I’ve repeatedly said that chronic substance abusers are slow learners. Now there’s a study to back up my impression: Scientific American: Drug Use Impairs Ability to Learn from Future Experiences
Happy Birthday KeiraCaitlyn!
Happy Birthday to keiracaitlyn! Marvelous quote from starrchilde: The gloom of the world is but a shadow; Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy. –Fra Giovanni
Various Geeky Bits
Sam wants a way to be notified by email when certain people update their journals. I think that would be nifty. I found one entry in lj-nifty talking about Bloglet, but 1) that requires that the journal owner subscribe and…
Miscellany
SCORPIO—EXPERIENCE—”I base my view of reality on personal experience more than popular opinion. I honor and embrace the life lessons that are ever expanding who I am.” I have a migraine. It’s the first one in a while. I hate…
Books & Pagans
Home now! We went by Border’s on the way home, as we’d promised shadowkatt a visit there. sambear, then I were shanghaied into the Town Center Border Pagans meeting by grizzlydan. I wasn’t expecting that at all, but seeing folks…
School & Book Notes
Note to self: WEAR SHORTS TOMORROW YOU IDIOT! It’s ridiculously hot in this room, and I have another class here tomorrow night. This whole building just doesn’t have good air circulation, period. I hate being cold, but at least in…
Homework
So we got some of my books today, and will order the rest at Border’s so I can use the 20% educators’ discount we get as homeschoolers. I have four chapters to read before my 6pm class, so I’d best…
More Hard Drive Woes
So yes, fixed the MBR on my hard drive. I used the disk utility that came with the drive when we bought it 3 years ago—one victory for being a packrat! 😉 I ended up having to do a low-level…
MBR Problems
Grrr. The master boot record on my hard drive is screwed up. That’s a first for me, in over a decade of working with PCs.
Problems With the Schooling System
Fingers are pointed at various aspects of the schooling system—overcrowded classrooms, lack of funding, teachers who can’t pass competency exams in their fields, etc. But these are just secondary problems. Even if they were cleared up, schools would still suck.…