On April Fools Day 2007, my site appeared in black and white and labeled as Scott Bradford’s System 6. This entry now includes the explanation given and a link to the site as it appeared throughout most of the day on April 1:
Roanoke Rain
I drove up Mill Mountain after work late on a Thursday afternoon to stand beneath the Star and look at the city. It had been a hot, sticky day—the kind where a few seconds in the open air left you longing for a nearby pool to dive into—but the view was worth the lingering discomfort. Things were a bit cooler this high above the city anyway. More real. More honest.
Intersanity Foundation Announces ‘Public Schools Watch’
The Intersanity Foundation is proud to announce the launch of a new project, Public Schools Watch, located at http://www.pswatch.org. Public Schools Watch is a user-driven forum web site where parents and students can catalog and discuss the problems and abuses of public schools on a national and local level, beginning with my favorite school system in the world: Fairfax County Public Schools (see Not Affiliated With Chantilly High School).
A Tribute to My Luck [Updated]
Melissa and I have been keeping our eye open for a smallish SUV over the last few weeks to replace our aging Chrysler Cirrus sedan. The SUV would be our secondary vehicle, primarily getting used when we need to haul things (surprisingly often, lately) or in adverse weather conditions where our 2006 Honda Civic, an otherwise excellent car, doesn’t cut it. Over the weekend, while we were in Bedford for Chinese New Year, we were emailing with a dealer in Woodbridge who had a black 2003 Mitsubishi Outlander on the lot for a good price.
Apple CEO Lambasts Teacher Unions
Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc., is a smart man. Single-handedly, he turned Apple from a ‘beleaguered’ corporation on the brink of bankruptcy into one of the most impressive turnaround stories in the history of business. Like many others in the computer industry (including Bill Gates), Jobs has some choice words for our failing education systems. He knows what most intelligent observers of public education know: the unionization of teachers has created an environment where the worst teachers keep teaching and the best ones either avoid entering the profession or burn out and leave it early.
- Apple CEO Lambasts Teacher Unions (AP via Houston Chronicle [no longer available]).
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.