My morning of fame with the kids came off OK.
I was up to run a two hour workshop last week - keeps
the little darlings of the streets you see - so I
went with the keep em busy line. They had to flesh
out a story and give life to the characters a la
cadavre
exquis. Then the little loves had to make em, and
the scenery, and then put on the show. Better than
reading them a dodgy Shakespeare translation badly.
[Although reading up on A Midsummer Night's
Dream was fun.]....
This is the final result - to be roundly flogged
tomorrow.
Again from those nice PP folks
Green Room Open Thread
Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) offers a few more lessons learned:
Mr. Speaker, yesterday the President said we continue to be wise about how we spend the people's money.
"Then why are we paying over $100,000 for a 'White House Director of Lessons Learned'?
"Maybe I can save the taxpayers $100,000 by running through a few of the lessons this White House should have learned by now.
"Lesson 1: When the Army Chief of Staff and the Secretary of State say you are going to war without enough troops, you're going to war without enough troops.
"Lesson 2: When 8.8 billion dollars of reconstruction funding disappears from Iraq, and 2 billion dollars disappears from Katrina relief, it's time to demand a little accountability.
"Lesson 3: When you've 'turned the corner' in Iraq more times than Danica Patrick at the Indy 500, it means you are going in circles.
"Lesson 4: When the national weather service tells you a category 5 hurricane is heading for New Orleans, a category 5 hurricane is heading to New Orleans.
"I would also ask the President why we're paying for two 'Ethics Advisors' and a 'Director of Fact Checking.'
"They must be the only people in Washington who get more vacation time than the President.
"Maybe the White House could consolidate these positions into a Director of Irony."
Echos of Ben Franklin
Besides being loved by many women of all ages for his wit, wisdom, and charm, da Man on da hunna dolla bill left an amazing legacy of pithy quotes that we ignore at our peril. From one of the most magnificent minds in history, Professor Benjamin Franklin:
Who is wise?
He that learns from everyone.
Who is powerful?
He that governs his passions.
Who is rich?
He who is content.
Who is that?
Nobody.
OK, so after my last - rather smug post I've had a
week of bad luck. Phone stolen. PowerBook HD crash
and burn. Tyre stabbed. Instant Karma's gone an' got
me. Well as bad lick comes in three's I should be OK
until the next time?
The moral? Never dis' the Dark Side.
Oh and then ITALY win the big WC. Grrrr.
Rrrr.
OK - so it's a short article by a Mac geek who knows how to handle system problems - and has a nifty workaround for whatever issues he's having here - but it's still relatively amusing - to another [long-term] Mac geek.