Seems to be...link is to a Daily Mail article, and the word "public school" appears nowhere in the article. Instead refers to private, fee-paying versus state/comprehensive.

Exactly. I see people elsewhere talking about how the student should have more integrity. I agree...but only to a point. It's entirely a rational conclusion for the student to see how all the incentives are structured and to decide that this is in their best interest. They may be *wrong* (e.g., they could get a…

Well...maybe. But I know lots of "smart" people who went to good colleges, and I assure you that it's pretty common to use it as a proxy for intelligence, not just an entre into a particular social millieu. In Houston, for example, at Rice University, there is a bumper sticker, "I go to Rice. I must be smart." …

My teacher told me that I shouldn't go to Princeton b/c "I'd be running around with 2000 people just like me". In high school, that sounded like heaven. I ended up getting wait listed, not getting in, and having to choose a different school. It was hell at the time...there was no where else I wanted to go. But she…

Wow. At some point, maybe the college you went to shouldn't matter so much...? It's, at best, a proxy measure for...the things admissions offices look for. Not to be confused with those things themselves. His intelligence is in No Way a function of his alma mater, and she's a fool for even implying otherwise.

How did she see that working out?

I wish this had been more common. Our wedding got cancelled by the venue due to Hurricane Rita. Had to sue the reception hall to get our money back after they cancelled. They claimed act of God, although the hurricane never hit our city. Insurance would have been....much easier.

In May 2002, I was at a bar in Houston when I noticed a host of emergency vehicles at the end of the block. Some weeks later, I learned the story: a freshman architecture student's parents had thrown a party for her and her classmates to celebrate competing what was a grueling year. She was driving three classmates…

I headed off to work on probably a couple of occasions with my kid in the back. Realized it when I turned on the freeway, looked back around...But definitely shook me. A year or two later an infant at my kid's school died in her dad's car. He thought wife had taken her in—she'd put her in his car instead. He found her…

Looked more like skin bag to me.

Minor quibble, but...they don't *have* to intersect at some point. They could be parallel (e.g. Celsius and Kelvin). Or divergent. Or the intersection could be below absolute zero, in which case the intersection would be mathematically real, but physically meaningless.

I didn't think they made Aggies more than one flavor. Tradition, or something....

Well...I'm a developer, and I think you shouldn't seek to learn to code either, but *definitely* seek to learn how programming languages work. I think that's key whether you're planning to make your living writing code, or if you just want to be casually familiar with the concept. If you simply seek to "learn to…

Would you prefer...female rod, perhaps?

Someone, somewhere, is a few fingers shorter....

Yes! We had one when I was a kid, it was always cold in the car, even if the vents were dumping hot air in the foot well. And defrosting? I remember my mom *constantly* having to ice scrape the windows...and not just the outside. Condensation from us warm folk on the inside would leave the windows iced up inside…

Don't feel bad, I didn't recognize him either.

Love it...I'm driving from Houston to Dallas tomorrow, and I was pretty sure I could find something better.

My thought exactly. But..if it's crazy Texas stiff, Billy Bob's will give buc-ee's a run for its money.

I detest Sid the Science Kid. Passionately. He and his friends are The Most Annoying traits of young kids, syndicated for our torture. I don't think I'd survive having a Sid as my kid. If the kids need some science, they can watch some Beakman's World. Sid is not allowed.