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.
Try out this Shaggs’ Custom Desktop theme (Win 98). I made it myself like, years ago.
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.
Tasks For today:
1) I am getting a digicam for Xmas. Which one should I ask for? It needs to be in the 200 – 300 Eu price range. But money isn`t everything. It?s all about what comes with. Some good starting points are listed on page 29.
2) You have not done a lick of preparation for your presentation?!! Well, no time like the present, eh?
3) Find some nice text. Translate it in Babblefish. Then do it again. And again, then back into English. Send it through the Chat.
4) Apropos Babblefish, a Doctor Who story written by Douglas Adams: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/shada/ You need sound.
5) Links galore:
the ones in bold seem pretty neat.
I’m goin’ back to Cali, Cali, Cali.
goin’ back to Cali…
That’s right!
Attention- all who did not sign up for the Arnold Let Me have Some Pie Too giveaway!
Let me know asap what you want me to bring back from California.
Please limit your responses on this one to item, quantity and your name seeing as how one tends to be discursive.
Thanks- have a fantastic time where you are during the holidays and everyone be nice to each other.
See you at the Roar of 2004- rOn
A “Bazillion” thanks to Onkel Roman for the cartoon.
I stumbled upon an interesting passage about Arctic pagan roots of Christmas when I stumbled upon this article on shamanism:
It has even been suggested that the figure of Father Christmas derives from this type of shamanic practice. At the winter solstice, Finnish shamans would eat large quantities of the highly toxic fly agaric mushroom. They would then go around the village, dressed in red and white to mimic the colouring of the mushroom, and urinate down the smokehole of each hut. The villagers would drink the urine, which would contain a potent - but not life-threatening - dose of the fly agaric toxin.
Getting high by drinking the urine of those who ingested highly toxic mushrooms is the very first image I get when I think about Xmas.
Here’s more on that from the good folks at Fungus of the Month! With some great pictures.
We will meet the week of Dec. 8th in Language Lab BZW 251.
No no no. I have decided not to make another advent calendar this year. Last year’s was exhausting. So I just put a button to last year’s on the front page along with an irreverent xmas ecard, now that I have all my PHP ducks in a row. The perls are all working now too.