Monday, August 30, 2004
The network of networks, known in some circles as the "internet" turns 35 this week. Yay?
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Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Woody's back in the news.
"This song is copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
Posted by Daev @ 09:02 PM CST [Link]
News from back home.
Mom left a message on the AB saying that she's gone whitewater rafting, presumably down the Ocoee in Tennessee, also presumably having something to do with Frosh Orientation at Vandy, where she works. She reports:
"It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed it a whole lot more than I thought I would."
Which is great, because we boys have been trying to get her to come along for years. It's great fun, except for the part where you have to jump out of the raft and drift for a short stretch. That water is cold, man.
Mom is like (withheld)-going-on-20.
Posted by Daev @ 08:43 PM CST [Link]
I started teaching classes at the toilet factory. The company is one of the world market leaders in snappy sinks, urinals, bidets, and commodes for commercial and domestic use. Famous archtects have designed series for them.
I must admit, the gig is quite rewarding for me, because I am getting paid to teach people how to talk about peepee and poopoo.
They have a two-story showroom. I found that surreal and dreamlike. I don't know that I ever had a dream about a house full of nothing but toilets sinks and towels, but it sounds like an entry you might find in the ole dream interpretation dictionary if you get my drift. So I took pictures.
History o' plumbing and more
History of Plumbing.
Posted by Daev @ 05:23 PM CST [Link]
Monday, August 23, 2004
Here's my teaching load for next semester at dear ole TU-D. My students at the ole' Volkshochschule and the rest will just have to hang on to their hats.
Posted by Daev @ 08:11 PM CST [Link]
File under: stuff I didn't learn in highschool
On this day in 1927 Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a cobbler and a fishmonger, were executed for alledgedly murdering a paymaster and a security guard in broad daylight for a 16,000 dollar payroll seven years before.
Both men were apprehended shortly after the double murder on grounds of looking suspicious. They were both Italian imigrants. Neither had a criminal record, but both carried concealed weapons. In light of sparsely compelling evidence, many intellectuals of the time felt that the two were most likely convicted because of their political beliefs. Both men were pacifists and anarchists.
After their execution, riots broke out in Germany, France and England.
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Posted by Daev @ 09:22 AM CST [Link]
Sunday, August 22, 2004
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Thursday, August 19, 2004
The Newport Jazz Fest turns 50 this month.
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004
On my way home from the bagel shop last night, I turned right at the corner of Louisenstrasse onto Görlitzer. That corner is a gravitation point for anyone who wants to hang out but can't afford to buy drinks at a bar. For 11 pm on a monday, it was a pretty lively albeit scruffy bunch. Mostly punks yelling at their dogs for behaving like dogs, mostly hammered. Amidst kids sitting to his left and his right on the sidewalk was the scruffiest dude I ever saw passed out and forgotten on the pavement. Directly before his face was a large pool of vomit--not a step-over-sized pool of vomit, rather a walk-a-big-circle-around-sized one. He had noodles for dinner, which is probably what did him in.
Posted by Daev @ 03:58 PM CST [Link]
in case you were wondering what a "vacuum cleaner mated to a cabinet" is supposed to look like...
Posted by Daev @ 10:41 AM CST [Link]
Sunday, August 15, 2004
I resumed work on the Toast of the Century video. [more]
Posted by Daev @ 03:23 PM CST [Link]
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Be sure to go outside tonight and look up -- the Perseids are peaking, man. One should be able to see a couple of meteors every minute under the right conditions. I love meaty showers.
Posted by Daev @ 07:31 AM CST [Link]
Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Here is a little bit about cats with wings.
Posted by Daev @ 06:56 AM CST [Link]
Thursday, August 5, 2004
Where was this website all my life? Cooking by numbers lets you click on what foodstuffs you have on hand and then finds recipes for them. Joy! Deep fried baloney ala mode!
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Posted by Daev @ 04:40 PM CST [Link]
Grades posted. See post below.
Posted by Daev @ 04:16 PM CST [Link]
There you have it. I've turned in all the grades I have. So go online and check em out. [more]
Posted by Daev @ 12:30 PM CST [Link]
Tuesday, August 3, 2004
Hi, folks.
I've finished grading all of the reading comprehension tests, and several classes' listening comp tests. Should have the rest done tonight or tomorrow, so the grades should be available online by Thursday.
Posted by Daev @ 08:54 AM CST [Link]
