This entire situation was lampooned in a great South Park episode:

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155202/new-neighbors

The link should be PG. No swearing or anything. The worst it gets is people smelling their own gas. If that offends, you probably shouldn't watch.

Anyone else think this looks like the Cheat? Well, the Cheat's cousin Harry.

Schools are a place of socialization, or "social engineering" as some people put it. Like it or not, it is where kids learn a lot of their social skills and values. They spend 7-9 hours per day there in heavy social contact, so it's naturally going to happen.

The only problem I have with what the teacher did is that they did not speak with the parents first. As noted, six-year-olds do not pack their own lunches, so excluding kids who had plastic in their lunches was wrong - it was not something the kids had control over. By not talking to the parents first, but making the conditions something that relied on the parents, the teacher was being very passive-aggressive,

Rather, the teacher should have talked to the parents and said that, due to environmental issues, they would appreciate if the parents did not use one-use plastic items when packing their kids' lunches.

But what if the parents refused, for whatever reason? Is it then okay to exclude the child from the drawing because of the parents' choice? Absolutely not! If that were so, it would also be fine to pick on the kid with two moms or two dads - penalizing them for a perceived deficiency in their parents.

Tl/dr - The school shouldn't have done it and, if they tried, they shouldn't have done it that way.

Clearly it's the work of them terrorizers.

"Where's the treasure? This is just some lobster singing about life 'under the sea' or something."

Short - Hip, Hip array, small

Indeed, please do update the main site with plenty of geekiness. I'll miss this blog.

How can you get ahold of the old series? I found some stuff on amazon, but it's horrendously expensive.

Roll SAN.

Hip, Hip Array, Small.

"Still getting that erratic reading in the Charleston subroutine. That's another ten hours of coding."

Hip Hip Array, small.

On the DVD, there's an interview with Ramis where he says that, in the original draft, Murray was supposed to have spent thousands of years trapped on Groundhog Day. However, they scaled it back in the subsequent drafts, but the feeling I got from the interview was that they scaled it back to a hundred or so years; definitely not under ten.