appeared, Ikkyu asked: "Why do people have to die?"

"This is natural," explained the older man. "Everything has to die and has just so long to live."

Ikkyu, producing the shattered cup, added: "It was time for your cup to die."