By The Way...

Thursday, August 31, 2006
11:45:00 AM EDT
Hearing Neon -- Clearlake
Because I can't believe it's Thursday already. Really, where the heck did the week go?

* Because I know you love science as much as I do, two hot science links. First, for all you physics geeks, an alternative to string theory, which has an advantage to that hot theory in that it can actually be tested, whereas string theory sorta mostly can't. And for the astronomy buffs in the audience: Scientists are watching a supernova in real time. Very exciting stuff.

* As the housing and job markets cool, people are beginning to feel the pain in their "exotic" mortgages. This is why we stuck with a basic 30-year.

* A principal in an overcrowded urban high school refuses to take any more kids, saying the school is crowded enough as it is; he gets fired. Things like this make me glad I live somewhere where the entire school, K-12, is just 600 kids. Lots of individual attention.

* Will the advent of the iTunes generation be good news for musicians, possibly raising their royalties? Maybe so. I personally hope so. The only people who make less money than authors are musicians, and considering how little authors make, that's just sad.

* A man tries to live without brands. Good luck with that, in this day and age.

* See, now, this is just mean: The bottom 10 Division I-A college football teams. Here's a hint: If your team name is the Owls, you're in trouble.


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• #2 Comment from monponsett 
  8/31/06 7:57 PM | Permalink

  Remember.... where you only have 50 kids per grade, you get poor school funding... which leads to the school not being able to hire/maintain quality staff.
  
  Athena will do genetically OK in English, but you may want to start brushing up on your math teaching skills.... and you may want to lean on AOL to supply some computers for the school, because it's doubtful that the tax base will support anything better than Atari 2600-level technology.
  
  Ain't I just a thunderstorm on your parade? I'm in a good mood, too.
  
  My favorite inept athlete story was Jimmy Ard, of the 1978 Celtics. The Celts were the worst team in the NBA, but Ard still couldn't get into the game.
  
  One night, he vented.... "I'm the only guy on the worst team in the NBA who didn't get into the game.... therefore, I'm the worst professional basketball player in the world." He retired about a week later, and only God knows what became of him.
  
  He also got yelled at after a game he didn't play in once... "Sitting without intensity, I guess" said Ard.
  
  Before they Celtics cut him, someone hung a banner in the Garden... "Life would be hard without Jimmy Ard."
  
  
• #1 Comment from plittle 
  8/31/06 12:13 PM | Permalink

  Quite frankly, if the guy was stupid enough to buy a house he couldn't afford, and let an unethical lender talk him into an inadvisable mortgage that would actually be illegal in some countries, he deserves what he gets.
  -Paul
  http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/