Energize! (and other random thoughts)

It will be a beautiful thing to be sitting in my office in Wisconsin for a morning meeting, have lunch at Cheeseburger in Paradise on Maui, meet with clients in Seattle and be back in Wisconsin for my daughter's volleyball game. Or, clear the driveway of the overnight snow in the morning, ride up Mt. Lemmon over the lunch hour, coast down Haleakala midday, afternoon tea at The Savoy and then the volleyball game. Private jet? No, not fast enough (Or safe enough as you can read below). What we need is a transporter room like they had (have) in Star Trek. Read HERE to see how scientists are getting closer to making, "Beam me up, Scotty!" a reality. Although it does concern me that "entanglement" is one of the three requirements to successful teleportation.

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Go HERE to view some hilarious made-at-home Star Trek knock-offs.

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I've never been a fan of bike racks for cars but the one in the picture below looks interesting. Too bad it comes on a GM. See more about it HERE.

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You've heard about the mid-air collision in Brazil where a private jet clipped a commercial airliner and 155 people died? Read a harrowing first-person account written by a guy that was on-board the private jet, HERE. Make note that he observes the altimeter at 37,000 feet just prior to the collision. Then read this short article HERE which suggests that the private jet should have been at 36,000 feet. It will be interesting to see if the author of the first article decides to change his mind regarding what he observed.

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Edmond Bielarczyk, Jr., you are an idiot. It's dickheads like you that lead to trouble for the rest of us. Who is this Mr. Bielarcyzk, you ask? He is the lead arbitrator in a case in my hometown in which a school teacher was fired for viewing and downloading porn on his classroom computer, during school hours. The teacher, Robert Zellner, was appropriately fired. But as usual, Zellner, along with the boneheaded WI Teachers' Union who will back any teacher no matter the issue at hand, fought to have the firing reversed. Read the article HERE.

They found a friend in Mr. Bielarczyk who, in his ruling reinstating Zellner, stated that the school district failed to have a clear policy for computer misuse. His brilliant example? Shouldn't looking at stock prices on a school computer have the same penalty as looking at porn? See, he's an idiot. I don't care if he thinks that a "computer misuse" policy should be uniformly enforced or that a policy should clearly identify just how many porn sites visited or images viewed would result in termination. That might sound good in an ivory tower but anyone with 46 ounces of grey matter knows that a quick check of your stock portfolio at work isn't a termination offense and looking at porn is. It's quite simple. Especially when the offender is a school teacher and is viewing porn with children in the room.

Zeroing in on the technical gobbledygook instead of worrying about the safety and well-being of our children should itself be cause for termination. But as a State employee, Mr. Bielarczyk will instead enjoy a lifetime of great pay, great benefits and a rich retirement package. No matter how poorly he performs or who gets hurt as a result of it.

The result of Mr. Bielarczyk's idiotic ruling? Parents are refusing to allow their children to be in classes run by Zellner (do you blame them?). And in reaction, the school board is now negotiating a settlement with Zellner. So here's a pervert who's looking at porn on his school computer while our young girls are right in front of him, and he's going to get a huge check as a reward thanks to morons like Bielarczyk. Will anyone be surprised if in a few years we hear that Robert Zellner is being charged with inappropriate contact with one of his students at a different school that will happily hire him because, after all, he wasn't convicted of anything? Ay, carumba!

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Speaking of idiots, take a look at THIS video.