A classroom favorite of mine — and though my students act like they hate it, they really love it — the infamous Wordgame of Death, also known ashangman.

At long last English classes are gearing back up at TU-D. Must go in tomorrow to get my lists and stuff before my first class.

Totally cool totally cool!

ear is a site with lots of pictures of super special hearing devices to detect oncoming planes. These photos come from the thirties, or then again maybe not.

I’ve never heard of this technology before but I dreamt of it when I made the Toast of the Century cartoon. So apply a grain of salt if you are not sure. But it’s still so damn cool!

I have got to find on of these contraptions to complete my collection of underground silos and old aircraft carriers!

Well Gee-willikers. I just got an email from a former student from a few years ago. Turns out, he snuck in a digicam and recorded class on the first day. Apparently, this has been going around the internet for some time, so you might have already seen it (blush)…

Gosh, I can’t help but laugh myself! Just to think how much I’ve learned since that day five years ago. One thing is for sure: I’ve come unto my own, and I sure as gosharooty don’t work blue anymore!

You can view that whacky video
here.

Our good friends at the Fortean Times have a nice article about Kaspar Hauser, that creepy lad who wandered onto the scene in Nuremberg in 1828, well dressed and well fed, yet feral, and who sparked many a lost-heir theories only to get himself inexplicably murdered.

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See, this is what happens when you don’t pay enough attention to the local news.

Archeologists in Saxony have found what may be the oldest pornographic statue in the world. story

Of course, seeing as it is Saxony, that would be bornograwich. N???

I spent a few hours with Ron and some other superfriends hanging out with a good buddy who just got back from the hospital. He or she had to have an operation to have one of his or her testicles removed after the doctors found a malignant tumor attached to it.

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On this day the pope kicked the bucket.