Extreme Pet Makeover! Extreme Pet Makeover!

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Are you reading Mr. Sun? Today he lists all the reality show goodies we can look forward to in the wake of Who’s Your Daddy?. But Mr. Sun, where is Extreme Pet Makeover? I can’t wait to see when ugly cats are made pretty by the power of TELEVISION!

Update! Anthony has got some more!

Virtual Teachers and Students Close, But Not Close Enough to Boogey, Which is a Comfortable Distance

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Dan Winckler sends along this article about virtual teachers being closer, in some ways, to their students than traditional face-to-face classroom teachers. No news here.

And for everyone who says that closeness in electronic form, over the Internet, is creepy, I refer you to the high school teacher who always seemed to be dating the editor of the yearbook, which he advised. Come on now.

(Dan found it on Techdirt.)

My Cheap-Ass Thought of the Day

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I have discovered one of the hazards of having a mini-fridge. You’re buying soda for your whole office, whether you like it or not. I left with a fully stocked fridge, and returned to just 2 sodas. Grouse grouse grouse.

Update! Dirtbag David B. fessed up to his heinous crime and produced a dollar, which I will use to buy more soda. And to prove that I am an asshole but not that outrageously asshole-ish, I will provide him one.