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It’s that time of year again, when the frost is melting and a young man’s thoughts turn to romance. When the birds are chirping and woodland creatures are emerging from their winter slumber. It’s also a time when Beaumont ISD is up to no good, but that’s really less to do with Spring and more to do with it just being a...
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The closing of LucasArts this week has affected me far more than it should have. After all, it’s just a game studio…and one that hasn’t produced anything of note in years. Still, the impact that Lucasfilm Games (later to become LucasArts) had on me in my formative years is not something I can easily dismiss. In fact, it even...
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So the Beaumont Independent School District is up to its old tricks again. Or some of its board members are, at least. Or maybe just the district’s attorney. Basically, it’s a giant game of, “Did I do that?” but with elections and finger pointing and just a little whining. Ok, a lot of whining.
Anyway, it’s not...
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Imagine a world where Steve Wozniak invented the first Apple while he was in high school. (Yes, I know he didn’t. But just play along.) Or how about a world where Mark Zukerberg developed Facebook in his off period between Home Economics and Gym class. (Again, just play along.) Now, imagine a world where the school district owned their...
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A long time ago (a few weeks) in a galaxy far, far away (Austin, TX), the Rebel Alliance (the Texas Education Agency) took an interest in the goings-on of the evil Galactic Empire (Beaumont ISD). So, they recorded a hologram (wrote a letter) and sent a small R2 unit to the Legislative Budget Board, asking it to conduct a comprehensive review of the district. As part of this review, the LBB asked the district to survey BISD stakeholders to...
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If you’re the type of adult who would strip all belief in magic & wonder from a child, you’re a vile bastard and no one should ever love you. I tweeted that the other night, after Trey let me know that someone told him Sesame Street is for babies, and that the characters are just puppets. I guess by itself, that’s not entirely a bad thing. I mean, Trey is six years old now and it’s probably time to put...
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Texas school principal shuts down entire cosmetology course to keep a gay man from taking it. Yep, everything is bigger in Texas. Even the bigotry. —- Click here to learn how you can help Jump to updates: Update #1 Update #2 Update #3 Update #4 Update #5 In case you live under a rock, or just someplace more enlightened than the backwoods armpit of America I call home, you might not be aware of what I’m going to talk about today....
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New Orleans. City of southern dreams. The Big Easy. The nightmarish land of loneliness and regret. Take your pick. As you may have noticed, I’ve been absent for the past couple of months. At first, this was due to a lack of interest in the gaming series I was writing, but quickly became about just not having the time to sit down and string a few predicates and participles together. My new job is great, but it’s fairly...
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Welcome to Chapter Two of Life Bytes. I’m not entirely sure why I’m calling these things chapters when they’re really just a series of blog entries, but I am. So deal with it. Anyway, continuing with the ‘if this was all a novel’ theme, click here for the back-of-the-book description of what this particular bit of insanity is about, or skip ahead and click here to jump straight into Chapter One. The choice,...
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If you missed the introduction to all this and have no idea what the hell is going on, there’s a brief prologue sort of thing over here. I know I promised to start this series last week, but Major Life Developments happened of the sort that require significant life changes and a much-need boost to my salary. But more on all that later. Right now, lets get down to Life Bytes. In The Beginning… I missed the first generation of...
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Kristian Bland
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I'm a former Webmaster turned Journalist turned Systems Administrator. I once thought I could recreate Spider-Man's web fluid, but only ended up staining the driveway of my friend's parents when some of it spilled out and went runny. Eventually, I became a caustic tech geek, which I'm pretty sure inspired the character of Dr. Gregory House, although the bastards never credited me. Later in life, I'd go on to have a horrific experience in publishing that I don't talk about, except to talk about how I don't talk about it. Later still, I became a web editor and columnist for a Hearst newspaper, where I excelled at being Me until my entire department was unceremoniously laid off. After that, I spent about six months being pretty busy not being busy. It sucked. Then, after missing the light of my radiant glory casting its warmth upon the newsroom for long enough, the paper called me up and asked me back. So I went back. And then I left again. And here we are.
