Bag of Randomness

  • My cubemate walked into the office yesterday like it was just another day, then at noon he got a phone call from his family in India telling him his father died unexpectedly.  He hasn’t been back to India for quite some time, but was on a four o’clock flight later that same afternoon.
  • If your parents are alive, call them today.
  • If you don’t have any living parents, tell your kids you love them.
  • If you don’t have either, tell someone you care about what they mean to you.
  • My allergies have been killing me.
  • Chase has those “Pick Up The Tab” commercials where they tell you that one of your purchases could spontaneously be paid for by them.  I always thought that either I wouldn’t win or if I did, they would pick up the tab on a small fast food purchase or something.  But I was wrong, I was luck enough to have them pick up a $122 purchase.  Lucky me.
  • Melanie Oudin has a Reese Witherspoon appeal to her.
  • 1000 melting soldiers in Berlin
  • I hear the new Cowboys Stadium is in the world record books for having the most HD televisions in one place, 3000 of them.  I wonder if they got a discount for a bulk order.
  • My laptop came back in the mail yesterday.  So far, so good.  The only thing I still can’t figure out is hooking it via HDMI to a big screen.  When I do that, I can’t get the sound to transfer, so it’s probably just a setting issue.
  • President George W. Bush will be speaking to school children at the Cowboys Stadium.
  • Both Letterman and Conan pretty much made the same joke about Obama’s speech to students yesterday, something to the effect of sitting next to an Asian kid to get better grades.  I’m not offended, it’s just an observation.
  • Tony Blair was on Letterman.  It was quite interesting.
  • Schools Should Teach Christianity’s Role in U.S. History, Say Evangelicals
  • A Parable of Political Compassion
  • Grace
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Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books.

ASHBURNHAM – There are rolling hills and ivy-covered brick buildings. There are small classrooms, high-tech labs, and well-manicured fields. There’s even a clock tower with a massive bell that rings for special events.

Cushing Academy has all the hallmarks of a New England prep school, with one exception.

This year, after having amassed a collection of more than 20,000 books, officials at the pristine campus about 90 minutes west of Boston have decided the 144-year-old school no longer needs a traditional library. The academy’s administrators have decided to discard all their books and have given away half of what stocked their sprawling stacks – the classics, novels, poetry, biographies, tomes on every subject from the humanities to the sciences. The future, they believe, is digital.

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