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Most media coverage of LAUSD tends to be fairly short-lived, with little lasting repercussions. Finally today, the L.A. Daily News has let the cat out of the bag, publishing a story about the disparity in administrator and teacher salaries. What’s more, is that they’ve published a searchable database for [...]
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Now Playing: Dedicated Follower of Fashion - The Kinks
I had two options for what to watch last night. I could have watched some utterly depressing baseball (3 games worth). But rather than soak in the gloom, I headed over to a colleague’s Hollywood apartment to watch the next most entertaining thing on television, The [...]
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This image (which took me quite a few seconds to “get”, after which I laughed out loud), comes from one of my new favorite web sites, GraphJam. And what I love best about this graph is that it reveals how utterly clueless most of us are.
And for your reading pleasure, an anecdote to illustrate this [...]
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Full disclosure: I hate the Yankees. I really, really hate the Yankees. And I love challenging those who tend to feel otherwise.
However, when pressed, I must admit that yes, the Yankees have been nothing if not good for baseball as a sport, a pastime, and a culture. So with today’s final game ever at Yankee [...]
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Ice fishing. Flights out of LAX. Family vacations to Iowa.
The above situations have been for the most part the only reason in my life that I’ve ever felt the necessity to wake up (and get up) before the crack of dawn, while the night is still in the midst of all it’s dark glory. As [...]
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I know, I know I’m only twenty-seven twenty-six (wow, I can’t even count anymore!), however there are quite a number of things that are beginning (and continuing) to make me feel old.
First, my former roommate for during my first three years living in Los Angeles, Brett, is mounting a political campaign for his [...]
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You wonder if it is a good thing when you open up a major American newspaper and see the name of your school in the text, especially when the headline touts city prosecutors.
Well, such was the case this morning when I read an L.A.Times article basically stating that based on a successful initiative at Markham [...]
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“I don’t know what the original directions you were given, but these are the directions now”.
The above quote sounds like something an exasperated teacher would say to a class of unruly students upon the realization that the carefully laid plans for the class had utterly backfired. However, I did not hear these frustrated words [...]
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“Tangerine” is not only a fantastic Led Zeppelin song, but also one of the ingredients present in a salad that I learned how to create today in day 1 of a 4-Saturday basic cooking course.
Oh yes, in the course of a mere three hours, I have graduated from a culinary capability rivaling the utter mathematical [...]
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The year has not begun with a bang, but with a whimper. Even though this is year 5 for me, it only feels like my third time around. And yet, as I introduced myself to a rather frightened looking bunch of 7th graders, I wish I could simply skip this whole beginning of the [...]
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