Mr. T. is Back from Libya and full of interesting news. The wedding is off — he decided she didn’t look as good in the photos and boy is his dad mad. He’s also planning on leaving the world of investment banking and going to work in petrol.
And in last class, as threatened, he presented me with an Italian suit. It fit perfectly. In exchange, I gave him a Swedish licorice lozenge, you know, the really salty ones. I was a good lesson.

In other news, new stuffy pics. Captions forthcoming.

PC POOL TIME

Text for today

1.Why will Apple never make a PDA?
2.What difficulties might Apple have in naming their new product ?iPhone??
3.Why didn’t they call Apple TV ?iTV??
4.Read the part that starts with ?Some months ago my wife nudged me …?. What relevance does this anecdote bear on this text?
5.How does the author of this text interpret the meaning of the iphone ?naming fiasco?? That is, to what purpose is it?
6.How did apple ?hobble? the iPhone?
7.What is EDGE?
8.Why will the iPhone not support the 3G network?

PHISHING
Catch the Phish — Can you spot which examples are fraudulent?

VOCAB
Commonly confused words

GRAMMAR
Do the following:.
–Error Correction ex. 3
(scroll down)
–TOEFL Questions
–Test of Grammar & Vocab

FUNNY
Engrish.com.

Birthday Greetings to Rob MacMillan
a shorte videoe bye Julie Dumonteil
to whiche if honourede the birfhdaye
oure friende Robbe MacMillane
who hath verily return’d
to hif homelande NewSealande
(beyonde whither Dragones be)
whiche if moft amufing.

PC Pool Dates

We’ll be holding class at the PC pool E069 on the following dates:

ENG-INF-L1.1-2 (Wed 3.DS)
02 May 2007 and 23 May 2007

ENG-INF-L2.2-1 (Wed 1.DS)
16 May 2007

ENG-INF-L2.2-2 (Fri 1.DS)
25 May 2007

Louis Theroux — Wrestling pt 4

This is for my L2 guys. Start paying attention at around 4:30. At around 5 minutes they train their public speaking skills. I know it sounds funny, but we can learn a thing or two from this. We’ll discuss that next time.

Scheduling mixup solved

English for Inf class for Frei. 1. DS will continue as planned next Friday. See you there.

Watch videos of talks given at TED — Technology Entertainment Design. Some very bright people with some very good things to say.

My court date was very exciting yesterday. I was quite nervous all morning and I wasn’t even the defendant. He was some young punk kid of about maybe 25, and completely terrified.

My information was at best circumstantial and I must wonder why after 13 months this whole thing came to trial at all. At any rate no one told me that they found my camera, so unless they’ve got some really damning evidence about the guy, it looks like he’ll go free.

Did you see Louis Theroux’s documentary on BBC2 about Fred Phelps’ bunch a coupla weeks back? Neither did I, but it turns out that it doesn’t matter: Here it is.