This compilation of ludicrous answers on television game shows had us laughing. Our favorite: “Name something you wouldn’t want the police to find in the trunk of your car.” “Pickles.”
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This compilation of ludicrous answers on television game shows had us laughing. Our favorite: “Name something you wouldn’t want the police to find in the trunk of your car.” “Pickles.”
A reminder to all you bloggers out there, from Michael Bates: “If you must take your Blogger blog down, please, please don’t delete the blog! Backup the content and then delete all the entries, but keep control of the blog as a placeholder. There are unscrupulous spammers (I repeat myself) who will grab the URLs of highly-linked blogs and use that high page rank to promote whatever it is they’re trying to promote.”
I would also add that the same truism holds for all domains, not just blogspot subdomains. If you discontinue your site, and let the domain registration expire, porn merchants are waiting to snap it up.
Willikers. The New York Times is reporting, right on page one and everything, that Saddam Hussein really had a nuclear weapons program after all! I bet they feel kind of silly for saying he didn’t all these years. A full retraction is no doubt being penned right now.
Most Americans will feel righteous outrage, and call for heads to roll. But in light of their belated yet welcome admission of guilt, we recommend leniency for the Times editors, and for their accomplices in spreading the whole “Bush Lied” slander, Joe Wilson and David Corn and the rest. We would rather see them rehabilitated than pilloried. A slap on the wrist and deportation should be adequate punishment.
During the night, a mysterious benefactor showered the town of Boone, Colorado, with hundreds of pumpkins. I can think of at least three horror movies that started this way.
From the front page of the Sulphur Times-Democrat: “Wrong Turn Sends Cross-Country Walker Into Sulphur … A wrong turn at Davis sent a New England man, who is currently on a mission to walk across America, into Sulphur last week.” Jesse Whitecrow, who started walking in Maine 14 months ago, hopes to reach Alaska, eventually. We hope he enjoys his time in Oklahoma.
Most of your search engine companies are competing by making their programming ever smarter. Microsoft is bucking that trend, and going the other direction. Via Charles, I found “Ms. Dewey,” quite possibly the dumbest search engine in history. The hostess, played by actress Janina Gavankar, is cute (though not as cute as she was in Cup of My Blood). But her jokes are rude and unfunny, and she takes forever to deliver a meager three web page results for whatever you searched for. (She does come alive if you search for “Janina Gavankar,” I’ve discovered.)
Just until Sean gets back to this one, I’m blogging over here.
Breaking hiatus to spread this link - please click through and read it, and watch the video. http://www.autismvox.com/3-hours-in-a-concrete-room/
Sean showed me a layout today for the new blog. Soon!
Tagged by Retired Waif. Apparently all I need is a little meme-generated guilt to start blogging again. No comments though. because I just. can’t. take. the. SPAM. 1. Let others know who tagged you. 2. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves. 3. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts. 4. Players [...]
I’m overwhelmed with spam comments. I won’t be posting for a while while Sean gets the blog reorganized. In the meantime, if you want to tell me something, anything really, email me - link at left. I’m going to be keeping a Flickr going for a bit, if you’d like to check in there from time [...]
A few months back, there was a stir in the news over a little girl named Ashley who is profoundly physically disabled by cerebral palsy. Her parents had her sterilized and her growth permanently attenuated through hormone treatment at age 6. Here’s wikipedia for background on the “Ashley Treatment,” as her parents call it. Now, here’s [...]
I’m still recovering from the knittting circle. Well, not really. (It was great btw!) For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, here’s a a slice of fried gold for ya. Enjoy.
Snopes.com has a compilation of New Year’s Day superstitions. Most of them seem to be based on the premise that whatever you do on New Year’s Day will sort of set the tone for the rest of the year. For instance, if you receive gifts on Jan. 1, you will have a prosperous year. If [...]
In these momentous days, with great forces struggling to dominate the world, and civilization itself hanging in the balance, I would once again like to quibble over a trivial linguistic error. My peeve today is with the common misuse of the word ‘demonstration.’ Indeed, as I shall demonstrate, this word is used wrongly far more [...]
The Iraqiya televsion network announced that Saddam Hussein was hanged today. (Well, tomorrow, technically, since it’s already Saturday over there.) The scrolling headline as they broadcast the news was: “Saddam’s execution marks the end of a dark period of Iraq’s history.” I sure hope that’s right. While I am glad he is dead, and I believe his [...]
Gerald Ford died yesterday at 93. R.I.P. Pajamas Media has a huge roundup of blog eulogies for the 38th President of the United States.
The Nativity of the Lord, woodcut by Albrecht Durer, part of the Life of the Virgin series.
I was shopping much of the day, and will be wrapping much of the night. And with Christmas a whole two days away! I should remember to start this early every year.
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Time for an update on T.J.’s studies. We had some breaks for the Christmas holidays, and also took about two weeks off in early March due to the birth of T.J.’s newest cousin. Otther than that things have largely been uneventful. Mathematics: Deductive logic and lengthy forays into applied statistical analysis. English: Moving through American Literature sparked [...]
I was reading at Roundrock Journal and musing about meteor impacts, when I remembered a cool word: astrobleme - meaning star wound - and the official word for the crater left by a meteor impact.
Today was the Oklahoma Natural Parenting Homeschoolers park day. It was a little on the hot side but we had a great time. Pictures behind the cut! I love pictures of little kids walking. Sean and Gil Abby shows us her rainbows and hearts. Bede really likes trees, and this park has many. He was looking up at one, here. Faith [...]
On Friday, we took a field trip to the University of Oklahoma Medieval Fair, the annual event which for three days every year magically transforms Reaves Park in the college town of Norman, Oklahoma, into an authentic park with a Medieval Fair. Here are five-sevenths of our entourage, standing among the authentic Medieval straw bales. Abby [...]
Best Homeschooling has a great collection of essays on, you guessed it, homeschooling. I particularly enjoyed Just Do the Math, by David Albert, as it is a very good description of how I learned mathematics one summer. I went from barely managing basic computation to college algebra in about a month and a half of study [...]
Abaigeal can read too! She was sitting on the sofa the other day and I heard her talking to herself but since I was a room away, couldn’t quite make out the words. I walked in (she couldn’t see me at this point) and she was sitting there, happy as you please, reading a book [...]
