It was a grasshopper

The mysterious image I put up the other day was a grasshopper. On Saturday I was looking out the living room window and saw a big insect hanging on the screen. I grabbed the camera snapped some photos and then went outside and realized what it was.

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Props to Lakehead University

Lakehead University is up in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They recently started a new on-line ad campaign, that pokes fun at both shrub and his Ivy League alma mater. The site is located at http://www.yaleshmale.com/. Here is the opening page

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What was it?

A couple of days ago I posted a photo for readers to identify. So far I’ve had no responses on that one. I’ll wait one more day for guesses then identify it.

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Interesting Podcast

I just listened to a very interesting podcast of a presentation from this years Pop!Tech Conference by Susan Blackmore on Memes called The Future of Ideas. Here is the description of the talk from the IT conversations site

Memetics is an intellectually rich but controversial field which seeks to explain how our minds and [...]

Ypsilanti School Calendar

The Ypsi School District has put up their Calendar for the 2006-7 school year. The district website only has it as a pdf file. I added all the dates from the calendar to a Google Calendar and made it publicly accessible. If you are using any calendar program that can read .ics calendar files [...]

MACs for Sale

Jules got a new MacBook last so we have two older Macs available for sale. Before I put them up on Ebay I’ll let you guys have a crack at them. The first is a PowerMac G4. Here are the specs: – 800 MHz G4 processor – 1.5 GB RAM – 80 GB Hard-Drive [...]

Identify this

Can you identify this image?

I’ll put up the answer tomorrow.

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Bill Maher is an idiot

We just watched the first 10 minutes of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO. Why does Maher get paid for doing this show. In the first part of the show, he interviews first Spike Lee and then Elvis Costello. During the course of these interviews he very clearly demonstrates how ignorant he is. [...]

School Coffee Chat

Last night I went to the first in what will hopefully be an ongoing series of coffee chats about the Ypsilanti Schools. The meeting was held at Bombadill’s and hosted by Richard Weigel. Richard came on board with the Ypsi Schools as Executive Director of Educational Services. Among other things he is responsible for [...]

Don’t Let the Door Hit You In The Ass Frank

One of the more useless and corrupt republican governors in the country saw his political career slam into a brick wall yesterday. Frank Murkowski was a US Senator when he was elected governor four years ago. He resigned his senate seat and since he was now the governor he had the privilege to appoint [...]