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  • 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.

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  • please stop for a hotdog

    I was in Kansas this week for the Veritas Conference- a conference of the Big 12 Conference’s Catholic Campus Centers. While I was in the great and glorious state of Kansas, a “grey” state on my hot dog map, I had to find out more about Kansas hotdogs. Also, after the last day of the…

  • pledge for peace

    Since today is the World Day of Peace, below is reprinted the Assisi Pledge for Peace sent by Pope John Paul II in 2002. We commit ourselves to proclaiming our firm conviction that violence and terrorism are incompatible with the authentic spirit of religion, and, as we condemn every recourse to violence and war in…

  • the cell works again?

    Update: I think the cell phone is fully functional again. I was contacted directly by a tech to discuss the situation further and gave me his direct phone number, which I attempted and in fact rang directly to his desk, so if the problem continued, I could go directly past customer service.

  • young people annoy you?

    From a newsbrief in the December 12, 2005 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, the journal of the American Chemical Society, there is now a device that is designed to “shoo away” teenagers. The device, invented by Howard Stapleton, emits a high-frequency pulsing sound that almost everyone under 20 and virtually no one over 30…

  • sts 331 wireless project

    For class, I was asked to have my wireless proposal and report online. They may be accessed here. [This entry is post-dated so it is at the top of the page whenever my instructor visits the site.]

  • now they work together

    Six Apart announced that Movable Type now is installed on Yahoo! Small Business Hosting solutions. After Cyberstation of Wichita Falls, which I do not suggest anyone purchase a hosting solution from them, Yahoo! Small Business was the second host of brandonkraft.com. It was during the Yahoo! days that I discovered Movable Type for my use…