God, I missed being in school

So, luckily Heather was on hand to placate me–I was at the point of slamming my head into the desk and throwing things about the room by the end of this chat with a professor (note, “db”=discussion board for this online class):
Professor> any more questions?
Me > I have one more important one for you as [...]

mmmmmmm…metasarcasm

Restating Thomas Kuhn (Sort Of)

I love this quote:

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

Anything invented after you’re thirty-five [...]

TMGAIHAA

Mailing List Mail #43
Since I stopped running an IT department I’d forgotten what it’s like for things not to work for months on end. Back then, of course, it was a way of life – no one expects IT to work; the successful manager merely has to ensure an invigoratingly frequent variation of the ways [...]

Ding

Larry David–
I like how they keep saying the science isn’t in on global warming. They just don’t know. No proof. But, of course, it’s in on God. Lots of proof on that. Tons of empirical evidence. They got God’s DNA.

Heh.

Mahr or Less

From Bill Mahr’s open letter to the President, which is making it’s way around the internet:

“You’ve performed so poorly I’m surprised that you
haven’t given yourself a medal.”

Hee hee hee.

So Funny I’m Crying…

…or maybe so infuriating that I’m laughing. I should have known The Onion would trump everyone with their Katrina coverage:
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld praised the phone support, but noted that it would take months to transfer any equipment from Iraq to New Orleans, saying, “You fight a national disaster with the equipment you have.”
Much [...]