Hallelujah! You can get MacGyver on DVD from Amazon. Series 1, 2 & 3 are out, and series 4 comes out this month.

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I came across this editorial about the female bonding ritual of 'who would you do?'. It basically involves assessing how keen we are to shag someone. The criteria can sometimes be purely based on physical attractiveness, but can sometimes be tempered by other considerations ("Tom Cruise is hot, but he's just too weird with all that Scientology stuff", "Damn, he's married with four kids").

I was part of a panel presentation today on teaching portfolios. A teaching portfolio is basically a comprehensive record of your teaching career. It usually includes some commentary from you about how you feel about teaching and what you do as a teacher, as well as evidence of your teaching practice.

Today I was part of a panel presentation on teaching portfolios. One of the analogies I used was that of a course being like a journey, and I created this slide to illustrate my point:

I am pretty convinced that I understand OO programming with Java pretty well. I even think I have a pretty good grasp on most common programming design patterns. You'd think that I'd find reading an introductory book on those topics to be pretty dry and boring, right? Not these books.

The universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. The story of its creation has been handed down through generations and written down in books.

Warning! Do not view these while drinking anything. Doing so may cause you to snort liquid all over your keyboard and monitor.

Can you remember when you didn't know how to install a PCI card in a computer?

Funny message in a clothing label.