Students. You gotta love ‘em. Sometimes they write the darndest things (these students are mine, these aren’t). And sometimes they say the darndest things. The context of this assignment is a presentation for a speech class. The assignment was for each group to present a newscast complete with visuals (via powerpoint), sports, news, weather, and …
Monthly Archive: February 2007
Feb
15
You’ve Won!
A couple of weeks ago, a colleague of mine received a very exciting email informing him that he’d won a huge amount of money from some odd (but very official sounding) oversees organization. They didn’t ask for any personal information so my friend replied, thanked them, and let them know he couldn’t wait to start …
Feb
06
Why stupidity is a good thing
A couple of weeks ago I read an amusing column by Joe Soucheray in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In it he wrote about how the educational system we’re pouring billions of dollars into is failing because it continues to crank out idiots who (among other things) don’t understand that you can actually die from …
Feb
03
How the dead of winter makes me feel alive
I snapped this picture around noon today. Before then this pheasant was huddled in the bushes near our house. But almost every day around noon, he flies into the branches of this crab apple tree for lunch. The cool thing about this tree is that the crab apples don’t drop off and it’s smack in …
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