I love the scary message from the State.
“In the guidance released Tuesday evening, the education agency said students, teachers or school districts participating in ‘inappropriate political activism’ could face the following consequences: […] Students being marked absent and districts losing state funding.” (source)
My brothers and sisters, big scary liberal Austin ISD done already marked kids as an unexcused absence if they walked out.
“There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.” An interesting point made by Tufte is that “comparisons must be enforced within the scope of the eyespan”. For those readers who do not have this book, there are four separate maps of China with red dots of varying sizes indicating the number of poets…
I’m in my fourth year at The University. I’ve been enrolled in over many more classes than required for my degree. I could graduate this summer, if it wasn’t for one particular subject which is neither my major or my minor. I’m simply tired of it. I work 30 hours a week now doing something…
Well, fantastic. I had good news and I had bad news. The good news- the Brandon Kraft family of websites is popular. Between this site, The Brandon Kraft Foundation, my personal portal, the Save Players! effort and an unannounced Catholic Thinker project, there was enough activity to lead to an abnormal and unacceptable level of…
I broke up a fortune cookie some point during the last week that held the proverb “You’ll accomplish more later if you take some time for yourself.” How do you decide which things you let go? Vanessa and I had similar discussions this week and through all of that, I’m still left with the question,…
XuQa.com is an example of poor information design. This website is a cheap-looking knock off of the ever-popular Facebook. The site’s navigation is unclear and uses various terms that need definition. What’s this “tickle” and then this “kiss” thing? You can be a friend and a fan? Until recently, you could only browse up through…
For those keeping track of my various and many problems with Cingular, I heard back from them today. They asked if I am still experiencing the problem, of which currently I am not. Apparently, field techs report that problems in the field have been fixed. We’ll see how long it lasts this time. For the…
