every fantasy world has its great fantasy weapon.
the wheel of time has callandor, a flawed sa angreal that only a man can wield. the image of rand sword-fighting the dark one in the sky fascinates me.
middle earth has the one ring. the idea of the rings of power, all of them, ruled by […]
i fired off another complaint to doctor bigwig about bad instructor. last monday, the 21st, bad instructor said she’d be caught up by wednesday; wednesday has come and gone with no end to her tardiness in sight. so we’ll see. i’m going on with the big project that’s worth a quarter of […]
i live in dumbfuckistan. in case you didn’t know, that’s the big “state” at the bottom of the map where shrub comes from.
the dumbfuckistan legislature meets for 140 days every two years in a flurry of special-interst pork barreling, partisan supidity (remember two years ago when the democrats shut down the session not once […]
texas school districts are exciting.
the wilmer hutchins isd is being shut down and taken over by the state education agency.
you can read the full story here.
the reason for the takeover seems to be that at least 22 employees cheated on state elementary achievement exams.
and the superintendant has been indicted for obstruction, for destroying documents he […]
thanks to kyle for permission to use some of his photography. the photographs are copyright 2005 kyle hearn, all rights reserved. and they’re watermarked so don’t bother trying to rip them off.
Header photo location:
N37 28.563 W112 14.438
10-February 2005 10:49:05
9116 feet
wordpress 1.5 is actually pretty nice. most importantly to me, it handles themes. that means i can skin the site pretty easily. with some tweaking i can even make it randomly choose a skin. i don’t plan on doing that.
but the other thing themes allow me to do is customize and […]
i’m upgrading to wordpress 1.5. things will look terrible for a while. thanks for your patience.
i have lots of drive space laying around, and i’m reasonably technically competent with things automated. so once a week i mirror xa-speakers. so if by some chance you’d like a copy of some of their stuff without having to download from them, let me know. i can fish out stuff pretty […]
