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Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:19:43 -0700

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Yesterday, my son came home from high school and he did what he always does. The routine each day after school is for him and me to go, through his day, recounting what he did in his classes. When he got to his Engineering class, he mentioned something odd in the instruction that his teacher gave in regard to how my son's class should interact via Internet (Skype) with students from another District 211 high school, Conant H.S., with whom they are collaborating on a major project. His class was told to be careful how they interacted with the Conant High School kids who were just returning to school after the weekend in which they learned that a senior Conant girl and her family had been brutally stabbed by the girl's older sister's boyfriend.
I've been out on the loop on local news and had missed the story but my son had printed out a couple of articles off the nets before leaving school yesterday and I read the story with great sadness. The sadness turn to anger however when I read that already the perpetrator's court-appointed lawyer was "spinning" his client's tale of woe--child welfare case messed up in the system.
Take a look at a snap of the man that stabbed an, entire family. For one thing he's not a child, he's 20 y.o.--old enough to have made the choice not to stab an entire family because you were pissed at the world.

Does he look like he's really suffering or demented (this is a mug shot from another crime of his)?
My younger son has construed a general notion of what would be his ideal of a justice system that works. He calls it the "iron fist" justice system though he doesn't have all the details worked out--much would have to change. Broadly speaking, we stop going all soft on violent offenders. Ultimately, garbage like the person who essentially killed a whole family would be tossed.
I'm also mad at the sister who had a kid with this guy, a convicted, violent sexual predictor. I know she'll feel bad that she is ultimately the reason why that man was anywhere near her family. I'm just really mad and I can't even blog openly about my feelings about how society makes excuses for the "D'Andre Howards" of the world. A thug is a thug and as such is a threat to society.
It's now up to the only physically unscathed member of this family besides older sis with the murderous bf, the guy in the photo, age 20 that sort of looks like Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters circa his Nirvana era. He was at a good university, editor of the college paper, finishing out his junior year when he was informed on his family's demise. Now he gets to cope with this and hope his mom pulls through all right. Otherwise, he's left only with his dumbass sister who brought the documented convicted felon into her bed, ultimately sending their dad, little sister, and grandmother to their graves.
I'm really angry. And sad.

From the Chicago Sun-Times
Before going to the Hoffman Estates home where he allegedly stabbed three people to death, 20-year-old D’Andre Howard went to the suburb’s police station, authorities said Monday.
Howard was arrested early Friday on a traffic warrant

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Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:22:37 -0700

Love it or hate it, many of you lost an hour of sleep last night due to Daylight Saving Time? Worth It? Do you like it more/less now that Daylight Saving Time occurs earlier (and later) in the year?
Geez, three questions and I'm sleep deprived. You have no mercy, QotD. None.
No I don't like changing time. Just going through the house changing� the clocks makes me dislike it, nevermind how disruptive it is. And it doesn't* save any energy!
Let's just pick a time and stay with it. Kthx.

*It's official: Daylight Saving Time is a bust. Designed (and recently extended) as a measure to save energy in a period of inflated electricity prices, an in-depth University of California study has now shown that DST doesn't save anyone any money at all. In fact, it's costing consumers extra, to the tune of $3.19 in extra utility bills per year.

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Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:20:41 -0700

From one of my websites: http://www.cyncity.typepad.com "Millennium Park Progression"

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Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:57:13 -0700

Which, ahem, "internets" clich�s do you wish would go away already?

Just one. The clich� that Internet communication is "just words."
Anyone who persists in saying that has got their head ~~up their~~... in the sand.
These mere words are becoming ever more the way people with access to the technology communicate.
Not just on the traditional Internet--texting among an ever-larger segment of the public has taken the place of spoken communication and it's highly unlikely IMO, that we will revert back to the old school talking on the phone. Why? For one, we are enamoured of multitasking. So for example, I can be in a meeting or in a class and be "working" yet at the same time texting whomever. That's not Internet communication per se but Internet communication has helped fuel it and reinforces it by just what I'm doing this moment. I'm not speaking with "you" I'm sitting at this Internet platform called StumbleUpon and I'm typing words. They may not be of grave importance but neither is 99% of what we say.
So if I hear (read) one more time that the Internet is "just words," I shall scream (use ALL CAPS).

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Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:15:21 -0700

Apologies to lowerclassbrats and euneirophrenia. I really like your blogs but I've not been able to add the thumbs-up icon.

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Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:12:25 -0700

I'm sorry that I've not been active much in June. June is the--sorry for using this word--busiest month of the year for me.
SU is an incredible fountain of goodies in lusciously diverse packages. I hope to give it the time it deserves--as time allows.
*smooches*

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Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:24:16 -0700

Found at http://carouselle.stumbleupon.com/

Save the Vowels! Yes!

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Mon, 04 Jun 2007 02:10:00 -0700

Mies van der Rohe~ Lobby of Lake Shore Drive Apartments, Chicago--another reason why I love this town!

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Thu, 31 May 2007 20:12:15 -0700

Your Brain is Green

Of all the brain types, yours has the most balance.

You are able to see all sides to most problems and are a good problem solver.

You need time to work out your thoughts, but you don't get stuck in bad thinking patterns.

You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about the future, philosophy, and relationships (both personal and intellectual).

What Color Is Your Brain?