One failed attempt at a shoe bomb and we all have to take off our shoes at the airport. Thirty one school shootings since Columbine and no change in the regulation of guns.
Source: commondreams.org
With Sarah (wearing her “Sherlock” hat) as we prepare to watch Star Trek Into Darkness.
Butler has uploaded a video of my commencement address to the class of 2013, which one can’t help but notice…is longer than the 12 minutes I so confidently promised. I sort of quit working the last month and did nothing but write this speech, and I couldn’t even get the time right. (I guess I read a lot faster alone in my basement.)
SORRY!
I’d like to thank everyone who’s shared the speech, especially the Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Galleycat, and Entertainment Weekly.
If you’d prefer to read the speech, you can do so here.
This is so thoughtful & touching. I commend you, John!
Hannah & I attend Sarah’s end-of-year band concert.
It’s a nice May evening on the grass of Walnut Springs MS.
Shall. We. Begin?
npr:
Perhaps you’ve noticed a toddler’s sagging swim diaper and wondered if it’s really keeping the poop out of your neighborhood pool.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has the answer for you: no.
Last summer, researchers at the federal public health agency collected 161 filter samples from public swimming pools in the Atlanta area. More than half of those samples, 58 percent, were contaminated with E. coli.
That, the CDC reported today, “signifies that swimmers introduced fecal matter into pool water.”
— Everybody In The Pool! But Please Leave The Poop Behind : Shots - Health News
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John Green's tumblr: The Commencement Address
Some people have asked to read the commencement address I delivered this morning to the 2013 graduates of Butler University. So here it is.
My own commencement speaker, who shall remain nameless, began with a lame joke about how these speeches only come in two varieties: Short and bad. This…
My favorite part of his address:
“I would encourage you as often as possible to consider the Happy Birthday Sir Despite the Circumstances possibility, the possibility that the lives and experiences of others are as complex and unpredictable as your own, that other people—be they family or strangers, near or far—are not simply one thing or the other—not simply good or evil or wise or ignorant—but that they like you contain multitudes, to borrow a phrase from the great Walt Whitman.”
game over
AMAZING GIRL IN THE BACKGROUND!
Source: 4gifs
Awards ceremony music WTF?
At the State Science Day—
1. Aaron Copeland, Fanfare for the Common Man
2. Miley Cyrus, Party in the U.S.A. (Piano version)
3. Justin Bieber, Baby (Instrumental version)
4. Michael Jackson, Man in the Mirror (Orchestral version)
I shit you not.
Watch Your Step
As we are waiting out the judging period before lunch, A.’s grandmother and I looked for the Science Day t-shirts we bought.
Turns out the vouchers were with kids—underway in judging space. But only separated by a thin curtain. And the judging had only just started.
So we whispered at them for the voucher forms, briefly said hi, got warned off by an event volunteer (a judge might DQ the girls if they saw us!), and got the shirts anyway.
The most exciting part of the morning so far.
Is there a better book to read during a day of waiting, waiting, waiting?
I think not.
The view from tOSU St. John’s Arena, where I’ll spend much of today waiting. (Sarah & Alayna are competing in the State Science Fair today over at Hanner Field House.)
These are the judges getting the pre-morning briefing.
Clearly, the only way to get my oldest child to 1. Listen to me and 2. Absorb what I’m saying is to make a video and stream it at her.
Happy Friday morning
And for your listening pleasure, how about some of Aqualung’s “Living in the Past.”
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