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I got an interesting comment from a person named Sam who visited from the K20 network in Everett about small claims court. He stated: “Given your complete lack of understanding about Washington state law for small claims court, I would tend to believe this whole story is made up.” Believe me when I say this [...]

Over at the Adjunct Project there is an endlessly fascinating data sheet about what it is like to be an Adjunct across the United States right now. If the statistics they are citing are absolutely true, we are looking at about 70% of all teaching positions right now in this nation are filled with Adjuncts. [...]

While I really arrived four days ago, it has been a very busy weekend teaching at the college, and I am now at my first break. Today I will be visiting the 798 Arts District with the camera, and hope to get some really good pictures. Like most international travel there are things you wish [...]

Sometimes you just get an awesome spam message that is too sweet not to pass up. Today I got one that simply rocks. Everything left intact, including typos, formatting, and grammar. Simply brilliant.   Anti-Terrorist and Monetary Crimes Division Fbi Headquarters In Washington, D.C. Federal Bureau Of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover Building 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, [...]

Just some random thoughts on Occupy Seattle for May Day 2012. I have to admit this is the first time that anyone has ever called me an exploitative pig because I was out there taking pictures of the event. But I really seemed to have ticked off one of the members of the group, but [...]

On the Political side of the fence this morning is a report that in the oral arguments before the Supreme Court, The Republicans have posted a video on YouTube, and are airing it on TV that shows Solicitor General Donald Verrilli stumble over words, with the idea that “Obamacare is a hard sell”. Regardless of [...]

Note: This was originally published right here on Techwag in January of 2012. This is a repost due to the move of Techwag from one hosting company to another. This is one of the most difficult blog entries to write, one it is hard to tell the truth, and in some ways I think the [...]

The comic book industry is hard, good times or bad times, the entire industry has crashed and burned so many times there should be a hazard warning out for anyone insane enough to get into this industry. The economic recession of 2008 through today has been very hard on comic book stores as customers stop [...]