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The "I feel awesome today" thread.
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I am not sick anymore and I am about to go for a run after 4 days. It feels good :D
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Say what, Furyk?
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Pretty cool! Is there a website we can check out her comic?
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Well that was the article in the paper and I wanted to read the comic, smartass. I was asking if we can read the comic online or if it's only paper.
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smartass?
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homemade strawberry-basil
margaritas and steak/corn quesadillas with my wife. Good times. I wish everyone could have this. -
Yes, linking me to "let me google that for you" is the work of a smartass.
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Only paper at the moment. When she finishes the run with the small local publisher, we're going to collect it and try and get it distributed digitally. Website for it is here though its terribly out of date. http://www.movementcomics.com/karaokeninja said:Well that was the article in the paper and I wanted to read the comic, smartass. I was asking if we can read the comic online or if it's only paper.
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Huh. So when I click on the comic on the website it takes me to this a page advertising Zombie Patrol, an entirely different comic.
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karaokeninja said:
Huh. So when I click on the comic on the website it takes me to this a page advertising Zombie Patrol, an entirely different comic.
Its the one on the far left at the splash page. Not sure what's up but try reloading it.
In other I feel awesome news, I feel happy as I was a total narc today. One of my students I don't particularly care for came in reeking of weed (to the point where other students and I were a little nauseous) and now he'll be going away for a while. Huzzah. -
Drug charges are so bogus, though =\
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Probably the best outcome. I don't know. My brain is torn in two directions, as I've always been defense-biased, but now that I'm prosecuting people, I'm beginning to wonder if most folks are worth defending at all.
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Well in fairness, this is high school. A kid being caught even with weed is looking at a 10 day out of school suspension and maybe being drug tested by his mom or getting some community service hours. He wouldn't be looking at doing a dime at county because he's a minor. If he's a repeat offender they'd toss him on probation and maybe have him do some time in a juvenile system. Beyond that though, the consequences wouldn't be all that serve especially in the state of Florida to a white male from an affluent family.
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Yes, it's better to have a juvi conviction than an adult one. I still say drug legalization is the best move for dealing with substances. Sixteen and older, you can do whatever you want. Eighteen if people aren't comfortable with that. The fewer people we acquaint with the legal system, the better.
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Doesn't the school have some sort of duty to report things to the cops, though?
On the juvenile charges, it depends on two things: the child's propensity for recidivism and the imposition of detention time, both of which inform one another. A lone juvi conviction that results in, say, $650 in fines and court costs payable either in cash or in equivalent community service isn't likely to fuck the kid. It's making them lose their part-time jobs, sticking them in detention facilities with other misbehaving folks, and taking them out of regular classrooms that will fuck them. -
Hah, brilliant. I love it.
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JonBrescia said:
Doesn't the school have some sort of duty to report things to the cops, though?
On the juvenile charges, it depends on two things: the child's propensity for recidivism and the imposition of detention time, both of which inform one another. A lone juvi conviction that results in, say, $650 in fines and court costs payable either in cash or in equivalent community service isn't likely to fuck the kid. It's making them lose their part-time jobs, sticking them in detention facilities with other misbehaving folks, and taking them out of regular classrooms that will fuck them.
There is usually a school resource officer on duty at the school in most middle schools or older. Again, it is very rare for a kid to be sent to juvi in my district. There is an alternative placement school for kids who have trouble functioning in a standard curriculum that has more one-on-one contact, counseling if needed, and a more focused curriculum that helps kids who are having trouble doing basic work to those who breeze through everything they do. They still live at home and are eventually given the option to re-enroll at their home school if they so choose.
The problem with the way you're phrasing the argument is that a kid with a loan juvi conviction isn't usually a kid who is struggling to do his best by balancing school, a social life, and work who makes some mistakes. The kid who is sent to juvi is usually a total shithead that doesn't care about school, doesn't have a job and only spends free time doing or dealing drugs. Again, my evidence is anecdotal, but the kids who do get put into the system have been given multiple chances to do right or their offense was so extreme that they couldn't stay in the system. Without exception, every single on of the kids I've worked with in my 5 years of teaching who were placed into custody by police had multiple chances to pull their life together before doing any real time whether it be a 48 hour scared straight program in jail or mandatory community service (which is concurrent to the 75 in my district to graduate for all students btw regardless of their situation) or well anything. The system largely works in my neck of the woods for discipline (if anything, its too lenient).
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As far as drugs are concerned, I say that if I can buy whiskey in a grocery store and beer at a gas station then we've solved the problem of making intoxicants available for public consumption.
On the other hand, some places will give a driver a DUI if a passenger is drunk. So Prohibitionism is alive and well. Sometimes you'd think it wasn't two thousand fucking twelve, you know? -
RobotBastard said:
On the other hand, some places will give a driver a DUI if a passenger is drunk. So Prohibitionism is alive and well. Sometimes you'd think it wasn't two thousand fucking twelve, you know?
Where on earth is this? I've never seen a prima facie case for OVI/DUI that doesn't absolutely require control of a motor vehicle coupled with concurrent intoxication. -
California at least has an open container law, which may be what RB is talking about?
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Open container is its own thing, though, but maybe.
Fun: http://brokensecrets.com/2010/07/28/drinking-and-driving-is-legal-in-mississippi/
May no longer be good law, but I'm too lazy to investigate. The South has some fun drinking and driving provisions, including the ability to have an open container for every occupant of the car minus the driver. -
Huh; I thought I'd heard of it happening, but it turns out that the only case I can cite was where a drunk passenger tried to grab the wheel.
My wife grew up in Texas, and apparently it was indeed legal as late as the 1990s to have an open container as long as you weren't the driver. Meaning, "aw shit it's the cops, here hold mah beer". -
Squirrel said:
Duty? Yes, but if my bitch of a Principal is any indicator, they won't to keep down their incident records... Second grader brings a knife to school? It's nothing! Don't worry about it.
I'd say it's better than the zero-tolerance trend of "teacher, mom mixed up our lunch bags and I got her paring knife by accident, what should I do?" second graders getting expelled. -
Went to the car dealership. Told the sales manager what we wold pay for the car. He says that's impossible. We say we can get it even cheaper elsewhere, but we're here now, so he gets one more shot. He still says it's impossible. See ya!
25 minutes later he calls my wife, having dredged her cell phone number out of the salesman's call records, and says he's changed his mind and what we suggested is okay after all. Too late. Like we said, cheaper elsewhere, and tomorrow afternoon we'll prove it. Shoulda made the offer while we were still on the lot to accept it.
Although I did kind of want to drive back there in my wife's old beater (which we plan to trade in) instead of my car (which is about as old but still looks good, and which we had arrived in) and tell him that we'd changed our minds and wanted $500 less. -
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So my work had a health screening today and I was super nervous about it. So seems I was right with my fear that my cholesterol would be off the chart, it was just in the opposite direction. Seems it is so low that it doesn't even show up (it had to be <100 to show). They flat out told me I am probably the healthiest person at my work. To celebrate I bought me some Iranian food for lunch.
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After about a year of unemployment I finally got a job again. :)
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Yakov, with as much as you bake, how are you so healthy?
Mike: Congrats! I am coming up on my year anniversary of being laid off, so I understand how you must feel. What sort of job did you get? -
JonBrescia said:
Yakov, with as much as you bake, how are you so healthy?
Other then my baking I tend to eat rather healthy. I also run a lot, so that probably helps. I was fully expecting to walk in and be diagnoses with some combo of space AIDS, Monkey Pox, and Diabetes (I have woken up in a cold sweet before due to nightmares of me getting diabetes) but I am apparently in great shape. This is not something I am use to hearing. -
It's not a great job, it's at Walmart, as a cashier. But it's a paying job, and better than collecting unemployment.
P.S. 16 5 year olds. -
21 little bastards.
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I got 27 five-year-olds - I think the "morality" questions at the end are worth a lot of the score.
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If that many five year olds are trying to take you down then you have to be ruthless. It's them or you.
In reality, I think I could take maybe seven or eight before they started to bog me down with their sheer mass.
Then again, you probably just have to kick a five year old in the stomach once, really hard, and they're out of the fight. So who knows. Just keep kickin'.
