I have been reading this article for school and couldn't make any sense of it. Here's a sample sentence: If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to “normalize” formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality.
Ten pages of that. I looked him up online and it turns out he was awarded the Bad Writing Award by some philosophy and literature journal. Then I didn't feel so bad.
He's in Liam's class. Incredible athlete. Not some freakish man-child who is way more developed than his classmates. Just a super strong, super fast, super smart kid.
At Liam's graduation yesterday O'Hara was recognized for getting straight A's all through 5th & 6th grade.
In football he plays running back and middle linebacker. Always the fastest and strongest kid on the field.
The kid is slightly taller than most but not huge. Liam reports his max bench is 220. Kid is probably 5'4" and weighs maybe 140.
Football parents speculate he will transfer to a local football powerhouse for high school. St. Ignatius.
If I were some rabid, creepy football fan I would send tape of this kid to Notre Dame. I'm sure some nut already has.
I can't figure out what that sentence is even about, in even the most general way. It's like a computer-generated sentence of random nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. that have no relationships to each other.
We just watched the new "True Grit" movie. As I was watching it, I thought to myself, "Why isn't there more buzz about this movie. It's really well done." Not my exact thoughts but close.
Anyway, the snappy dialogue and the smartly contrived characters make it a really good movie.
It wasn't until I read the credits that I realized it was a Coen brothers movie. Kind of explains why I felt it was good. I like nearly all thier movies.
If I had to say one bad thing about it, that would be the abrupt ending. The Coen brothers seem to, at times, get a little sloppy with thier endings. This was the case here.
Finn had a nice little birthday. We had grilled chicken and tots and fruit, finished off with a store -bought Thomas cake with inch thick frosting. Apparently one of the cars in the new Cars movie is named Finn McMissile, so when i saw it at target I HAD to buy that for him.
I still haven't seen the new true grit. So many movies so little time.
After weeks of telling people that Council Bluffs proper has nothing to worry about, the city has released evacuation plans for all areas of the west end of town. That doesn't mean they're evacuating, but just what streets to use if they do, what rules will be in effect, shelter locations, warning siren sounds for if the power is about to be shut off, etc. In our basement offices we put the computer towers up on our desks and emptied the lower shelves and drawers. The College World Series starts Friday and sewers are backing up across the street right now. Worst of all, the Surfside has closed, probably for the rest of the summer.
You know what I just read? 28,500 students were paddled in school in 2008 in the state of Georgia. And african americans and students with disabilities were twice as likely to be paddled.
I'm kind of amazed by this statistic. Don't you think, if you allowed hitting at all, it would be the rarest of events?
Well, let's see. If you divide 28,500 students by 180 school days, that gives you 15.83 students who get paddled per day all across the state. Let's assume there are 400 schools in the state and divide 15.83 students by 400 and you come up with .039 students paddled per day in each school. If you round .039 to .033 that means one student in each school gets paddled every three days. Knowing how naughty school kids can be, I agree with the anonymous suthor who wrote about conditions in the state of Georgia. I too am amazed and I agree that more kids should be paddled to keep them in line and to promote a better learning environment for the kids who behave themselves. Dad
Speaking of schoolng....Liam just graduated from 6th grade. They had a full ceromony in the school gymasium. As the kids were coming up to get their diplomas thier name would be called out. The kid would walk across the stage to get their diplomas and any honors.
Sad part was, in this day and age of "my child is special" and "everyone's a winner!" about just over half the class was recognized for one of two special Presidential Awards.
They either got the President's Award For Academic Excellance or the President's Award for Academic Achievement.
These awards included a mimiograhped signature from President Obama.
What was sad is the the minority of kids who didn't get one of these awards. They had to cross the stage with only thier name being called out. Meaning they obviously were an average student or less. Like I said about 40% of the students had to endure this.
So, instead of a small percentage of kids getting recognized for going above and beyond (as it was in my day) what is happening is kids who are just average (what's wrong with average?) are being spotlighted as less than good.
Stupid Obama.
Liam got an Academic Achievemnt Award. I'm sure he's headed for a full ride at Harvard.
I couldn't agree more. A kid's tender bruised feelings resulting from a 6th grade graduation ceremony in a Cleveland suburb is entirely Obama's fault. What a jerk. There's no way I'm voting for him no matter what the economy does.
Tom, that's the schools fault. I know our school just hands those types of things out with the report card. And thank god for that. Who wants to sit through hours of recognition/graduation ceremonies?
Especially 6th grade! Then do they have one at the end of junior high with awards for not assaulting a teacher, or for showing up 80% of the time?
I am packing up my office - throwing away lots of stuff that should have gone years ago, there's an upside to everything - to be stored in a trailer in case of a levee breach and deciding what I can't live without that will fit in a 2-drawer file cabinet for the next several months. If the parish actually goes under water we will move up to St. Albert's School and have masses in the gym.
So, Weiner's in rehab? How does that work??? Make him wear a "collar" around his waist like dogs wear around their neck to prevent licking? NO PICTURES DOWN THERE...repeat after me... really ridiculous.
Thanks for the birthday wishes! Sorry I'm belatedly responding. For my birthday, I got to go to my public policy class! But Joe and I did go out to a nice dinner (no corkage fee at a downtown French restaurant) and he bought me a great outfit and pegboard for my craft supplies! I'm a lucky girl and can tell this will be a good year. — Brianne
Don't you think a high school should be sure the big reunions happen? There is still no date for my 25th BGHS reunion. And, now I have to buy a ticket for a Wilkes wedding in July. I've been holding off hoping a reunion date would appear but there is nothing and I can't wait any longer. I emailed asking if they had heard anything, and didn't get a reply.
We are bleeding money. Van needed $600 in work. That warranty expired in April. Just replaced the back fence that blew down last fall. And we had a $300 plumbing problem make itself known last night. And we still have to pay someone to repair the hole in the wall left by the plumber. Our home warranty which would have covered most of the plumbing costs expired in may and we chose to cancel. Grrrrrrrr. I'm never gonna get new counter tops, oh well. At least Finn has finally cracked the growth chart at his two year check up with a hefty 10% in weight.
I'm thinking I should go to plumbing school. The guy was here for an hour. That's pretty good money. But plumbers have to crawl into lots of creepy spaces.
Mary is singing the responsorial psalm in church this Sunday.
At the end of the school year, she had the lead in the 3rd grade musical. We thought that meant 4 lines spoken and a special costume. Well, in addition to the 4 lines, she had 4 solos - one of them a song sung in tamdum with the rest of the students, but with a different melody and different words. We didn't have our recorder with us because we didn't know it would be such a big deal.
Not recording mass, though.
A friend's farm is completely submerged north of Omaha now. She was in a planned flood zone. They were told to get out so that they could break the levy. They may not get back on until December.
lisa
Oh - happy birthday wishes to all my great relatives.
Looks like Swarbrick pretty much confirmed the (future) existence of a Notre Dame Network in this South Bend Tribune article. It's unclear what it will actually look like, but it could be a good thing for the fans, not that there has ever been a problem catching an Irish game on television, but for the fans of women's soccer and stuff.
No water coming down our street yet, but people are moving their stuff out everywhere around us. I feel fortunate and greatful that we have somewhere to go (my parents') if something does happen. The constant worry and not knowing what to do is giving me aches though. I cleaned out the basement today, my bosses gave me 4 paid hours off to help out a little and offered storage space at their houses too. Very nice people! I took 3 loads to the Salvation Army today, mostly clothes. I lined up all the boxes and other stuff I want out of the basement for Brian to carry out when he gets home. His Brother brought over a trailor for us to borrow. Most of our stuff will go to Patty's basement. I don't know when we"ll think about moving the upstairs stuff. That's what's happening here. Lavelles, are you going to move stuff out of your storage unit?
The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have therefore raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved."
Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even "A Bit Cross." The English have not been "A Bit Cross" since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from "Tiresome" to "A Bloody Nuisance." The last time the British issued a "Bloody Nuisance" warning level was in 1588, when threatened by the Spanish Armada.
The Scots have raised their threat level from "Pissed Off" to "Let's get the Bastards." They don't have any other levels. This is the reason they have been used on the front line of the British army for the last 300 years.
The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from "Run" to "Hide." The only two higher levels in France are "Collaborate" and "Surrender." The rise was precipitated by a recent fire that destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the country's military capability.
Italy has increased the alert level from "Shout Loudly and Excitedly" to "Elaborate Military Posturing." Two more levels remain: "Ineffective Combat Operations" and "Change Sides."
The Germans have increased their alert state from "Disdainful Arrogance" to "Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs." They also have two higher levels: "Invade a Neighbor" and "Lose."
Belgians, on the other hand, are all on holiday as usual; the only threat they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels .
The Spanish are all excited to see their new submarines ready to deploy. These beautifully designed subs have glass bottoms so the new Spanish navy can get a really good look at the old Spanish navy.
Australia, meanwhile, has raised its security level from "No worries" to "She'll be alright, Mate." Three more escalation levels remain: "Crikey!", "I think we'll need to cancel the barbie this weekend", and "The barbie is cancelled."
I've copied and pasted a couple of paragraghs from an email between myself and some of my coworkers. Some facts about our restaurant operations:
We serve over 4.7 million buffets per year. Foodservice serves over 90,000 meals per day. Put another way, "in the time it takes our customer to drive a mile, we have served 63 meals"
Coffee: 315,000 pounds per year....equates to over 28,000,000 cups served...OR "We pour a cup of coffee every 1.1 seconds!" Fries: 1.15 Million pounds per year....approximately 3.45 million potatoes! (according to a quick Google search 3 potatoes equal a pound of fries. Not sure on the accuracy.) Bacon: 960,000 pounds of bacon per year. It takes 64,000 Pork Bellies to make that much...equates to 15,360,000 slices
It was just a discussion that we were having at the request of our marketing department. They want some impressive stats to use in some sort of material.
There's more....we have several fast food brands we operate. One of them specializes in fried chicken. I'm leaving the brand name off because I'm not sure it's information I should make public (coporate paranoia, man!)
Brand X Fact:
An average "Brand X" purchases and sells a ton of chicken every week...literally!
That's right, an average "Brand X" purchases 55 cases of chicken per week, and each case has 35-40 pounds of chicken, so that's about 2000 pounds (one ton) per week per location.
That equates to nearly five million pounds, or nearly 2500 tons, of chicken per year at all of our Brand X's combined.
I would like to thank everyone who contributed to my 50th birthday present. (just got it last week) Mely and I watched a PBS show about Route 66 a few years back and have wanted to drive it eve since.
51 comments:
Happy Birthday, Danny! Have a great day.
Have a great day, Danny!
Have a swell birthday Brianne!
Party hardy Finn!
P
Happy Birthday to all of you! I hope you are doing something fun.
Monica
I have been reading this article for school and couldn't make any sense of it.
Here's a sample sentence: If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to “normalize” formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality.
Ten pages of that. I looked him up online and it turns out he was awarded the Bad Writing Award by some philosophy and literature journal. Then I didn't feel so bad.
P
And happy birthdays to Dan and Brianne! Hope you guys have fun.
Happy Birthday All.
Notre Dame fans, remember the name Mitch O'Hara.
He's in Liam's class. Incredible athlete. Not some freakish man-child who is way more developed than his classmates. Just a super strong, super fast, super smart kid.
At Liam's graduation yesterday O'Hara was recognized for getting straight A's all through 5th & 6th grade.
In football he plays running back and middle linebacker. Always the fastest and strongest kid on the field.
The kid is slightly taller than most but not huge. Liam reports his max bench is 220. Kid is probably 5'4" and weighs maybe 140.
Football parents speculate he will transfer to a local football powerhouse for high school. St. Ignatius.
If I were some rabid, creepy football fan I would send tape of this kid to Notre Dame. I'm sure some nut already has.
Tom
Happy happy birthday, Brianne!
I can't figure out what that sentence is even about, in even the most general way. It's like a computer-generated sentence of random nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. that have no relationships to each other.
Cathy, it's about a kid named O'Hara...read it again.
Tom, you should give ND the heads up...Ohio grows footbal players!
Happy Birthdat Danny!!!
Happy Birthday Brianne!!!
Happy Birthday Finn!!!
Party party!!!
Happy Birthdays to the birthday boys and girl! What did you all do to celebrate?
Happy Birthday, Finn! Go crazy on that cake!
Have you all been to google.com today? In a tribute to Les Paul you can play the google icon with your cursor.
p
Oh, it's very cool, thanks Pat...strumming away....
OK...it's addicting...Mike and I are playing dueling guitars on our computers!
You can record yourself and play it back. I just played a birthday song for the birthday celebrants.
P
This preseason ranking
http://www.athlonsports.com/
has ND ranked 6th in the nation. Of the 120 Division I teams, guess who's ranked 120th?
FAU. (my school)
P
We just watched the new "True Grit" movie. As I was watching it, I thought to myself, "Why isn't there more buzz about this movie. It's really well done." Not my exact thoughts but close.
Anyway, the snappy dialogue and the smartly contrived characters make it a really good movie.
It wasn't until I read the credits that I realized it was a Coen brothers movie. Kind of explains why I felt it was good. I like nearly all thier movies.
If I had to say one bad thing about it, that would be the abrupt ending. The Coen brothers seem to, at times, get a little sloppy with thier endings. This was the case here.
Tom
Finn had a nice little birthday. We had grilled chicken and tots and fruit, finished off with a store -bought Thomas cake with inch thick frosting. Apparently one of the cars in the new Cars movie is named Finn McMissile, so when i saw it at target I HAD to buy that for him.
I still haven't seen the new true grit. So many movies so little time.
After weeks of telling people that Council Bluffs proper has nothing to worry about, the city has released evacuation plans for all areas of the west end of town. That doesn't mean they're evacuating, but just what streets to use if they do, what rules will be in effect, shelter locations, warning siren sounds for if the power is about to be shut off, etc. In our basement offices we put the computer towers up on our desks and emptied the lower shelves and drawers. The College World Series starts Friday and sewers are backing up across the street right now. Worst of all, the Surfside has closed, probably for the rest of the summer.
You know what I just read? 28,500 students were paddled in school in 2008 in the state of Georgia. And african americans and students with disabilities were twice as likely to be paddled.
I'm kind of amazed by this statistic. Don't you think, if you allowed hitting at all, it would be the rarest of events?
Well, let's see. If you divide 28,500 students by 180 school days, that gives you 15.83 students who get paddled per day all across the state. Let's assume there are 400 schools in the state and divide 15.83 students by 400 and you come up with .039 students paddled per day in each school. If you round .039 to .033 that means one student in each school gets paddled every three days. Knowing how naughty school kids can be, I agree with the anonymous suthor who wrote about conditions in the state of Georgia. I too am amazed and I agree that more kids should be paddled to keep them in line and to promote a better learning environment for the kids who behave themselves. Dad
I think the parents of the kids getting the paddle should get the same treatment as well.
Tom
I think the house of representatives should have paddling and we'll start with Weiner.
P
I think Cathy may need a paddle!
Speaking of schoolng....Liam just graduated from 6th grade. They had a full ceromony in the school gymasium. As the kids were coming up to get their diplomas thier name would be called out. The kid would walk across the stage to get their diplomas and any honors.
Sad part was, in this day and age of "my child is special" and "everyone's a winner!" about just over half the class was recognized for one of two special Presidential Awards.
They either got the President's Award For Academic Excellance or the President's Award for Academic Achievement.
These awards included a mimiograhped signature from President Obama.
What was sad is the the minority of kids who didn't get one of these awards. They had to cross the stage with only thier name being called out. Meaning they obviously were an average student or less. Like I said about 40% of the students had to endure this.
So, instead of a small percentage of kids getting recognized for going above and beyond (as it was in my day) what is happening is kids who are just average (what's wrong with average?) are being spotlighted as less than good.
Stupid Obama.
Liam got an Academic Achievemnt Award. I'm sure he's headed for a full ride at Harvard.
Tom
I couldn't agree more. A kid's tender bruised feelings resulting from a 6th grade graduation ceremony in a Cleveland suburb is entirely Obama's fault. What a jerk. There's no way I'm voting for him no matter what the economy does.
Tom, that's the schools fault. I know our school just hands those types of things out with the report card. And thank god for that. Who wants to sit through hours of recognition/graduation ceremonies?
MOnica
Especially 6th grade! Then do they have one at the end of junior high with awards for not assaulting a teacher, or for showing up 80% of the time?
I am packing up my office - throwing away lots of stuff that should have gone years ago, there's an upside to everything - to be stored in a trailer in case of a levee breach and deciding what I can't live without that will fit in a 2-drawer file cabinet for the next several months. If the parish actually goes under water we will move up to St. Albert's School and have masses in the gym.
I read that the first floor of the casino parking garage is under water, andnone entire parking lot...casino manager was stating it's no big deal...
So, Weiner's in rehab? How does that work???
Make him wear a "collar" around his waist like dogs wear around their neck to prevent licking?
NO PICTURES DOWN THERE...repeat after me...
really ridiculous.
Umm. I was being joking when I said "stupid Obama"
Tom
Thanks for the birthday wishes! Sorry I'm belatedly responding. For my birthday, I got to go to my public policy class! But Joe and I did go out to a nice dinner (no corkage fee at a downtown French restaurant) and he bought me a great outfit and pegboard for my craft supplies! I'm a lucky girl and can tell this will be a good year. — Brianne
Have a Happy Bloomsday everybody!
I didn't seem like you were joking about Obama.
Don't you think a high school should be sure the big reunions happen? There is still no date for my 25th BGHS reunion. And, now I have to buy a ticket for a Wilkes wedding in July. I've been holding off hoping a reunion date would appear but there is nothing and I can't wait any longer. I emailed asking if they had heard anything, and didn't get a reply.
p
You never get a reply from Garrigan.
Monica
We are bleeding money. Van needed $600 in work. That warranty expired in April. Just replaced the back fence that blew down last fall. And we had a $300 plumbing problem make itself known last night. And we still have to pay someone to repair the hole in the wall left by the plumber. Our home warranty which would have covered most of the plumbing costs expired in may and we chose to cancel. Grrrrrrrr. I'm never gonna get new counter tops, oh well. At least Finn has finally cracked the growth chart at his two year check up with a hefty 10% in weight.
I'm thinking I should go to plumbing school. The guy was here for an hour. That's pretty good money. But plumbers have to crawl into lots of creepy spaces.
Mary is singing the responsorial psalm in church this Sunday.
At the end of the school year, she had the lead in the 3rd grade musical. We thought that meant 4 lines spoken and a special costume. Well, in addition to the 4 lines, she had 4 solos - one of them a song sung in tamdum with the rest of the students, but with a different melody and different words. We didn't have our recorder with us because we didn't know it would be such a big deal.
Not recording mass, though.
A friend's farm is completely submerged north of Omaha now. She was in a planned flood zone. They were told to get out so that they could break the levy. They may not get back on until December.
lisa
Oh - happy birthday wishes to all my great relatives.
Congrats to Mary!!
Damn flood!
Ok now I feel bad for complaining. At least our place isn't flooded. Molly, how are you guys doing.
I wish I could bleed money. I would just cut myself and get $5.
Looks like Swarbrick pretty much confirmed the (future) existence of a Notre Dame Network in this South Bend Tribune article. It's unclear what it will actually look like, but it could be a good thing for the fans, not that there has ever been a problem catching an Irish game on television, but for the fans of women's soccer and stuff.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/sports/collegesports/notredame/sbt-notre-dame-football-athletic-director-jack-swarbrick-qanda-part-i-20110609,0,6572266.story
sayitain'tso! Does that mean no more NBC games?
No water coming down our street yet, but people are moving their stuff out everywhere around us. I feel fortunate and greatful that we have somewhere to go (my parents') if something does happen. The constant worry and not knowing what to do is giving me aches though. I cleaned out the basement today, my bosses gave me 4 paid hours off to help out a little and offered storage space at their houses too. Very nice people! I took 3 loads to the Salvation Army today, mostly clothes. I lined up all the boxes and other stuff I want out of the basement for Brian to carry out when he gets home. His Brother brought over a trailor for us to borrow. Most of our stuff will go to Patty's basement. I don't know when we"ll think about moving the upstairs stuff. That's what's happening here. Lavelles, are you going to move stuff out of your storage unit?
Here is a link to a slideshow of flood pics:
http://www.ketv.com/missouri-river-flooding-extended-coverage/28263459/slideshow.html
A funny email I was forwared the other day:
The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats
and have therefore raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved."
Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or
even "A Bit Cross." The English have not been "A Bit Cross" since the
blitz in 1940 when tea supplies nearly ran out. Terrorists have been
re-categorized from "Tiresome" to "A Bloody Nuisance." The last time the
British issued a "Bloody Nuisance" warning level was in 1588, when
threatened by the Spanish Armada.
The Scots have raised their threat level from "Pissed Off" to "Let's get
the Bastards." They don't have any other levels. This is the reason they
have been used on the front line of the British army for the last 300
years.
The French government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror
alert level from "Run" to "Hide." The only two higher levels in France are
"Collaborate" and "Surrender." The rise was precipitated by a recent fire
that destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively paralyzing the
country's military capability.
Italy has increased the alert level from "Shout Loudly and Excitedly" to
"Elaborate Military Posturing." Two more levels remain: "Ineffective
Combat Operations" and "Change Sides."
The Germans have increased their alert state from "Disdainful Arrogance"
to "Dress in Uniform and Sing Marching Songs." They also have two higher
levels: "Invade a Neighbor" and "Lose."
Belgians, on the other hand, are all on holiday as usual; the only threat
they are worried about is NATO pulling out of Brussels .
The Spanish are all excited to see their new submarines ready to deploy.
These beautifully designed subs have glass bottoms so the new Spanish navy
can get a really good look at the old Spanish navy.
Australia, meanwhile, has raised its security level from "No worries" to
"She'll be alright, Mate." Three more escalation levels remain: "Crikey!",
"I think we'll need to cancel the barbie this weekend", and "The barbie is
cancelled."
I think this was John Lithgow. Or at least, I saw him reading it on t.v.
p
I've copied and pasted a couple of paragraghs from an email between myself and some of my coworkers. Some facts about our restaurant operations:
We serve over 4.7 million buffets per year.
Foodservice serves over 90,000 meals per day. Put another way, "in the time it takes our customer to drive a mile, we have served 63 meals"
Coffee: 315,000 pounds per year....equates to over 28,000,000 cups served...OR "We pour a cup of coffee every 1.1 seconds!"
Fries: 1.15 Million pounds per year....approximately 3.45 million potatoes! (according to a quick Google search 3 potatoes equal a pound of fries. Not sure on the accuracy.)
Bacon: 960,000 pounds of bacon per year. It takes 64,000 Pork Bellies to make that much...equates to 15,360,000 slices
Tom
You guys are big.
It was just a discussion that we were having at the request of our marketing department. They want some impressive stats to use in some sort of material.
There's more....we have several fast food brands we operate. One of them specializes in fried chicken. I'm leaving the brand name off because I'm not sure it's information I should make public (coporate paranoia, man!)
Brand X Fact:
An average "Brand X" purchases and sells a ton of chicken every week...literally!
That's right, an average "Brand X" purchases 55 cases of chicken per week, and each case has 35-40 pounds of chicken, so that's about 2000 pounds (one ton) per week per location.
That equates to nearly five million pounds, or nearly 2500 tons, of chicken per year at all of our Brand X's combined.
Tom
I would like to thank everyone who contributed to my 50th birthday present. (just got it last week) Mely and I watched a PBS show about Route 66 a few years back and have wanted to drive it eve since.
Pete
It must be Popeyes.
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