Author Archives: Vergil

Coffee Stains: Dear Mr. Noble

(on having a former teacher asking me what’s been happening in my life since 1984 via Facebook)
Dear Mr. Noble,
And I start that way because what student has the gall to called their teacher by the first name? It just sounds and feels funny, so I’ll simply address you the same way I did in high [...]

Obama: You had me at “Audacity”

We’re simply not ready for this: the state of the Indiana actually matters on a national level election (well, even if it is the Democratic nominee, it still is probably the most exciting voting thing here in the Midwest since… let me think about that for a moment).
Anyway, I got my first attack mailer from [...]

Coffee Stains: Amateur Hour

Sometimes I feel like I’m getting payback for how lazy I was as a child. I was not helpful around the house and I watched a lot of television in the 70s until I got to school and then I was busy with whatever sports season it was or whatever social engagement was happening. Oh, [...]

Coffee Stains: Why I won’t be advising next year

Because I can.
And that is perhaps the long and short of it.

As it stands, my teaching schedule does not include Student Publications nor Beginning Journalism and that is a first since I’ve taken this position at Concord High School 13 years ago. The change also has me not in Room 138: a room I’ve occupied [...]

Weather whines, Obama rallies in No Indiana and


Playing tag at the park


Safari and WP 2.5 finally in step

Not crippling or llfe-threatening, but the inability of Safari to play nice with WordPress’ visual editor has been, at best, annoying. The last major release of Safari said that all things with visual editors were to be fixed, but that didn’t take. And, I’m not sure who to blame or praise today, but the issue [...]

Coffee Stains: Colour televisions and Spring Break

It was Mrs. Addis who told me that I’d be blind in twenty years if I looked at the solar eclipse back in 1978; I looked and I’m still looking. She also was the first person I remember to complain (or comment) about the poor, or those on welfare. She was telling us how she [...]

Final

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Chandler A drops last round; 1.5/4

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