fine whine

So as I toiled today on my web-work for hire, I was jotting notes in an old notebook. I flipped through many a page of calculus figures and other artifacts of my "ersatz" education (pay attention to the fourth one, I suppose). They're not really funny, informative or even interesting, but if I type them up I can recycle that piece of paper. One down, several thousand to go, I suppose.

• You know the problem with Democrats is these days? There aren't enough Republicans making fun of them.
• Idea for a new TV show: Laugh at the everyday foibles of a group of five 20-something Canadian lumberjacks! It's a show about friendship, life, flannel and cutting down trees. Call it Chops.
• Idea for a new TV show: Persistence. A young teenage woman lies about her age and sex and gets into military academy to follow a hunky guy who enlosted before they could get to know each other. Plenty of soul-searching, drill-instructing drama!
• I think we need placebo schools -- that way we can really gauge how well we're doing. The placebo students would be the same as the real students except that they'd be learning complete nonsense. I'd like to be a teacher at one of those schools.
• Soon, every sport will have a corresponding computer game. They're pretty close--I'm still waiting for Virtual Yo-yo.

I will admit to liking that penultimate one about placebo schools, so much that I threw it onto my thots page. The rest are pretty bad, and I can only guess from the third one that the list was compiled sometime around the fall of 1998. Either I wasn't really funny then or I was trying too hard. Looking at the last one there, I think it was almost all the latter (but still a little of the former). Make of that what you will.