From renegade500: Florida teacher fired for using "wizardry." He did a sleight of hand magic trick for the kids.

I guess he's lucky they didn't burn him at the stake.


I had an absolutely fabulous day yesterday involving an exploding transformer somewhere nearby in the neighborhood and no power through most of the afternoon. It had been raining all day, so the house was very dark, gloomy, and mostly inactive. About the only thing that was working were the fancy imitation faux-old-timey phones, which under these circumstances sure do make up for their lack of features. I decided to conserve the laptop battery for emergencies (rather than use it to stare at the not-working router or admire my collection of downloaded Joe Flanigan jpgs) and did some writing on paper and reading. I also spent some quality time brushing the cats. About the time I was trying to decide if using the fireplace to heat water for tea on a warm humid day was a crazy idea, the power came back on.