So…I was watching the episode of Friends today where Joey becomes a minister for Chandler and Monica’s wedding. Zak has actually done it, he officiated a friend’s wedding back home a few years back. So I figured, what the hell? A few clicks later…and I’m now Reverand Brad Cauthers of the Universal Life Church. Sure, I COULD go to hell for this – but since I am now able to absolve sins, I’ll just make sure I forgive myself before I die. God bless the internet (wow, saying that actually DOES bless it now, that’s in my power too!) Go in peace, y’all.
Monthly Archives: October 2004
M.I.A.
Whoops, Halloween posting deleted…come back later!
Are Teachers Overpaid?
Okay, I’m REALLY pissed off right now. I just spent 10 minutes typing up a posting, and this bastard blog erased it on me. Regardless, I will do my best to try to reproduce it, since I love you all.
For some unknown reason, this is what, my fourth posting in 4 days? Since before this I’d only put up one every couple of weeks, this is a bit strange. Not exactly sure why it’s happening. Maybe it’s because I finally have something interesting to say. Well, I think I’m interesting.
One of my coworkers happened to be on MSN.com and came across a very interesting article. ‘Oh look, here’s an article on teachers being overpaid’. More than enough to pique my interest, so I had a look. I agree with pretty well everything in the article, although I don’t think I would give teachers a 9/10 in terms of service to society. Granted, we’re important, but a lot of what we do could probably be self-taught or done by *ahem* parents. Given the opportunity, of course. However, I think you should all decide for yourself. Read it now! Here’s the link to the MSN.com article:
I’m going to put a copy of the article up on my website I think, since I’m pretty sure that link will die at some point. Until then, I will leave you with saying that this article is for those of you who think teachers punch in at 8:00 and punch out at 3:00. Bite me, moron, wake up.
Boys of October
Well, it’s 11:30 at night and – holy crap – the curse of the Bambino is dead! I never thought I’d see the day when I WANTED the Red Sox to win, but – go Boston! Like I said at the beginning of the game: they needed either Damon or Ramirez to smarten up and have a big game, and Johnny came through far bigger than I expected. All I need now is for Houston to take game 7 and we can see Clemens pitch in Boston for the World Series. I love baseball :) G’night!
I need a Babelfish 2
A day at the movies…
So, I forgot to mention in my last post that I went to go see Hero this weekend. For the second time since I’ve been here, I’ve been screwed by foreign films. Y’know what’s difficult? Trying to watch a film in one language with subtitles in another, when neither are languages you speak. I really enjoyed the movie, but I’m sure I would’ve enjoyed it more if I could speak spanish better – as it was I was able to understand most of what was going on, but I’m sure there are subtleties that I just didn’t get. Of course, seeing as I wouldn’t have been hearing it anyway even if it was subtitled in english, I’m sure I would have missed some things regardless. One of the downsides of foreign films, I think – no matter how much you get from one, you likely miss something because the intricacies of the languages are different. Unfortunate – maybe a Babelfish would help.