Archive for May 5th, 2008

TAL live show feedback

5 May 2008


Ry Jones wrote
at 6:16pm
I have to disagree - the live event, well, sucked. As a DVD extra, it may have been cool. Paying $20 to sit for two hours of Showtime ads was annoying. Paying $20 to see outtakes - “here is stuff that sucked so bad we wouldn’t use it, so now you get to watch it” - sucked. Chris needs to take a chill pill, or practice being in front of an audience; he was clearly not on his game. Ira, for the most part, did what I think he could with what he was given. The live audience questions were spotty (some not so good, some really good). Too bad Ira ducked the most interesting one; his response about the gay guy in the closet was lame.

The question I sent in, which didn’t get asked, was “why do you hate America so much?”. It would have been very on point, considering the amount of screen time given to a former agent of Saddam’s regime’s propaganda arm. Why did his family lose jobs? Possibly in the de-Baathification push?

Sadly, I’m out of characters.

From TAL’s wall. I still listen to TAL every week, but my question for Ira still stands.

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Washington State Patrol suggests you break the law

5 May 2008

Q: A few nights ago, Seattleite Nate Molsee was driving south on Interstate 5 through Lynnwood just after sundown and came upon an SUV in the lane to his left without its headlights on. Rainy weather and the dusky light made the vehicle practically invisible, he said. He wasn’t sure what to do. “Should I have followed the example of some of the other drivers and flashed my lights, or pulled over and called 911?”

A: State Patrol spokesman Bob Calkins says in a case like that, flash your lights once. If the other vehicle’s lights don’t come on, the driver may be drunk or under the influence of something else, “and it’s probably worth calling 911 from your cellphone.”

In Washington state, it is illegal to flash your lights at someone.

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Teacher’s union works to keep math, science grant from AP students

5 May 2008

I’m sure chronically “underfunded” schools in Washington didn’t need the money, anyway.

NMSI declined to give any specifics, but state Rep. Bill Fromhold, who resigned his legislative post as of next year so he could help administer Washington’s grant, said it had to do with how teachers would be paid for the time they spent in training, and how they would receive incentives for how well students scored on AP exams.

NMSI wanted to pay teachers directly, he said, while Washington’s collective bargaining laws require that teacher pay be negotiated between teachers unions and school districts.

The AP students of Washington state thank you, I’m sure.

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