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  • Deferred Success

    Originally seen over on LJ:

    Call to turn exam failure into a qualified success
    By Alexandra Blair, Education Correspondent

    A RETIRED primary school teacher has called for the word “failure” to be banned from the classroom and replaced with “deferred success”.

    Liz Beattie, who taught for 37 years, said that children’s aspirations to learn are crushed as soon as they are deemed failures and that they should be praised instead.

    The motion to remove the word “fail” from the educational vocabulary will be put formally to members of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) at the union’s annual conference in Buxton, Derbyshire, at the end of the month. [The Times]

    Bah. I think this school teacher is an idiot. While I don’t think you should necessarily yell “MY GOD YOU SUCK” to a student in the middle of class, getting rid of the concept of failure is a horrible idea. And just how are you supposed to praise the kid who got a zero on a test? Good job Billy! You got the lowest grade in the class, a new record! Keep up the good work!

    Now Playing: D-tecnolife from the album “D-tecnolife Single” by UVERworld

  • How to Spot a Terrorist

    What to Look For
    LJ user terrajen points to today’s New York City edition of the Metro describing how to recognize terrorists.

    So if you see someone sweating a lot during the summer and avoiding eye contact in Manhattan call the cops!

  • AOL on Crack

    Adrants has links to two videos from AOL promoting their new service AIM mail.

    To promote its new AIM Mail, AOL has a couple of strange online videos, created by ATTIK. One has a receptionist drifting into a daydream which consists of superhero midgets…oops…dwarfs…oops…little people giving her a tickle attack. The other has a pair of sushi falling in love only to have one killed by getting eaten. Both end with @aim addresses and no other form of linkage.

    Once at the AIM Mail site, there are blogs that promote the videos. The videos can be viewed HERE and HERE. [Adrants]

  • Some Fun For The Afternoon

    No real point here, just some links I found interesting today.

    Now I’m off to try updating this blog to MT 3.2.

  • Boston, Doctors, and Good Food

    I’m back in CT after two days of doctor appointments in Boston. They wanted to check out my heart, since my heart rate had been a bit irregular right after my surgery. The good news is that my heart is doing just fine.

    Then last night we went to Evoo, one of my favorite restaurants. I’d wanted my mom to go for a while, as I thought she’d really like it. And she did. I had the Chinese Box, my favorite thing on the menu, and as always it was quite yummy.

    Then today was my regular appointment at the transplant clinic. Everything looks to be doing okay. And the best news is they gave me the okay to drive. So I believe I’ll be taking a short drive tomorrow :). So happy!

  • Blizzard and Coke

    Joystiq reports an ad by Blizzard and Coke for World of Warcraft and Coke. It’s pretty nifty. It would be cool if we got some ads like that.

  • NASA Violates Spiritual Rights

    Those damn people at NASA! How dare they? 🙂

    Russian astrologer sues NASA over comet experiment

    MOSCOW (AFP) – A Russian astrologer has taken legal action against NASA for compensation, claiming that the US space agency’s bombardment of the Tempel 1 comet will upset her horoscope and violates her spiritual rights.

    The experiment, in which NASA fired a projectile the size of a fridge at the comet Monday, was an attack on “the holy of holies,” Marina Bai’s law suit claims, according to Russian press reports. Her suit, filed at a Moscow court, claims violation of her “life and spiritual values.” [Yahoo! News]

  • Happy 4th!

    Happy 4th of July everyone. I haven’t been posting much because I just haven’t felt like I’ve had much to say. But the last day or two I’ve been feeling a little bit more talkative and it finally reached critical mass.

    My sister and nephew are here visiting for the week, which is nice. My nephew is all about playing Pokemon on his GBA. He keeps wanting to trade with me (Yes, I have it too.) The problem is I haven’t played in months and have no idea how I got different Pokemon. Though he’s since educated me on how to evolve all kinds of various ones (whether I wanted to know or not). He’s a good kid, needs to listen to his mom more, but a good kid.

    I also missed my goal of walking around the block. Mostly because the weather was pretty oppressive last week, not the best conditions for pushing myself some. Instead I walked all the way down to the CVS on Friday, which is considerably longer than going around the block.

    I’ve also been poking around at dating sites online. I’m kind of curious to hear what sites people like. I think I had a profile on match.com years and years ago, but it’s probably long gone. Anyone have any favorites?

  • Deep Throat Steps Forward

    MSNBC has an article up reporting the identity of the infamous Deep Throat.

    >Ex-FBI official says he’s ‘Deep Throat’

    Magazine quotes him as saying he was ‘doing his duty’

    Updated: 12:01 p.m. ET May 31, 2005

    W. Mark Felt, who retired from the FBI after rising to its second most senior position, has identified himself as the “Deep Throat” source quoted by The Washington Post to break the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon’s resignation, Vanity Fair magazine said Tuesday.

    “I’m the guy they used to call Deep Throat,” he told John D. O’Connor, the author of Vanity Fair’s exclusive that appears in its July issue. [MSNBC]

    No word yet from Woodward and Bernstein, who have pledged not to reveal the identity until the person has died.

  • Thank God for Bluetooth

    I’m in the car right now. Dad’s driving and we’re speeding up 84 to Boston, and I’m bored. At this point I’m just ready for this to all be over and done with. So I figured I’d see if I could get my computer set up to use my cell phone for connectivity and it’s working just dandy. Pretty damn slick.

    So the next step in all of this lung stuff is to get to the ER at Brigham & Women’s Hospital (where I’ll be having the surgery and recovering). Once there they’ll take some blood, stick an IV in me and we wait for the lung to be ready. Beyond that we’ll see. My guess is I’ll be fully offline for at least the first few days. Though I’m sure they’ll have me up and shuffling along at least a little even by tomorrow.

    As far as visitors I don’t think I get to have any right at first. My immune system will be fairly suppressed at first and they want to eliminate any chance of infection. Check back here for more details.

    I still can’t believe it has only been a week since I was last called. And they called during the day! That was the last thing I expected!