Jun 17 2008
Battlestar Galactica mid-season thoughts
Warning, movie reference that will be a spoiler both for that movie and the mid-season ep of BSG, below the break.
May 30 2008
HCHS Represent
Heh. At least we got mentioned:
The Public Elites
Some schools didn’t make our list because their students are too good. The best of the best.NEWSWEEK’s Challenge Index is designed to recognize schools that challenge average students, and not magnet or charter schools that draw only the best students in their areas. These top performers, listed below in alphabetical order, were excluded from the list of top high schools because, despite their exceptional quality, their sky-high SAT and ACT scores indicate they have few or no average students.
[snippage to lower on the page]
Hunter College High School, New York City: College prep school that serves grades 7-12 and is tied to the City University of New York system.
Oddly enough, Bronx Science got better sounding coverage than Stuyvesant, and Brooklyn Tech wasn’t mentioned at all.
(This was accidentally set as a Page, rather than a Post. It was originally posted on May 19th)
May 19 2008
Blogmeme, stolen from Gareth
What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well rounded. Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish.
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May 19 2008
Decline of the suburbs and exurbs?
Found via a post on the Flyertalk OMNI board:
04.28.08 | Chicago
Driven to the Brink
A new analysis shows that high gas prices are not only implicated in the bursting of the housing bubble, but that the higher cost of commuting has already re-shaped the landscape of real estate value between cities and suburbs. Housing values are falling fastest in distant suburban and exurban neighborhoods where affordability depended directly on cheap gas.
Read the press release here.
Download the full study here.
The full study is not super-long and is well worth a read.
Apr 22 2008
Your tax dollars at work…
Well, if you’re British…
New UK Office of Government Commerce logo
Don’t want to hotlink the logo image, so go have a look, tilt your head left, and get a laugh.
Apr 15 2008
“What D&D character are you?” (cool blogmeme)
I Am A: Neutral Good Human Wizard (4th Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength-12
Dexterity-13
Constitution-11
Intelligence-16
Wisdom-14
Charisma-11
Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.
Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.
Class:
Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard’s strength is her spells, everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition, over time a wizard learns to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. A wizard can call a familiar- a small, magical, animal companion that serves her. With a high Intelligence, wizards are capable of casting very high levels of spells.
Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)
Apr 01 2008
Where I’ve been…
This has been on my facebook page for a while, but I saw I could embed it here, so here you go…
Mar 31 2008
Shaved my head
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Marie said it would make me look like an egg. It sort of did, although this photo (taken after about 60 hours’ re-growth) doesn’t really show it.
Mar 10 2008
Attack of the spiders!
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