Today. One year since he's gone. Seems like yesterday. Seems like a thousand years ago.

...and I miss him so much.

Every once in a while, one friend or another will ask me to look something up on the web for them. Most people are perfectly capable of googling things for themselves. Or at least, most people are pretty certain they are. However, there are certain topics and subjects that can be a right pain to wade through unless you know 1) what are you looking ( Read more... )

As you all know, I'm more of a Scrooge McDuck type when it comes to these things more than anything else. Especially when it comes to X-Mas which I'm not celebrating anyway. But if pressed into at least acknowledging it, this is the way to go:

I give you XKCD and the one and only Tom Lehrer!


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I dearly wish the woman who grabbed me into a right bear hug as my father's coffin was sliding down had read this. Before she robbed me of what I wanted to be a moment to myself and a silent goodbye to my dad. I had an urge to push her away but I was both too stunned by the act and too stunned overall to do it. I wish I did. I really, really wish I ( Read more... )

So, the persistance of belief, long after it's been proven to be false. Again, though my focus is primarilly on religious and/or spiitual beliefs, karmas, astrology and so on, I do apply this concept and these words to every field, science included. Because persistance of this sort is present in science as well -  there were always scientists who, ( Read more... )

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This year, I have gone through two huge emotiaonal rollercosters and, as is the case with such things, neither one was pleasent. The year has been bad all around (except one notable exception - G's visit here), and two things stand out the most. In January, my father, whom I adore and who has always been one of the, if not the most ( Read more... )

Nope, I'm not talking about the one you think I'm talking about. More than half a century later, our lovely, brilliant politicians heard that history repeats itself and naturally, decided to help it happen again. Twice. So what happened?

First in Novi Sad in 2009 and now in Belgrade 2011, City Councils decided to prohibit selling alcohol (and of ( Read more... )

So, have you even heard about this thing? By what I could make out, the news made a decent bang over here but got very little screen time where it actually maters. In a nutshell:

Vuk and Verica Nastic, Serbs who live in state of California, have been going through a real agony with CPA (Child Protection Advocacy) for the past six months...
...Their ( Read more... )

One of the fringe benefits of being an English or History teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student blooper in an essay. I have pasted together the following "history" of the world from certifiably genuine student bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eight grade through college level.  Read carefully, ( Read more... )