It says here that “the word the word ‘hack’ may be losing its negative connotations.” Duxbury High School engineering teacher Chris Connors is sponsoring a contest among his students to see who can come up with the best hack. Sounds… Read More ›
Month: October 2005
How to protect your kids: a modest proposal from Scituate
Catching up on Monday’s Boston Globe: Red-light runners in Boston and Cambridge could soon be handing over some green if the Legislature lets the cities set up cameras at intersections to nab violators… [Name Omitted] of Scituate, who drives often… Read More ›
Conspiracy theory: more "evidence"
This is a follow-up to my post of 10/5. In a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe today, one Jeff Loja of Halifax says: It seems abundantly clear that the purpose of ABC’s new show “Commander in Chief”..is… Read More ›
Principal search
We’re looking for a new principal, as our previous one moved to Georgia over the summer to become an Assistant Superintendent in the Cobb County district. This year we have an interim principal at Weston, as we search for a… Read More ›
Conspiracy theories
From the right: THE HILLARY CLINTON ’08 CAMPAIGN AIRED ITS FIRST, HOUR-LONG COMMERCIAL last night. [caps in original] Unfortunately, it came masked as a primetime network TV series… Last night, “Commander in Chief” portrayed conservatives as ruthless, power-hungry, militaristic, Bible-thumping, sexist… Read More ›
Are men malingerers?
According to the Boston Globe: Men are twice as likely as women to play hooky by calling in sick, according to a recent poll. The 11th annual Attitudes in the American Workplace poll, reported by the Marlin Co., a workplace… Read More ›
Robert Noyce and Bringing Down the House
Usually I’m in the middle of reading two books at once — typically a novel and a non-fiction work. But for some reason I’m currently reading a biography that’s definitely non-fiction and a former best-seller that purports to be non-fiction…. Read More ›
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