You know, i’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about teaching. I think I would enjoy teaching, not English or Math or whatever, but teaching. Like maybe high school, maybe college. I wouldn’t mind being a teacher, or a professor even. Now, it SOUNDS cool, but what are the ramifications? I wouldn’t probably make as much money, etc, but would the benefits of teaching outweigh it? I’m not entirely sure.

Here’s an idea I had. I would like to attempt to teach a group of high school kids how to do good web development. Perhaps it would be a two-year program, the first year is just basic stuff, and then the second year, we would get a local company to let us do some web development for them, pro-bono (for free, that is). Now, this wouldn’t be your “chalk and talk” class, but a hands-on class where each student has an account on a webserver (Linux, no less, tee-hee) and they could do what they wanted with it (and the lesson plan would involve their own sites). It wouldn’t take that much hardware, as most schools already have a computer lab of some sort, and the server wouldn’t need anything crazy (just like theLocust.org -snooch!)

It’s all just a pipe dream really, but I think optimally i would work for a couple of years, perhaps get my MBA or something, and then try teaching. But IS IT WORTH IT? Could I get the job I wanted? I don’t know. I view the established schools around here as a little stodgy, but anything could happen. Perhaps at Manual? But I’d really like to do it at Eastern, you know. Show that any bunch of kids could do this stuff, as long as they work at it.

Well, what do you think?

Hey all, it’s back to school for me. “But ben! What about work!” you say. Well, i’ll be working, too. Full time. And at school full-time, too. Oh dear! Yeah, well, thanks to the deal I have with Corvus, I can work from home. Whew. It’s gonna be rough, but none of my classes are too terribly crazy.

Anyway, for me birthday (the 18th of August), my good friend hunter, (who, strangely, doesn’t have an account for thelocust.org) has offered to start posting new Revolver columns. The Revolver is a series of posts that Hunter had written to our friend mailing list called appropriately “theList”.
Well, i couldn’t be happier. So, i’ve started to add stuff to the site, like the User Accounts, a User Directory, and soon the ability for users to submit articles to a queue for review by the admin users here. If anyone, ANYONE, ANYONE! has any ideas about what you would like to see on this site, let me know.

Oh, and a word about the focus of this site. Originally, I had set out to make this site like Slashdot or NerdPerfect, and for the most part, it has. However, I knew that most of my friends aren’t too terribly interested what kind of processors Intel will release next or if the new Linux Kernel has been released. However, i do like the way that they are set up, and I haven’t seen any other sites that focus on non-technical stuff.

So! Here is my call to you, gentle reader, to get involved! Make conversation, give us news, drive other people to the site! I REALLY REALLY want to make this site as fun, informative, and user driven as possible.

Thanks