a politician who has little to hide

Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, the mayor of Arlington OR, was indignant that local residents found a photo she posted on her MySpace page. It shows the very fit politician wearing only a black bra and panties standing by one of the town's fire trucks. Why did she expect privacy online? "That's my space," she said. "That's why they call it MySpace." Voters recalled her from office, 142 to 139, with virtually all of the town's registered voters casting a vote. (Pendleton East Oregonian)

Teaching and Learning Quotes

Adults are obsolete children. - Theodor Seuss Geisel a.k.a. Dr. Seuss

Ashes to ashes / Dust to dust / Oil those brains / Before they rust. - Jack Prelutsky (A. Nonny Mouse Writes Again!, 1993)

Behold the superfluous! They steal the works of the inventors and the treasures of the sages for themselves; "education" they call their theft - and everything turns to sickness and misfortune for them. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, 1891)

By words the mind is winged. - Aristophanes (4th C. BC)

Chance favors the trained mind. -- Louis Pasteur

Cleverness is not wisdom. -- Euripides

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. -- Laurence Sterne (The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 1759)

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -- Will Durant

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- Dan Stanford

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. -- H. H. Williams

to be continued

computer humor

Calm down, it's only ones and zeros.

Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue...

If it's not on fire then it's a software problem.

If you can kick it, it's hardware. If you can only curse it, it's software.

Life would be much easier if I had the source code.

Unable to exit Windows. Try the door.

When all else fails, read the instructions.

Why do Computer Scientists confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because Oct 31 = Dec 25.

Windows: just another pane in the glass.

#define QUESTION (0x2B | ~0x2B) -- Shakespeare.

29A, the hexadecimal number of the Beast.

Dear Chloe

I went to the rehearsal of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra last night. One of the songs they sang and played is Daphnis et Chloe by Maurice Ravel. It is quite beautiful, much as you are.

The story behind the music is a pastoral romance attributed to the 4th century Greek sophist, Longus. Your mother can explain that to you.

I am going to look for a CD of the music for you.

love

the grandpup

peeps haiku

Sugar coma gleams
in the beady waxen eyes
nothing can dissolve.

Up on the top shelf
reached only by wobbly chair-
they wait, tempting me.

That perfect staleness
Sugar crunch and chewy mush
Party in your mouth!

Chocolate rabbits
compared to those fluffy peeps
seem somehow ... hollow.

Close the microwave,
push some buttons, and behold,
it's Jabba the Peep!

Seemingly harmless
their artificial colors
make some men go mad.

Yellow over white,
like pee on fresh fallen snow
it might taste better!

and so it goes

America magazine has a blog called In All Things.

I liked this entry so I decided to post a comment. Won't happen. Website won't accept it. This is what it was.

While we were driving here, I noticed a small shrine by the side of the street. We stopped and asked what is was for. The boy and the girl said their friend had been killed there a few days ago. They were mourning him.

We stopped at a small store and bought these candles. I am going to light them and leave then here a ground zero where so many died. We should all do this every so often at a place special to us to remember those lost to violence. And to pledge our resolve not to raise our hand against our sisters and brothers.

Peace of the Risen Christ be with us all

Of course as soon as I posted this, my post worked.

you can tell tweeter has two munchkins

Daddy was packing for a business trip and his three year old daughter was having a wonderful time playing on the bed. At one point she said,"Daddy, look at this" , and stuck out two of her fingers. Trying to keep her entertained, he reached out and stuck her tiny fingers in my mouth and said,

Daddy's gonna eat your fingers,

Pretending to eat them. He went back to packing, looked up again and his daughter was standing on the bed staring at her fingers with a devastated look on her face. He said,

What's wrong, honey?

She replied,

What happened to my booger?

Be well and proper

Beware of dropped s's spell check won't catch. Drooping s's are unavoidable but dropping can be difficult.

shame!

Ted Kennedy Dumps Fuel into Nantucket Sound