This is an undoctored screen grab of Bill Gates adjusting his glasses the other night on The Daily Show while he was pimping Windows Vista.

Tonight was Cameron’s Cub Scout Space Derby. It’s like the Pinewood Derby, but an airplane with rubberband-driven propeller power instead. Here’s a 30 second video of another pack’s Space Derby. Like most of these things, the key is for the kid to really do the project himself, which Cameron did.
And he did […]

I’m really looking forward to the BCS NFL Championship Game next week, with the AFC top-ranked San Diego Chargers facing off against the NFC top-ranked Chicago Bears.
The Bears topped the NFC polls by an easy margin over the other NFC contenders and became the first team to earn a unanimous #1 ranking in the FoxSports.com […]

Elon is featured on the cover of this week’s Chronicle of Higher Ed in an article about the growing gender divide on college campuses and especially in college honors programs (at Elon 61% of students are female and more than 80% of the students in the honors program are female). It’s a long-time trend, […]

Colts

Originally uploaded by WozzyBear.

I predicted the Colts in the Super Bowl more than two months ago. Stand in awe of my genius (and just ignore the evidence to the contrary).

Tom Moore in the New York Times:
Every year young people enter the teaching profession hoping to emulate the teachers they’ve seen in films. (Maybe in the back of my mind I felt that I could be an inspiring teacher like Howard Hesseman or Gabe Kaplan.) But when you’re confronted with the reality of teaching not […]

A couple weeks ago I wrote a letter to the local paper responding to an article they published about the recent recommendation to increase prenatal Down Syndrome testing. I wanted people to have a more complete picture of Down Syndrome, and I hoped that maybe the paper would want to run my piece as […]