Mental Ramblings of a Euphoric Manic

- Found out that the world of Blogging has just embraced a new member, my AP History Teacher from High School, Ken Foster.

In the world of Cartersville High, Mr. Foster was one of the few breaths of fresh (logical) air that existed in that ridiculous vacuum. I’ll never forget a mini-conversation we had once about how our founding fathers were atheists.
Anyway, Mr. Foster’s blog is here. He’s a bonafide smartypants, so his blog just mostly has his AP History stuff on it. Hopefully he’ll add some enlightening glimpses of his own mental ramblings, should his schedule allow. He’s a pretty busy guy.

http://fostersap.blogspot.com

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- On a related note, a high school blogger also has released the following, typical, Freedom-Of-Speech-Suppressing-Intentions of "The Man" @ Cartersville High:

From:
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=68502745&blogID=156266204

"Tuesday, August 15, 2006

So...Cartersville High School... Current mood: dont know
So umm...the Principal....calls us all down to an assembly...and starts talking to us about nothing.....but then he starts talking to us about how that if we post "bad blogs'...about Cartersville High School..we are gonna get in trouble...so i'd thought i would test him. Cause he's basically saying we dont have freedom of speech..which he is wrong...and im not gonna let some Principal of a High school tell me i dont have that right...i don't see what the big deal is about a blog...i mean..its better than us saying it in school...so...here's the part that we've all been waiting for....CARTERSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL IS THE LAMEST SCHOOL EVER....AND IT SUCKS....i encourage everyone to write a blog about how you feel about cartersville high school...
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- More Reasons To Be Absolutely Thrilled About The Prospect of Leaving My Current Job

On an unrelated note, as I anxiously await for the final word from the company I’ve been interviewing with, my boss just committed a noteworthy, character-glimpsing error into his absolutely insane mind. For the past four hours, he’s been running around talking about this:

"I’ve been noticing something about paper towel dispensers in bathrooms – both at the office and out in public. Have you noticed that the school of thought for stocking the paper towel holder is that you need to cram as much paper towels in there as possible? They think that people will use less if you can’t get very many towels out because they are so tightly jammed in there. What they don’t know is that when you cram the paper towels in there, more come out when you pull for a towel, because the towels need breathing room to expand out of that tightly packed paper towel dispenser. So you end up wasting more paper towels."

I’ve actually heard him go off on this paper-towel-filled-train-of-thought twice today, and I start giggling every time. What a freaking moron. Who actually spends time thinking about how many paper towels are wasted by the inefficiencies committed by the poor hispanic restroom-cleaning lady, of whom actually has 6 kids at home w/ no man?

I feel like I’m in an episode of "Strangers With Candy" or some other equally stupid show on Comedy Central @ Midnight. Or "Adult Swim". I don’t get that show, either.

But the point is this: real people with real concerns don’t mull over the methodology of paper-towel-dispenser-filling. Paper-towel-dispenser methodologies are best suited for Six Sigma practitioners and other manufacturing, quality control aficionados who wear colored belts because they are so good at being perfect and directing others on how to try to be equally perfect. Basically, if you are paying attention to the proper insertion of paper towels, I believe you also should be counting the cogs in the machine go by. In a plant. With no air conditioning.



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