Well, school has started again. I’ve got two online classes this semester in addition to my “on campus” classes. One of the things I find truly fascinating about the online class experience is that the instructors insist on trying to develop something akin to a sense of community for each class. Every semester, every class, [...]
Also tagged Personal, wordsmithingI’ve been plugging along all semester in an online introductory IT class. Now, it hasn’t been worthless; I’ve been exposed to quite a bit of stuff I didn’t know or was only vaguely familiar with, but the whole experience has been rather frustrating. Feedback from the instructor has been minimal. Out of assignments for 23 [...]
Also tagged free speech, whining, wtf?will be about half of what Obama blew on Green Energy in 2009. And the taxpayers won’t pay for all of the Sandy damage, unlike the 34 failed or failing Green Energy companies.
Also tagged abuse of power, bankruptcy, Economics, ethics, green, Nanny State, Obama, PoliticsI’ve been busy lately trying to keep up with school, work, family stuff and other assorted issues. Being, as the phrase goes, “unencumbered by the confines of regular employment” has its advantages. I usually only work on weekends, I’ve gotten enough installation jobs in the last month to pay the rent and some of the [...]
Also tagged Computers, envy, wtf?Exactly a year ago I wrote a post entitled “Onward” in which I discussed paying the hosting and domain registration bill for Ratlands. When I sat down to write today I was intent on doing the same thing and actually had “Onward” as the post title. Strange how my head is in pretty much the [...]
Also tagged blogspeak, Personal, whiningBoth from an email from The Daily Caller (sorry, no direct link to the email) on what they described as “Obama’s very bold, totally non-binding flip-flop”: As everyone knows by now, President Barack Obama has courageously re-committed to a position he held 16 years ago now that polls show most Americans are also OK with [...]
Also tagged humor, lie to me, Obama, PoliticsSOPA. Crap. ‘Nuff said. Except it isn’t. Massive outrage gets a temporary victory, but this will be back in another form as soon as the furor dies down a bit. Meanwhile, Larry Correia has a great rant about SOPA and all the other stuff we’ve let happen. Go read it. It’s worth it to get [...]
Also tagged abuse of power, free speech, lie to me, Nanny State, Politics, quotes, whiningThe other night I was watching TV and saw one of those montage things the movie channels sometimes do. It had some cool clips from some movies a really catchy tune, so I googled it and found this. Rat Jr. is always getting me to watch clips of various obscure bands on YouTube, so I [...]
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