so this is what happens when kids finish their tough freshman year at one of the country's toughest academic high schools (Lowell HS in SF, in this case)? in Trev's case, it was clearly an explosion of humor and web-based wit, something his ultra-challenging schoolyear didn't allow much of. so what if I was the target of the parody? i feel honored, in fact. hehehe.

i'm talking about The Free Rascal, a hilarious send-up and parody of my Free Radical locus. or "LOCUST," according to Trev, whose droll, witty, and wicked sense of humor never fails to make me laugh. but warning ahead: stuff i purportedly say, as quoted on Trev's locust site, is clearly taken out of context... WAAAY out of context. lol. you can see the rascal himself, hiding under the bridge in the artistically touched-up picture above. (full page version on this link.) those Internet Classroom classmates of Trev's with good visual memories (Eric? David? Daniel? Anna?) will recognize this set of images as taken from TIC 1998, on one of our afternoon walks to nearby Strawberry Creek.

there'll be more of this picture-taking stuff this summer, as (a) i have a really good digital camera (a current model of the outstanding Olympus digicams) and (b) lots of TA help to herd the masses outside for a walk, or a breaktime game of frisbee or something. TAs: your job, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with physical diversions so that our students this summer won't be pale, wan and with skeletons like jelly, after spending all that time in the lab for the six weeks. and yes, that includes you too. ;-)

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