I blog for my brain ... It gets too full sometimes, so throwing something out, in a place where things don't get lost , seems to let everything else fall into place. Sometimes there are things that interest people , sometimes not. My family hassles me less about my keeping in touch habits -- even if all that is there is a book review or an lol cat.Bonus. I don't twitter or facebook -- but I will join facebook when I get around to it - just 'cause it is where all my cousins are.

I suspect people think waterboarding is roughly equivalent to being dunked in the pool.

But that's not what it sounds like Burrell's students are saying -- it sounds like they are comparing it to having your fingers cut off one at a time or some shit.

there was a description of waterboarding in Cory Doctorow's Little Brother.

Even before I read it , I had an idea how bad it was. But I have an imagination.

Aww, damn--Stephen Hawking's in the hospital, seriously ill.

A&E just repeated the Crossing Jordan where Bug gets arrested by Homeland Security and waterboarded. Bad times, bad times.

Show cancellation status.

Life! I need Life!

I read that TV article earlier today. Seriously depressing.

AHHHH LIFE!!!! Easily my favorite show in the last 2 years.

Oh, man good luck with all of that. That sounds a bit like Leif, but right now Leif can sort of coast because 2nd grade is so easy for him.

Nate's a classic gifted kid hiding in the shell of the underachiever (his grades are either A or F). I'm not going to have him tested though, because gifted at his school is just more of the same he's doing as a quote/unquote regular student.

He has processing issues and his handwriting is atrocious, further hampering his processing ability. All of his teachers have noticed if he's isolated in the media center, he can actually get his work done in a more timely fashion.

That's it-- I've come to the conclusion that the child was born in the wrong era-- he needed to be a wealthy Victorian child, educated by governesses or young, pale Divinity graduates from Oxford, looking to earn money until they secured a parish of their own.

In more cheering news, here's an article about how the president gets ten letters a day from the public to read and respond to -- the sidebar has three of the letters, and his three responses. [link]

That handwiriting thing doesn't get better on its own. Yesterday a minion asked me to fill out a letter of recommendation that had to be hand written. I wrote very slowly and in all caps. I hope your supervisor's penmanship is not a factor in the application review process.