Junk 'n' Stuff

This was a small, private school, and there were only two sections of freshman World History, and he taught both of them. He constantly complained that one section was ahead of the other. As the year progressed, the gap between the two sections widened–as midterms approached, one section was in the medieval period and the other was still lagging at the end of the Roman empire.

Both sections were meant to sit the same exam, so he couldn’t just move up the midterm and have one class sit it first. He needed to get both classes into the same time period. 

So for the week before midterms, he hurried the slower class into the middle ages, and went in to depth with the other. He discussed battles in detail, drew regional maps on the white board, and even diagrammed the lineage of the king of Noldor. The class, of course, took diligent notes and asked questions. Everyone wanted to impress him and did their best to learn the material.

During the last class before the midterm, he reviewed the material he’d taught for most of the term, but didn’t touch on any of the things he’d been teaching for the last week. 

Finally, one student asked if any of the stuff he’d been teaching for the last week was going to be on the exam. 

“No,” he said, “The contents of the Silmarillion will not be on the exam.”

There was a moment of silence while everyone sat there, confused. Someone eventually went “…what??”

Mr. Taylor grinned. “Yeah, I needed to keep you guys busy while the other class caught up, so for the last week I’ve just been teaching Lord of the Rings history. I can’t believe none of you noticed. You need to pay more attention to geography.”

1: Bill Gates made his money by extinguishing free software and forcing us to pay him a tax just to turn our computers on. This was only possible because the State was ready to violently enforce his "intellectual property".

He didn't create a computer revolution, he destroyed one.

2: Zuckerberg made his money in the exact same way, of course - by destroying a free social network. A social network was bound to emerge, what Zuckerberg did was prevent it from following open protocols, like email, so just anyone couldn't set up a server to socialize with anyone.

the trucker that delivered our shipment today said he hadn’t even gotten the chance to shop for himself yet cause he had been driving trucks around so much!  I ended up digging thru the pallets I got of product to get him a couple things just so he had SOMETHING for himself I was also telling employees to let me know if they needed anything cause I would set it aside for them

They also have set hard limits on the number of items you can buy. Like, they’re not allowing anyone to buy more than 2 of toilet paper, sanitizer, isopropyl alcohol, latex gloves, etc.. etc.. It’s wild.