... Is the stupid parents. Parents who never really learned how math works because they are the product of a school system populated by mathphobic teachers ( Read more... )

This isn't a small idea. It's big. It doesn't fit in a sentence or even a paragraph. Some people might find it offensive because I am questioning things they consider part of their identity. I mean NONE of this personally. If you don't feel up to it, please skip on. There are better presentations of most of the topics I touch on out on the web, ( Read more... )

It's a week to go and... mostly I've had enough already. I have some old complaints about Christmas and perhaps a more structured airing of them is warranted ( Read more... )

A lot of folks were annoyed with him for being unable to get his legislative agenda through the congress, or over misguided opinions on things that were actually good (saving the US auto industry, for instance ( Read more... )

Ran across a post on one of the communities and it brought this into the front of my mind: Sturgeon's Law applies to Urban Fantasy and it's fans don't seem to notice. Or maybe they are looking for something else in it besides an interesting story. Let's face it folks... the underground war between vampires and werewolves is BORING. The genre has ( Read more... )

It occurred to me last night that Apple was the purveyor of the world's best mango cheesecake. Bar none. Sure it's pricey but there is no beating Captain Job's Insanely Great Mango Cheesecake. You can ask anyone who's ever tried it, it's the best damned mango cheesecake in the whole freakin' universe! Creamy, tangy, sweet with the perfect buttery ( Read more... )

Whatever (and if) you may have thought about Sun Microsystems, I never met anyone who hated them. They were always a hardware company, making microcomputer servers that drove the fledgling Net from its humble beginnings. The best thing about them, historically, is that they would develop software to do basic tasks... manage large numbers of ( Read more... )

Anyone else had to deal with the stupid Best Buy pop-up ad on this site? Not only does it lock you out of your browser for several seconds, it does the one thing I consider an unforgivable sin on a website: it plays sound without me explicitly telling it to. I have only two words for whoever here at LJ allowed that ad: FUCK YOU. Banner ads? Sure, I ( Read more... )

French cheese isn't something I approach without fear. Many of them suffer from one or both of the cheese flavors I can't stand. The classic 'bleu' cheese and it's relatives taste moldy... like green fuzzy bread with butter on it. The other is the flavor in the soft cheeses like brie or neufchatel. It takes like milk a few days too old to drink. I ( Read more... )

Some years ago, a group of people decided to ruin a perfectly good mountain as a monument to great American presidents. Regardless of the party affiliation, they all share one core political outlook: liberalism. Taking them in order...

• George Washington. This man led an open armed revolt against a legitimate and internationally recognized government ( Read more... )