I do have the one Chris did, but it was angrier So I'll leave it at: they are great friends now!

I'm curious, were/are you an English teacher? Aaron wrote remarkable well for a 14 year old. And Chris did a fairly decent job of "grading" Aaron's paper.

Major Maam,

listme knows how to be a good parent. Unlike the guy who shot up his daughter's laptop.

(Oops, Chris is the younger one. The oldest son is the one that graded both of their reports )

I am not patient enough to teach, haha. They just grew up with books books books. And blank notebooks and pencils. All three boys wrote like that -- and went into computer science/math/game design. Sigh.

Are you certain that your TV doesn't have a VGA port?

You can find VGA to HDMI cables and adapters at Amazon (big plus -- they're returnable). But it's not just a matter of plugging in ... there's a bit of futzing around, according to the reviews, and some combinations don't work at all.

I have a Mac Mini in the living room, mostly as my DVD player and iTunes server. (Aside ... the iTunes visualizer on a big screen with your favorite music is a very nice alternative to TV.) The Mac Mini can drive either an HDMI or a VGA connector from its DVI port, but we found using the VGA port on the TV gave a sharper picture. Which is good, because both HDMI ports are used by other devices.

A 14 year old boy who knows the word "feigns" is a wonder to behold. Something went very right there.

Yeah, that's what I'm gonna look at first.

I also use a Mac mini as a video/audio server, but I drive the TV directly from it's HDMI port, rather than the DVI port through an adapter.

I watched "The Help" yesterday. Very interesting. I had no idea that it was illegal in Mississippi to even try to make things less discriminatory.

Also, woke up in the middle of the night realizing how ridiculous it was for the white southern women to be collecting coats for poor black children in Africa.

Sometimes I am really slow.

Tait?

Just one tait!

That caught my attention as well. Only one more letter. However, Tait has done quite a few reviews for The Guardian, and none of them has excess commas. Tait also has liked a book here and there, such as The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach. I cannot imagine Orly liking anything except Orly.

I did a double take when I saw this headline. It makes sense when you think about it. I can just see some wives leaving a copy of this article lying open on the breakfast table.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherp ... =yahoofeed

Nelson Rockefeller and Don Drysdale come immediately to mind.

The RIP thread reminded me of my adventures in popmusicland when I was a tween. My friend and I were Lovin' Spoonful fans. They came to Sacto for a concert, to which we were too young to go. (my first concert was Sonny and Cher). But our lock radio station was pumping their plan to greet them at the airport at 10am.

We realized that the only way we'd be able to go was to lie abut our whereabouts and go early, so we got up at 3am and helped her brother with his paper route so he'd be finished in time to give us a ride to the airport on his bicycle. We got to the airport around 5:30, bought a Tiger Beat and some gum at the gift shop(juicy fruit, cuz we needed yellow for our wrapper chains) and settle in to wait.

To our utter delight and astonishment, the first person to come into the tiny waiting area at around 6:30 was John Sebastian, followed closely by my heartthrob, Zal Yanovsky. Their plan was to come in way early then come back with the KROY folks to be screamed at by the teeny boppers.

So, there we sat in the waiting area with the Lovin' Spoonful, just two starry eyed tweens (I think I was 12) and four rock stars, chatting about comic books and stuff. They treated us like their kid sisters. They were so sweet to us. We showed them how to fold gum wrappers to make a chain and they started one for the tour. John wanted to give us a ride home in their limo but their manager kept hissing "jail bait" as he hustled them away.

We walked home on cloud 9. I didn't wash the hand Zal kissed for at least a few days.

Even though you won't need it, I'm wishing you the best of luck anyways.

TACKLED AND HUGGED!

Love and luck to you, Fogster!

When I was at my weekly visit at my folks' house tonight my mama showed me some artwork I had done in the first or second grade...



Good luck on the test Foggy. When in doubt, answer "b".

Foogie's back!

No, no! We caught onto that years ago, just as we caught onto the fact that students do not believe that ten out of ten statements can be "true." When in doubt on a multiple-guess question, answer "all of the above" or "none of the above," but never answer "all of the above" when "none of the above" comes before. If "all of the above" is not available, turn the page upside down. More will be revealed.

Be sure to look for our niftiest new trick: there may be a question in the corner above where you are supposed to write your name. Gets them every time.

If you are taking the exam on one of those "fill-in-the-bubble" sheets for mechanical grading, watch for another new trick: the answer rows on the form are not in straight numerical order.

We have to do something to fight grade inflation.

<--Is a 'Good Luck Rooster'