Dan Bornstein

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Yes, that sounds pretty distracting. In fact, I would say if a driver making his way down the Strip was watching a DVD of Wall-E on a television screen that covered his entire windshield while simultaneously breaking up with his girlfriend via text message and solving a complex math problem on an abacus he would be only 76% as distracted as if he was watching the stripper-mobile wend its way through Sin City. Imagine seeing the Pope-mobile driving down the road, only the Pope was stripping in it. That's the level of distraction we're dealing with it.

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• 14:50 It would seem that blackface is the new black. #

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• 15:57 A neat tool to explore how not everyone has felt the recession equally: The Jobless Rate for People Like You - bit.ly/1C9YKp #
• 21:20 Just when I thought I couldn't find a reason to hate EQCA more, they sink to a new low: firing a woman of color with cancer. #

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DNA Lounge update, wherein the axe falls.

On Sunday, I attended a martial arts demo and fundraising event at Mills College to celebrate Fukuda Sensei, the highest-ranking female judo master in the world, and to help raise money for the documentary being made about her. At 96, she still teaches classes in San Francisco. Here's a clip of the film.



ETA: You can donate here, the site of the filmmaker Yuriko Gamo Romer: http://flyingcarp.net/.

Kid: Hey, are you the science lady?
Me: Um, yes, I guess so.
Kid: Well, I think you should change some things about the science unit. You should make it more challenging.
Me: Okay. What specifically would you like to be more challenging?
Kid: Well, you know all that stuff about how the Earth spins? We already know that. I think that the first part of this unit is boring for like 70 or 80% of kids. Kids my age already know that the Earth spins and what shape the Earth is and all that. If I were you, I'd start with years instead of days and talk about how planets go around the Sun. That's much more challenging. I think that would be more appropriate for fifth graders.
Me: Well, thank you for your suggestions. I'll see what I can do.



We're not changing it, obviously (that kid probably knows these things because he lives in California, where they study days and seasons in fourth grade), but hey, at least someone's honest.

okay, i've heard enough people rant about how great last night was that i've decided to pay the whopping sum necessary to go see the pixies tonight. it appears to be sold out, however there are a veritable plethora of people selling tickets at face value on CL.

have any of you who went the prior two nights observed people selling tickets outside at sane prices or anything, thus saving me an annoying trip down to whereever for a dubious CL deal?

also, msjen, i am totally sorry i flaked on buying yours for yesterday. my night got all screwy and i couldn't go. blek.

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• 00:21 I could watch capoeiristas play forever. #

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