New perceptions on education ( Read more... )

Here's a 9th century joke:

A certain man claimed to be God and was brought before the Caliph, who said to him, "Last year someone here claimed to be a prophet, and he was put to death!" The man replied, "It was well that you did so, for I did not send him."

I look forward to the day I can tell my children jokes like this.

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Somehow, I was able to spend my entire evening in the library without accomplishing much at all. The problem with trying to work in the library, I find, is that I'm too likely to be distracted by the presence of books. Such that I find myself concentrating less on the work I'm suppose to be reading and more on random things that take my interest ( Read more... )

I have finally decided to start a new journal, one without the tedious theatre format of my first. Since I didn't have the heart to destroy those old entries, however, I have left them up for those still interested in reading them. Hopefully, this time I'll be able to overcome my tendencies towards laziness and procrasination to actually update ( Read more... )

Will Inspector Field be long about this work? He may be half-an-hour longer ( Read more... )