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books and teachers
I fail to comprehend why Where's Waldo is on the banned/challenged books list. I mean, what is wrong with Waldo?
Seriously, I have no idea why half of them are on there.
I had a computer science professor who we shall call Phil Ventura (because that was his name) who had several fundamental laws about the world as he saw it.
I loved this guy. I remember one random day when people kept coming into class late and it was obviously pissing him off, and he turned to the class and said, "the next person that comes in that door is getting a great big hug".
And of course, some poor ESL student walks in, and Ventura stops lecturing, walks over to him and gives him a huge hug.
...
I just realized that a portion of the character of Ross Matthews was probably based on this weirdo.
But anyway, Ventura had fundamental laws about life.
1. Other people suck.
2. We are all fundamentally lazy.
3. Our stuff is always better than anyone else's stuff.
I've found them often true over the years. Not always. But often. Too often for my own comfort.
Phil rocked. Anyone that used headless snowboarders to demonstrate concepts is cool in my book.
I had a math teacher once that used sheep to demonstrate types of numbers. It got interesting when she got into fractional sheep or negative sheep. (They got eaten. Or died and they had to borrow more sheep to get their breeding stock back. Just so's you know.)
Seriously, I have no idea why half of them are on there.
I had a computer science professor who we shall call Phil Ventura (because that was his name) who had several fundamental laws about the world as he saw it.
I loved this guy. I remember one random day when people kept coming into class late and it was obviously pissing him off, and he turned to the class and said, "the next person that comes in that door is getting a great big hug".
And of course, some poor ESL student walks in, and Ventura stops lecturing, walks over to him and gives him a huge hug.
...
I just realized that a portion of the character of Ross Matthews was probably based on this weirdo.
But anyway, Ventura had fundamental laws about life.
1. Other people suck.
2. We are all fundamentally lazy.
3. Our stuff is always better than anyone else's stuff.
I've found them often true over the years. Not always. But often. Too often for my own comfort.
Phil rocked. Anyone that used headless snowboarders to demonstrate concepts is cool in my book.
I had a math teacher once that used sheep to demonstrate types of numbers. It got interesting when she got into fractional sheep or negative sheep. (They got eaten. Or died and they had to borrow more sheep to get their breeding stock back. Just so's you know.)
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