Inexile2002's Journal: Stumble, 6 Year Olds, Adult Students

Whoa, busy month and for for like the first time in weeks I have an afternoon to myself. Going to go see Spider-man 2 which just came out here in Spain and basically just chill out for the rest of the afternoon. Now that I've had Firefox for a while I'm pretty much in love. I can't imagine going back for any reason, although, ironically - /. is the only site that doesn't always display properly. Strange.

Of course, since switching to Firefox I've been using other OS products more too. Thunderbird of course, which is really slick, Azureus which is pretty cool, and Video Lan for my movies. All good. Probably going to switch back to Mandrake, or maybe try out another distro in a couple of months.

One of the extensions I've been playing with lately is something called Stumble Upon. Probably set up by some advertising company and they acknowledge that they're selling aggregate data to advertisers, but they're providing a good product, being honest about what they give to thrid parties, and they let you use the service without asking for any personal information what-so-ever. So I'm willing to live with the trade offs. Anyway, Stumble Upon has made the web fun again. I've found dozens of sites that I would never have seen before if it wasn't for the recommends, and it's amazing how fast it figures out what you want to see. They say it's like channel surfing on the web, and it really is. Highly recommend. (My user ID is Inexile, feel free to add me to your friends list if you like.)

6 year olds. 15 of them for 4 1/2 hours a day. For some reason you'd think I'd be completely worn out by the end of the day, but I'm just not. It's really amazing. They listen to me, they do what I tell them and they remember what I teach them. This teaching thing was really the right move for me. Anyway, work is good, Spain is good and my adult students are all cool. Interesting that one of them seems to want to be an adult student, but we'll see. It's hard to be a geek sometimes, because even when you're sure that a beautiful woman is sending you signals, you can't help but think that it's just wishful thinking on your part. I'll let her come right out and ask me though, it wouldn't do to be right about the wishful thinking and make an ass of myself in front of one of my students. Until then, I can really look forward to Wednesdays and Thursdays. Sigh.