I miss ol’ Ron. I took the liberty of recording our last
interview the night before he flew back to Cali.

After this Tuesday on, be sure to listen to last weeks program of This American Life. There, you can listen to part two of Hyder Akbar’s audio diary entries from his second visit in Afghanistan.
Hyder Akbar, an American-Afghani, returned last year with his exiled father. His father, a former freedom fighter, is now a rather important official in the government.
In the second installment, Hyder describes an Afghani TV gameshow where the winner could win a case of soap; later he records an entry while in an ambush. The most heavy segment deals with a friend of the family who becomes only the third Afghan prisoner to die in captivity.

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They caught the guy.

Little Wee Diary day four
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How to wash a dog.

Little Wee Diary Day three.
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Class will be held this coming week in the usual spot, D?R 274.

Those guys at AP are a might tech savvy. Read about that new-biggest-prime-number-guy righthere. Find the mistake?

Shafer ran a Dell Dimension PC with 2 gigahertz of memory and an Intel Pentium 4 microprocessor _ 'like you'd get at Circuit City' _ in his office for 19 days until Nov. 17, when he glanced at the screen at 2:30 p.m. and saw 'New Mersenne prime found.' The number is 6,320,430 digits long and would need 1,400 to 1,500 pages to write out

Little Wee Diaries — Day ta-hooo.
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PC pool week was a mild success. I changed the lesson plan for each class as I went along, and the results were astonishingly varied. The classes that went well went very very well, the ones that didn’t just blew chunks.

The interactive chat had some interesting moments. I saved the transcript of one of the better ones for sake of posterity. Not all classes took to it, though. In fact, some just went ape. Oh well.

The Little Wee Diary–Day one.

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This is the magic of Modemocracy:

1) Go to Google.

2) Type in “miserable failure”

3) Hit I feel lucky (auf gut Gl?ck!)

4) Tee hee.

Annet wrote me about this week’s English Club:

This week we are meeting at Caf? 100 in the basement
on Wednesday at eight as usual.

In January another English club activity will take
place. We want to visit the Karl-May-Museum in
Radebeul. A guided tour in
English costs 50 ?. That means we should be at least
ten persons, so that it won't be too expensive.
Please tell me if you are interested and which date
would you prefer: 17./18. or 24./25.Jan.?

I wonder if that is to say we would be sleeping over in the museum over night from the 17th to the 18th? Better bring a bedroll, partner.