The World According to Student Bloopers

Things I must do today:

• appt with Dr. Tobin
  
• Property and Legislation printouts
  
• Justin's clothes
  
• bathe my sticky children
  
• read the court transcript

I first saw this Student Blooper thing in high school. My one regret about teaching for four years is that I never gathered the best howlers from my own students, because I could've done a "Computers According to Student Bloopers" of my own.

Actually, I could've gotten everything just from one guy who typed abysmally and who discovered the spellchecker on his own, without realizing you need to read the words you approve. His four-page assignment was entirely composed of statements like, "The head dices is in the iterant drivel, the flops is the ennoble drib" (answering a question about hard and floppy disk drives), and "Anal the pogrom" (aka "Analyse the program").

Anyway. ( From Richard Lederer, St. Paul's School )

sanity savers

Stolen from medee6040, this was a nifty way to pass the time whenever Property just wore me down with boredom. Who needs sedatives when you have Easements and Riparian Rights to read about? ZZZZZZzzzzzzz...

( The Book of Three )

heh

( Canadian Temperature Chart )

Re that last one... I hate to be a traitor to my town but... wow. Belfour really was amazing. Chris is on call tonight, so I was able to watch the first half of the game with the boys. They were yelling Go Sens Go for about half an hour before the game started (although until tonight they had only a very, very hazy idea of what exactly hockey was all about). They weren't terribly happy that the Leafs got three goals in the first quarter, but I pointed out that the Leafs were also a really good team, and Daniel at least got to enjoy the game a bit before bedtime. I missed everything from about 8:40 onwards. Except the congratulating line - that, I saw. And from what I saw, they deserved it :)