Comped Compy.

When I was little, my dad would come home from his fancy-pants doctor's conference with bags full of goodies that pharmaceutical and insurance companies would shower upon the attending doctors. These goodies included mountains of pens, notepads, band-aids, desk blotters, calendars, CDs, and a random assortment of things. Of course, all of the goodies would have the company's name written all over it -- once I walked through an airport before realizing that the bag I was using had "Vagisil" written in large letters across it and once I even went to school with a pencil pouch from a company that made hemmoroid cream. Still, it was worth the oodles of good stuff. The reason I bring this up now, is because my dad was given a free computer this week...like, a real Dell computer with a real flat-panel display. Also, multiple gigahertzes (spelling?) on a Pentium 4 processor. Oh, and a new laser printer.

Do you think they give these kinds of goodies to poverty-stricken elementary school teachers? Only time will tell.