As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History

I figured it was just a matter of time until I saw this headline. The classic textbook is nearing the end of it's life. Soon you will probably see the "Textbook" in the list of items that kids of the next generation will not remember along with VHS, Analog TV and many other things that I (and alot of others) grew up with.

So the kids of today and tommorow will miss the experience of taking a paper shopping bag and making it into a cover for their books (which most in my generation did quite often), writing on them to make those course books that all of our peers carried, just a bit more individualised than our friend's books.

And they will miss looking at the front "sign in page" of the books to see who the prior "owners" may have been (secretly hoping that the book that they called their own was either one of their "siblings" or a school hero that they admired from the previous year or so....

I have to admit that I have not seen an episode of the 70's iconic cartoon series "The Jetsons" in quite a while, but I wonder if the people who created that series, forsaw the demise of this venerable institution as they potrayed Elroy leaving for school in the morning??

To think that just 30 years ago....the very item (computers) that are taking their place in the classroom, did not even exist in my vocabulary. How fast the world changes.

Read on for more on the demise of the quitisential classroom textbook.....

As Classrooms Go Digital, Textbooks May Become History - NYTimes.com

Some Awesome (I mean AWESOME) photos....

The following photos are probably some of the coolest I have ever seen. If I could only find the artistic talant in myself to be able to take such amazing photos....
Click full screen to get the full effect of these utterly fantastic pictures.....

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Wisconsin Rapids' Very Own Jeffery Dahmner

What is it with these people?
He had a fantasy and he acted it out in real life....
He took two unwilling men and put them into his little fantasy of bondage and sexual assault.
All I can say is this guy had a lot of courage and guts to do this to these two men and to think that he wouldnt be found out........how deranged can one person be??

It is stories like this that make me ashamed to say I was born and raised in this burg.

Read on for the story and the sentance that he recieved for doing these horrendous acts:

Man gets 50 years in Rapids abduction, assault case - JSOnline

A Manager's Worst Nightmare

I am sorry but this woman is a complete "nut job" or as my parents used to say...."she is one sandwich short of a picnic basket".....

It is people like this woman who make managing others and their own jobs all that much harder.
Come on now.....filing grievances or whatever you call them because the "door to the bathroom stays open too long or too short...."-now that is going way overboard.

I hope to god that there are not other employees of this dept. that get under her skin. God Forbid she would probably have them put in an mental hospital for causing HER mental anguish.

Read on for more on The injunction that was sought by Ann Capadona, 62, after she was told by another co-worker that another coworker said on Feb. 16 he would like to take Capadona "out back and shoot her"...
Revenue workers oversaw employee injunctions - JSOnline

World Wide Swine Flu Pandemic Declared Finally...

This just in from the AP.....
Though the cases here in the U.S. have been mild in comparison to the flu of 1918 and other deadly years, some people fear that this monster has just begun to rear it's ugly little head...

Read on for the pandemic decleration release:

JSOnline.com AP News

Google Wave: A Complete Guide

The Big Wave is coming....
No not the Big Wave that is part of a flood that will wipe out humanity like the one that drowned Noah's homeland a few thousand years back.

This time it is coming from Google (who will no doubt one day rule the world if they are not doing it secretevly already..) and it will be a whole new way to communicate and I have a feeling will be as commonplace as Google's search engine is today.

Read on for more on this up and coming technology that will probably change all of our lives....

Google Wave: A Complete Guide

Walker calls for freezing Wages....But Abelson is a Duffus

I have a friend who works in this county's government in administration and from all accounts on what I have personally heard, what Walker is doing is indeed politically motivated.

But that is not to say that these wage freezes and possible layoffs are not needed. Cuts are needed and it behooves everyone involved in these things to come to the "table" as adults and talk things through.

I have heard that this Richard Abelson is hot head and he even sent out a newsletter to the people of the union he respresents which had paragraphs that were downright nasty and amounted to name calling and badjering of some of Walker's department heads.

That in itself is totally unessicary and to add to all of that, this guy even came into a dept. head's office and berated him to his face. That is in my opinion "school ground bully tactics" to the Nth degree.


Walker calls for freezing all county salaries through 2010 - JSOnline