Speed Racer tanked at the box office anad critics hated it... But the movie is a joy and beautiful to watch. It is probably my favorite live action anime remake. The Wachowski's did a bang up job on this film. The Fall (2007) with Lee Pace is an amazing film that no one knows about. Trasem made the film outside of hollywood and had a crazy limited release. When I first say this film, I was struck by the beauty and the acting and the Story within a story theme. I immediately rewatched it just to study the beauty and cinematography then looked it up on IMDB to see what awards it had won. It wasn't even nominated for any oscars. If you haven;t seen this, watch it.

Frank's 2,000 Inch TV.

I hope it's like Ryan's WUPHF app. :-)

I'm a teacher. 24/7 is an office hour for me. Even when I am out of school, I receive emails/text about homework from parents and students. I have 125 high school students this year. As the administration pushes us to do more and more so that we can get our state scores up, I am increasingly helping students around the clock. hen I help students I talk them through on how to help them selves... But parents are the worst sometimes. They want justifications on various aspects of school... It is too inconvenient to converse or email during the work day while they are working... The district provides us with an email for the express reason of communicating with parent... If I, as a teacher, only answered these emails during my planning period, I wouldn't be able to do my planning/grading. I would also be given a lower evaluation from administrators and possible be let go if I am "deficient" in my role as an educator. I have to be available forthe students and parents. If I am not, a complaint to the administrator will be a mark against me.... It sucks.

Come on... Where was Japan. I figured they already given robots citizen ship.... 2nd Generation immigrants, No. Robots, yes.

Verison, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I was chosen to be in their survey. Lucky me. I informed them that I have no TV (Haven't since 1984 - Go figure.) I still wanted to take part in the survey since I so use services like netflix, amazon, etc. THey refused to let me be part of their data gathering... The days of regular media are gone. Nielsen refuses to let it go so they can perpetuate the importance of advertisers.

It's good to see Coyboy neal take a spot at the polls. Didn;t vote for him, but it's good to see him.

I wish I could vote for "Spy on the neighbors" and then "Expose toxic waste dumping or similar." Them bastards are poluting my creek!

THere are around 50 million students in the states... 4 Billion dollar initiative would bean about 80 per student. Doled out over three years is around 27 dollars per student. I'm sure that the money will be spread equally among all students. So a small school district like the one in which I work would receive about 27,000 dollars.

To teach programming as a k-12 prograpm will require new teachers as all the current teachers are aready teaching their subjects (6-12).
To teach programming as a K-12 program will either increase the school day's instructional time or decrease from current content.
What will primary teachers do? take a workshop-class on programming? Teachers are already overloaded.

In Illinois, teachers hired withing the last few years now have to teach until they are 67. I am one of the few (only?) in my district that could teach some coding... I actually use RPG Maker in my English classes to teach participatory narrative and scripting... I also help other teachers how to check their email and turn on their computers...

What I'm getting at is the educational system is broken for this kind of thing. THrowing 4 billion dollars to administrators is just going to increase the workload on an already overburdened teaching population.

And getting a programmer to come in and teach is not going to work. To get a programmer who has never had any training in teaching to teach a classroom full of twelve year old kids is going to be "interesting." And why would someone skilled in programming want to teach? It is totally not worth the pay cut... A deian programmer pay is $86K while Median teacher salary is $58K. Maybe I'm wrong. There may be a horde of programmers out there that would teach just for the love of working with children. I'm a teacher after all.