Colorado Springs School Bans Tag on Playground,

From Fox News this morning.

Submitted here without comment, mainly because I can't post a video of my head shaking in disgust.

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Colorado Springs School Bans Tag on Playground, Citing Conflicts

Thursday, August 30, 2007

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — An elementary school has banned tag on its playground after some children complained they were harassed or chased against their will.

"It causes a lot of conflict on the playground," said Cindy Fesgen, assistant principal of the Discovery Canyon Campus school.

Running games are still allowed as long as students don't chase each other, she said.

Fesgen said two parents complained to her about the ban but most parents and children didn't object.

In 2005, two elementary schools in the nearby Falcon School District did away with tag and similar games in favor of alternatives with less physical contact. School officials said the move encouraged more students to play games and helped reduce playground squabbles.

I'm tellin' ya, it's the shoes

Okay, it's not a huge breakout move, but I'll take it.

Ruby Sneakers

It's got to be the new Mizuno Wave Riders. After 2 weeks of painful running with no gains in speed or distance, I flew past the old record.

"Tomer" Simpson

Yes, I did go to see The Simpson's Movie. Why do you ask?

More to the point, one of my friends turned me onto www.simpsonizeme.com, a marketing site with a Simpsons and Burger King (Home of the Whopper) tie-in. You upload a picture and the "simpsonizer" scans it for facial characteristics and creates a Simpsonized likeness. I suspect that instead of creating something, it matches your pic up to one of many templates, to which you can make small customized changes.

Accordingly, I decided to post some pictures of my family. Above is my lovely wife of 17 long, long, wonderful years...
And my daughter, who has just discovered the online world and is now glued to the PC more than her father.



And this scruffy dude would be my son, who complained that I hadn't done his pic when I first posted.

Still working

One of the only drawbridges left in Connecticut.

Mystic Seaport

This is a shot of the Charles W. Morgan Joseph Conrad, apparently masquerading as the Charles W. Morgan.