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Our schools suffer from inertia. It is not a good thing. Damn those unions. This is from a classmate in my Unix class:
In terms of public education, the student’s don’t learn much about an operating system thought the educational system. I work in a public school system in [...]

I had high hopes for this season’s freshman hit Heroes — and for the most part, they were all met. Some of my hopes for the show were even exceeded. I sat down last night and this afternoon and watched the rest of the Heroes season after they returned from their haitus.
The [...]

Here’s something I don’t get:  Why turn on your turn signal when you are already in the turn lane?
Are you going to go straight?  Are you going to turn the other way?  Is it not obvious that you will be turning left if you are in the turn lane?

From Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”:
There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.
In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is [...]

This is a great idea.  It is a wonder why I had not found it earlier.  The site is DailyLit.com and what they do is send snippets of books via email to people.  So, “The Art of War” comes broken into 17 little five-minute reads, one piece is sent per day.  You can get [...]

Hehe.  Hold on while I stop laughing.  “Wal-Mart” and “fashion” in the same sentence?  Whoever came up with such a silly idea?  Apparently, someone at Wal-Mart did.
The world’s largest retailer said Monday it will reduce by an undisclosed amount the number the U.S. stores selling a fashion line by designer Mark Eisen, which it [...]

OK, after watching my fill of both these shows, I deem Survivorman the winner in the “I am a crazy foreigner trying to survive in the wilderness” contest. Sure, Bear from “Man vs. Wild” is a former British SAS operative and has climbed Everest. Sure, in one episode Bear drinks moisture squuezed [...]