• About Me

    I’m an opinionated Grumpy Old Man. I enjoy the intellectual give and take that goes along with that, but have very little patience for stupid people (Note: there is a big difference between “stupid” and “educated”. Some of the stupidest people I’ve ever met have a PhD…). Beside arguing, I like to build things in almost any media. Right now I’m mostly building in wood, Lego, and a bunch of different electronic media. I teach in a number of different venues - from preschool all the way through graduate school. Subjects range from talmud to neuroscience to engineering.

    For fun, I like to bash people with swords (OK, so they’re made of foam. It’s still fun). Although I spend a lot of my time in a wheelchair, I manage to keep pretty active (Like bashing people with swords). I am a libertarian, and have a hard time finding anything good to say about government or politicians. OK, politicians might make good sausage, but that's about as good as it gets.

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Is there a better way to grade students?

Posted on June 18, 2007 by sphyrnatude

This is the culmination of a bunch of different discussion, blog threads, and years of using and getting grades. I’m talking about the old-fashioned A B C D F +- grading system that most of us grew up with, and which many of us still deal with today.
When I was kid, a letter grade was [...]

Filed under: Politics, School, parenting, teach, teaching | 4 Comments »

Copwatch.com: a service for reporting and tracking police abuse of power

Posted on June 18, 2007 by sphyrnatude

Ho folks,
many of you have asked if there is a place on the web where you can report on police abuse of power. This is the best site that I’ve found:
http://copwatch.com/
They not only allow the public to post reports (moderated) of police abuse, they allow the police to respond. There are a number of forums [...]

Filed under: Politics, news | 9 Comments »

Monday Manifest: Things I did as a kid that are now illegal

Posted on June 18, 2007 by sphyrnatude

Face it folks, times have changed. Things that were common and accepted when I was a kid are completely illegal now. If a kid was caught doing many of the things I did everyday, his folks would be arrested faster than Speedy Gonzales could steel a hunk of cheese. So, here’s the list:

Fireworks. Not just firecrackers, [...]

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