DCJ, much strength to your family.

And I found a pic of the dress: [link] And that page would be really useful if they were going with more of what I like about the dress--the cut of the arms and the slight stiffness of the A-line. I love a good A-line. But they're mostly red and zip--the dress they link to is cute, but I'm not going into craving convulsions or anything.

Like I so often do.

Tech question: my understanding of bing and google's image search technology is that they're looking for text matches near pictures, and that's why sometimes you get a hit for the next person in the article, not the one you're looking for. Is there anything out there that's parsing images for the keywords you specify? I know you can filter by visual cues such as colour at both sites, but I'm interested in more.

Athletic Wear Inspired by Totem Poles by Adidas Originals

How in the world could Adidas be unaware of the problems with this? It's not like other appropriation fails weren't publicized.

18 severed human heads discovered at O'Hare airport

The photo on that article is hilarious. And now the conversation has me saying, "What's in the box?! WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!!!"

ita, you probably don't watch New Girl, but when I saw this dress I thought of you: [link]

sara, yeah, my usual peeps - Close Up.

I'd much prefer a package of steno pads and pretzel m&ms to a package of severed human heads.

Right? I was pretty happy when I opened it up. But then, pretty much anything I might actually receive has got to be better than severed heads. Illegitimate severed heads, because I have got no business receiving body parts of any kind.

I had someone in my class observing today and it was the day that the kids from the group home wanted to share about life in juvie. Sigh.

Ha. Isn't that always how it is?

The best part, it was during a focused socractic seminar. So when he decided to (over?)share, it was while he had the floor and it was on a discussion of the difference between punishment and revenge. So first he cursed and I had to shut that down. Then he had a million personal stories of how juvie isn't a deterrent how he still does drug and drinks alcohol and how kids like him should be locked away for life.

I couldn't figure out if it were posturing or what.

I handled it as best as I could, but honestly, all last semester he fell asleep in class Every Single Day so this is an improvement? Sort of.

ita,

Revenge:

it isn't clear to me that Nolan did lose a lot of $$. I thought he was bought out or had $$ squirreled away somewhere.

~ma to your mother and family, DCJ.

And now the conversation has me saying, "What's in the box?! WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!!!"

I am a bad person because I find that line funny by now. Possibly because the movie itself was actually scary and it's my coping method.

I couldn't figure out if it were posturing or what.

It sounds like it could be. Ugh.

Cass, except he is in foster care at a group home and I do know he's had two trips to Juvie.

Oh, I assumed he actually had been in Juvie and had a tough life. I read it as he was acting tougher than the experience - that if he said he was worthless then no one else saying it could hurt him.

I'm realizing now there might be a technical definition of posturing that I don't know.

And I know I am way over identifying your student with N (who can use Google and knows his nickname from me but probably won't be just reading) who seems to think if he lowers expectations enough and does enough "bad" things ... I don't know. I can't follow his logic. I just know that N is hurting his own life more than the rest of our family in the long term. And he's (N) an idiot because he's got so many opportunities. Plus in a few years he's going to be 18 and then he's going to end up screwed at this rate.