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When I served as a superintendent, I fired a teacher for giving an A to every student he taught. George D. was a high school social studies teacher in Arlington (VA) when I led the district (1974-1981). In the Fall of 1976, one of our...
Graph of y = (x + 1) / x, as rendered by KmPlot Inf% When I type the first few words of any article, something incredible happens. Wanna see? Here's this article before I wrote any words: Here's this article again, after I've written the...
Daylight Music is a wonderful concept: lunchtime concerts concentrated into a two-hour time slot in churches. It started in the Union Chapel in Islington, where I played and where I met Robert Rotifer and Ian Button, actually. They were...
Market Street Jazz I Market Street Jazz II Market Street Jazz III Market Street Jazz IV What a treat to listen to a really good live jazz band.
The first Friday in July saw a group of pub enthusiasts gather on the Notts/Derby border for a trek around half-a-dozen venues in the village of Sawley.This is home to over 6,600 folks, a marina, a golf club, and an impressive nine pubs...
The second Lone Wolf gamebook, Fire on the Water, is quite heavy on setting up the series' lore, and features an expansive plot where Lone Wolf must travel halfway across the Lastlands to retrieve the fabled Sommerswerd. Perhaps because...
There's a pattern to 1987's indie chart I've appreciated experiencing slowly, and in depth, as I've written this blog. It starts with business as usual and lots of abrasive indie guitar bands topping the listings, then slowly morphs as...
After the gloomy wet days, today sprung like an unexpected flashbulb of perfectness. It was cold, but it was warm…if you know what I mean. Here is a spray of photos I took whilst walking amongst the Christmas in July markets.
I’m pretty confident that the majority of my fellow bloggers and readers – at least those few who even bother to read my posts – probably shake their heads at my music tastes and that’s okay, as each of us likes what we like at the end...
After careful analysis, I have determined that today's slide scans DO qualify as Snoozles™. But just barely! This first one is from August, 1962; we see a salty sea dog up in the rigging of the Columbia. He's whistling the Old Spice...
Quick bits When seen from a moving train, planes seem to be simply hovering in place. Weird. Pro tip: You can just ask the Amazon AI to get a free trial. I’m on my third Amazon Prime trial already. I set up Tailscale, and now I can...
This auspicious 250th Independence Day, I find myself thinking of what Om wrote in iAMerican when he became a US citizen in 2013. On a globe, America is a landmass, a country. In an immigrant’s heart it is a belief that future is almost...
Source It may well be the worst plague the region has ever seen, with scientists recording up to 8,000 mice in each hectare (2.5 acres) of land. That’s 10 times the number needed to officially declare a mouse plague. Wow, Australia is...
Ok so the commentbox works pretty well. I saw 10-15!! comments before I went to bed (thanks Brennan, Chris, Steve, JP and all the other anonymous netizens - seriously I had no idea so many people were reading this thing). But, low and...