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  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Have I ever been functional?

    Master: What do you choose to be today?

  • Do as I say!

    I’m always saying to the kids “Don’t put things down, put them away!” but I cannot seems to abide by this myself! I have a meeting in 30 minutes and my face looks like I’ve been living in the woods for a week. I need a shave and cannot find my razor. It is dead and needs a charge. The charge takes 30 minutes and I’m supposed to leave the house in 10 minutes.

    This makes me want to explode but I’ve been working very hard at not showing anger so instead I feel like breaking down in tears.

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    This Morning

    I started my day at 4am by going back to sleep until 5am and eventually getting up at 7am. I swear that if I could force myself to do some serious exercise that I would quit sleeping so much.

    Can’t find my shaving razor. Today is all about meetings and coding.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: I have too much to do!

    Professor: So fortunate! Imagine the horror of having too little.

  • Eight But Not For Long

    I am eight and act brain-dead but am alive

    No drugs in this body but perpetually glazed over eyes

    You are not talking about Yu-gi-oh, Playstation or Teen Titans

    So your words are foreign and frightening

    How dare you imply that I might do something outside!

    I am innocent and working hard to change

    I have grown up nice but some things must be re-arranged

    How can I truly understand by which values I will stand

    If I have not experienced them firsthand?

    My brother and father have taught me to curse

    Perhaps that’s the sin I will try on first

    Already I am willing to stand my ground

    I won’t do what the kids and my brother say

    Even if they push me around

    Time to have things my own way

    You don’t have to call me by my name

    From here on out just call me Burger King!

    I am sweet and nice and try to do everything right

    Still people get mad at me and sometimes they scream

    It blackens my heart and tears my soul apart

    Why don’t they say “thank you” and teach me right?

    I know, although I’ve been told I still mess up

    Give me a second chance, a third, a twentith! I can learn!

    I live to please you. I am too young to understand

    That whether your are eight or thirty-five

    We are all fallible because regardless of age

    We are simply man.

  • Needs

    I NEED A DRY ERASE BOARD!

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: I need more cowbell!

    Teacher: You need a lobotomy!

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Today is going to be nightmarish.

    Master: Destiny birthed.

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    This Morning

    Noah did his morning man routine and was up before anyone else watching cartoons.

    I could not get out of bed quick enough to help the dog make it outside.

    I hate not waking up early enough but man doesn’t body wish it could stay in bed longer.

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: There is never enough time!

    Professor: And how long did you think about that?

  • Goodbye Google – We will miss your logos

    I took this from Kurzweil which looks like a direct quote from The Guardian but it was so exciting I had to quote it directly.


    The Guardian, July 15, 2004

    Blinkx is a new search engine that’s taking on Google. Launched today, it has been recording 6 million hits a day solely from word of mouth.

    Blinkx doesn’t only search the web but simultaneously scours news sites, blogs, emails, attachments and your own hard disk. It does all this unobtrusively in the background until you pass your cursor over icons at the top or bottom of the page, when it reveals a digest of related sites as well as material from Word, Excel or PDF files. If you are working in a word processing document, it provides the same service.

    And unlike Google, it uses artificial intelligence to rate stories, not page rankings.

    Note from the Blinkx website “blinkx is not currently available for Macintosh or Mozilla, but due to your requests, we’re working on it!”

  • Anti-Bush

    Republican dominate Knoxville, TN gets an anti-Bush mention in this article Couple in anti-Bush T-shirts were arrested at president’s speech

    …two documented incidents between September and March: one in Little Rock, Ark., and one in Knoxville, Tenn…

  • Of Grasshoppers

    Student: Why do the dead not speak?

    Master: Why do you not listen?

  • Gargoyle Cat

    You should work at this computer. The cat rolling off the monitor in deep sleep into your hands is something to experience. When she does, she feels like a rag doll with absolutely no bones in her body.

    The cat’s whole body just rose 2 inches and returned to the monitor as if it were in a Warner Brothers cartoon when the dryer buzzer went off. Then she slowly turned to me, squaked a complaint and returned to sleep.