In the most recent issue of my Cornell Alumni Magazine, an article about Helicopter parents not detaching from their children even during university years. This reminds me of a recent discussion Sarita and I had at dinner with a friend of ours who is a teacher. She recounts tales of parents checking students grades online (yes, parents can now view their son’s/daughter’s grades online shortly after they enter the grade book) and calling immediately to question our friend’s determination of a grade. I remember students in my class whom I thought had overbearing parents, but nothing like this; mostly I saw the behavior when it came time to find apartments for the following school year.
The glimmer of hope is that the University, instead of sticking its head in the sand and hoping the parents go away, is examining a role for a parent liaison to help learn together the right relationship between parent, child, and child’s life.
Archive for May, 2007
Helicopter Parents
May 27th, 2007OMG
May 25th, 2007Those annoying commercials where the daughter speaks to her mom in txt speak (OMG – Oh My Gosh) are stuck in my head, but that’s immediately what I thought when I saw this:
Guitar Hero Rocks the 80’s! Sign me up!
Adding Sense
May 21st, 2007You may notice from time to time some Google advertisements now appearing on the site. This is not an indication that Sarita and I are poor and need the $0.25 cents that a click on the ad returns, it’s merely a test for me to see what kind of ads appear within the content on this site. The Google Adsense program is quite ingenius, web-site owners essentially lease their space for Google to place contextually relevent ads on the site. There are literally millions of websites with these ads so then Google can sell words like “Pet Food” or “Blue State” to advertisers who wish to find people interested in pet food or democratic states and offer them products or services or just plain information based upon those words.
Example: On Sarita-Andy.com frequently I frequently talk about new products that Sarita and I purchase (for instance my Logitech Harmony Remote). Google seeing those words might decide Sarita-Andy.com would be a good place to place an ad for electronics. Logitech may be looking for places besides its own website to advertise a new version of the Logitech Harmony Remote. Google then facilitates the sale of advertising space for Logitech on my website; though I don’t ever really need to think about who/what is being advertised (Google does not allow adult or obscene type of advertising, but even if they did my content isn’t about adult or obscene things the ads wouldn’t show up, so I’m generally comfortable that unwanted ads won’t be displayed on the site).
Pretty Cool huh?
Redonkulous
May 8th, 2007Thanks Mark for sharing
Looks like I can’t embed this video, try watching it on YouTube.com; it’s a guy doing a flip in a wheelchair.
A Cast of Stars
May 5th, 2007I’ve been listening to a new radio station in Cincinnati, The Sound, for a while and they’ve played the song God’s Gonna Cut You Down by Johnny Cash a few times. It’s haunted me because I knew I recognized the lyrics from somewhere; especially the “Go tell that long tongued liar” one. Well thanks to Wikipedia, I figured out this song has been sung many times under a different name Run On, which is how I recognize the song from Moby’s Play album which I’ve listened to many times (it’s one of my favorite albums). Now I can finally sleep 
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4 years ago today
May 1st, 20074 years ago today, it was 23 years since my mom went into labor and 22 years, 364 days, 23 hours, and 41 minutes since I was born. In the past 4 years, I’ve run 2 half marathons, met and married the girl of my dreams, purchased and sold a house, and remembered the 15th anniversary of my dad’s passing.
