Topper's TravelsTopper Kain's blog. Topper Kain is a world-famous kazoo player and traditional norwegian food chef. He wants you to use the comments. Saturday, April 07, 2007So I didn't know this before, but apparently Barrack Obama's full name is Barrack Hussein Obama. I wonder if there is a chance in hell that anyone would have voted for a guy named Ivan Adolf Stalin in the 1950's... Maybe....: posted by Topper 4:12 AMThursday, April 05, 2007I was browsing the WASL science standards will waiting for a phone interview and I must say that I'm more than a little disappointed. As I could attest to from my experience in the Washington State school system, science education is heavy on what I call the "fluff" sciences, geography and biology, rather than the useful (and math heavy) sciences of physics, chemistry, and engineering(I'd say computer science too, but I have a bias it could be under math).In particular, I'm bothered (and boggled) by the sample 10th grade "science" test. It was entirely biology based. Although the experimental part of it was fine (a table of numbers is a table of numbers) the multiple-choice questions were purely biology based. More when I get more time... .: posted by Topper 12:35 PMSunday, April 01, 2007Pages Written on my Thesis: 37 (Up from 23 this morning!)Number of those pages actually acceptable: 34 Mininmum required: 40 Recommended: 60 chapters written: 1.9 minimum needed: 4 left to do: Finish the chapter I wrote tonite Come up with one more idea for a chapter to describe miscellanious things I've been looking at. write 20 more pages this week Find a way to work Jack Bauer, the TMNT, and maybe borat into this thesis. This is how I feel: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=804 .: posted by Topper 6:08 AM |
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