Alright. Little "Eliot Info" for ya' all here: When I start reading a book, I become neurotically obsessed with it. I can't get it out of my head until I finish it, and even then I spend a lot of my spare time running a lot of 'what ifs' and 'I wonders'. Recently, I have been reading the Foundation Series, by Isaac Asimov. It's an interesting ( Read more... )

Oh c'mon!! GOOGLE MARS!! HOW FREAKING COOL IS THAT??!?

NEWS FLASH: It's snowing!! A Lot ( Read more... )

People are interesting. The more you pay attention, the more peculiar they become. There are a couple, however, that I have found on my way to work that are particularly peculiar. One man I have seen every day, for the most part, and I have no idea who he is or what he is doing. Every day, between 7:35 and 7:40 am, a man wearing a white ( Read more... )

Any day that I can incite a discussion about the merits of Batman as a superhero during class is automatically a good day.

Today is a good day.

Okay. So I made a few faux pas today. First, the girl who thought I had bad fashion added to her list of things that I should fix. Apparently my fashion is beyond bad. Oh well. A little later in the day, I had the students doing an assignment where they were given a goal (i.e., you want to be popular, you don't want to talk to anyone, you have ( Read more... )

How do you respond to a 9-year-old telling you that, and I quote:

*hand goes up*
Me: "Yes...?"
Girl: "I know today is supposed to be "...with appropriate finger quotes..." casual friday, but your outfit, is totally nineteen-nineties ( Read more... )

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScorePurgatory (Repenting Believers)Very LowLevel 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)HighLevel 2 (Lustful)ModerateLevel 3 (Gluttonous)ModerateLevel 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)LowLevel 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) ( Read more... )

Well, I have been looking at creating scripts to interface with Movable Type so that we can create quizzes that work on the ITS website so that we can train new employees. After a few days of staring at scripts and going through a few tutorials, I started working on a random script I had been curious about creating. Seven hours after starting ( Read more... )

Oh yes. Don't try and deny it. He hates kids. On a side note, I hate Charlie and the Chocolate factory: the new one. I thought it was a well done movie and it had much entertainment value (and I agree, squirrels were very real looking) but I still never want to see it again. I think I have some small amount of love for Gene Wilder that makes ( Read more... )