Super Teachers
First month of Kindergarten, kid gets ESOL recommendation after an assessment, which we chose to decline, knowing his vocabulary.
This week they send us a Gifted Student program assessment request after a teacher referral.
Can’t be sure as to which assessment to believe if this is their spread. Either that or they have so much confidence in their own staff to have made that progress.
MIKE ATHERTON: No fast bowler will take more wickets than James Anderson
The Mystery of New Zealand’s Tamil Bell, an Archaeological ‘UFO’
The Silicon Valley Loop - Here, Icarus dusts himself off and pivots to zeppelins.
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Got cold called by Turito, who are apparently a YuppTV education arm. The guy quoted a YuppTV cricket subscription package from 2016.
It took 4 phlebotomists, 3 pokes, two arms and 1.5 hours to get a bag of blood from my donation attempt.
I’m gonna need to find other ways of volunteering in the future.
“Appa we made a gratitude quilt today at school!”
“What are you grateful about?”
“TV. Today is Friday.”
“Appa doesn’t know mathematics” says the genius who calls the less than symbol crocodile to the right.
Tired
New Years’ was spent driving to the emergency vet. At that point, we weren’t sure if it was GI or Respiratory, but Boksira started showing symptoms of a very aggressive case of kennel cough / she had swallowed something she shouldn’t have, the day after we picked her up from the PetSmart boarding.
The techs suggested I have her in the car not to infect the other pets. We went in for the radiology exam, but the ordeal took us 3 hours. The diagnosis ended up being both suspicions.
This was her at the end, tired and scared, not willing to move from below the passenger seat.
The Beginning of It All
Humanity fantasizes about the notion of pure innocence, yet the loss of such innocence is essential for survival and progression. In all that we strive for during our lives, the aim is survival, but the yearning is always to return to a state of peace, a peace attained on returning to such innocence.
Religion and Nations and Corporations are today's arbiters of that promise, ones that have learned to package and market that need. In another time, it might have just been some tribes or civilizations. At another time, it might have been some variants of the early modern humans and primates—another time... as one would continue to go back down the path of evolution.
The first two entities that learnt (by design) or exhibited (by randomness) the behavior to relate with another, to not distrust and kill it at sight, but instead to observe and learn the other's behavior, prioritize and market what they bring to the table, to make it seem like a beneficial situation for the both of us, the negotiation and skill to co-operate on the definition.
The beauty of it all, to witness it happen, discover the meaning of it, the beginning of it all.
This was written as an attempt at beginning to write fiction. I’ve realized most of my personal writing now is a description of things as they’ve occurred to me and how I’ve felt about it, either in the moment or in retrospect. I want to change that this year.
Strava Retro 2022
The only retrospective that I was interested in this year and the only one that did it right by waiting for the year to end.
Strange that all data from the month in India is missing. Not that there was much walking there anyway. The plan for 2023 is to double the distance, at least. Stretch goal - 2023 miles.