Disjoint and random

Finally, an opportunity to sit down and to collect my thoughts! Lucky you: you get to read my Friday Evening Bullet Post on Disjoint and Random Topics!

• Yet another price drop over at Amazon. Check out the WiFi Kindle with special offers and sponsored screensavers.This unit is $25 less expensive than the regular WiFi Kindlebut going for the discount means that

  "[s]pecial offers and sponsored screensavers [will] display on the Kindle screensaver and on the bottom of the home screen"



• I'm sticking with my full-price WiFi Kindle.



• If you are in the market for a larger display screen, the Kindle DXis today's Deal of the Day - marked down $80. Hurry!



• Last summer, I reviewed Revenge Served Cold.Today I note that it is available in Kindle format.A good read.



• Hmm, I still haven't read the series opener, Piercing the Veil.



• I really should order that.



• So many books, no little time!



• Did I mention that I had downloaded G Norman Lippert's free James Potter series?



• Lippert plays around in Rowling's sandbox for the duration of three full-length novels. The central character is Harry's eldest son, James Sirius Potter. More on these later when I finish volume three and put together a review.



• My computer literacy students had a practice test today. They need to demonstrate their proficiency with Microsoft Office Excel 2007in order to pass next week's exam. The practice test is intended to make the students familiar with the test environment, which is, admittedly, very persnickety. The practice test is just like the actual graded exam. All we do is use different data and reword and mix up the questions.



• Most of the students finished quite quickly today. Oh, wait, allow me to rephrase that: they finished both quickly and accurately. Once they were done, I allowed them to leave. I mean, if they scored 98-100% on the practice test, they've pretty much got the material down.



• One student attempted to escape leave an hour before the end of class. He wasn't the first student to stand up and to collect his things but he is not in the upper 50th percentile of students, if you get my drift.



• Before he got to the door, I checked his score.



• It wasn't there.



• I asked him why he didn't submit his test.



• He said that me he had five questions left and he was going to do them later.



• I told him that he still had an hour of class time left and to sit down and to finish his work.



• Neatnik's Brownie troop is going to see a musical play tonight.



• I hate this musicalwith an intense and undying passion.



• It's the amazingly unavoidable earworm potential.



• Number Guy came to my rescue: he volunteered to escort the Neatnik!

My hero!