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[magid]

Snark: South Carolina's governor Sanford burned his eyes the day before election under too-bright lights... at the opening of new headquarters for Inspiration Networks, an xtian TV network. (Do you SEE the light?)

Silly: There are some bizarre patents issued in the U.S.

Skipping school: As of September, it's now legal in MA for 16- and 17-year-olds to be poll workers, so at least one civics teacher suggested his students work the polls instead of coming to school. I think it's a great way to get kids involved in local politics (something my long-ago civics class sorely lacked).

Steel: Thorne designs mostly steel houses, which means that they can be cantilevered over steep slopes, and keep more of the site as it was before building. I was impressed to read how he investigated how the light would fall at different times of day and year.

Sad: Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (co-author of Cheaper by the Dozen, among other books, and the last surviving of her siblings) died November 4, age 98.

Comments

[rhysara.livejournal.com]

Actually not all MA students had school today. In our district for example today was a teacher in service day so the kids had the day off to do as they please. I passed a number of them on my way to work this morning. Standing in the cold holding signs for one candidate or another. (they schedule it this way in our community because one of the elementary schools is used as a polling place, so sthe school day would be badly disrupted if school was held.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Huh. At least one friend of mine has a school as a polling place that wasn't shut down at all (and much time was wasted with traffic woes, etc). I remember being alerted that we'd have to bring our lunches on election day because polling was in the cafeteria (why they didn't use the gym instead is beyond me).

Go, activist students!

PS

[magid.livejournal.com]

Was the in-service useful?

Re: PS

[rhysara.livejournal.com]

not in the slightest.

Re: PS

[magid.livejournal.com]

Why does that so often seem to be the case? Just a waste of everyone's time.