CourtneyP

A recent thread on Plastic addresses the apparent rabid political-correctness of a Colorado middle school, and most likely, in schools natiionwide.

The issue? A young boy used the word “Gay” as a negative term in response to a call he disagreed with while playing four-square.

Kids still play four-square?

In all seriousness, is thins kind of language harmful to kids, or are we just overreacting? On one hand, I think that it was a bit extreme to suspend the boy. On the other hand, I think that it is a bit extreme for the boy’s parents to bring lawyers into the picture.
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Why is it, when another filipina spots me in the wild, she will approach me and ask: “Are you Filipina?”

Not that I mind so much that they ask, but it happens time after time after time… almost always followed by: “Do you speak Tagalog?” (said in either English or Tagalog)

When I answer “No, sorry”, their response is an “Oh…” followed by a turning away of their head, or bowing their head. Kinda like I was suddenly cursed. This happened to me this afternoon.

I had yet another interesting encounter earlier today on our cross street, some random dude slowed down his car next to me and asked if I spoke Spanish. I do, a little, but I said “no, not really”.

He had the same look of disappointment, and said, “oh, never mind…”

I asked him if I could help him with anything, and he got all flustered, started driving away slowly, and was shaking his outstretched palm, still chanting, “never mind, never mind…”

I guess I’m missing out on some sort of secret camraderie by not speaking foreign languages well…

more rain. it always seems to come on the weekends, and that just bites.

so much for the cherry blossom festival events this weekend!

tonight, we have our usual poker night, but I guess for the meantime, we’re confined to indoor spaces… which usually means cleaning house or napping. I prefer the latter, of course. Maybe I’ll play more Tropico to get my dose of computer-generated tropical weather. Heh.

what do you do on your rainy days?

I visited my family yesterday after work, since this particular job is in the East Bay. It’s pretty nice to get to see them on a regular basis… sure beats being three thousand miles away, that’s for sure.

I did get to see my brother’s new Windows box, which is pretty sweet. It was about darned time that they upgraded, because my family usually waits at least 5 years before upgrading. The horror! It certainly made him pretty happy, especially since it resides in his room.

When I went to take a look at it, he was playing Command and Conquer Generals. This was basically my first look at the game in play. It made me gripe again about the a big issue I have with the mac platform… we have an extreme lack of games available for our platform. Bah. What to do?

Well, at least we have a windows machine here that is used solely for gaming. But I think it’s due for an upgrade or two.

*sigh* I’ll just go play Tropico for a little while…

geeky chick strikes the web again!

My latest design endeavor is a collaboration with Lockergnome. It was a particularly interesting project for me, since it deals with the Windows side of things, whilst I’m a primarily Mac chick.

But nonetheless, it’s a site with good ideas and pointers great stuff for you to download.

Please check out Windows File of the Day! Return and share your thoughts if you like… don’t worry, I’ll wait right here.

Fear not, the Mac version is soon to come! Thanks to Jake and Chris for giving me the chance to work on such a project.