 |
 |
|
The Gleeson Bloglomerate is your gateway to the entire family of Gleeson blogs. Laugh, cry, hum, and snore along with Sean, Phoebe, Faith, Abby, Bede, Gilbert, and Trixie as "the rookie."
Tonight I just finished the very last level (there are 58 levels) of Weffriddles. Say, have I ever mentioned Weffriddles.com? I did? Just two days ago, you say? What day is it now? Friday? Yikes.
Sorry, it’s these darned riddles. They have a way of crowding everything else out of your brain and demanding to be solved. They make thinking about anything else somewhat difficult. I’m done with them now.
Phoebe warned me, “Don’t go to Weffriddles.com unless you have a couple of hours to spare.”
I should have listened. (But I did make it as far as clue 21 in only one hour.)
UPDATE: Phoebe is passing the blame, to Rosaline.
Wow. Did you know that the U.S. Geological Survey has a “Today in Earthquake History” Web page, that will instantly display all of the significant earthquakes which ever occurred on a particular date, with maps and everything? Well, now you know.
It was eight years ago this very day, Dec. 17, 1998 — around lunch time — that I fell in love. Eight years is not so very long ago, and yet I can no longer remember what it was like not to be in love, except for a vague impression that life was less pleasant. Good thing I wrote it all down.
Researchers in Canada have cured diabetes in mice! The breakthrough is being hailed as “shocking,” “amazing,” and “stunning.” But I’m wondering, even if it works, how many diabetic mice will be able to afford the treatment?
Thank God we have Pajamas Media to bring videos like this to our attention. I don’t know quite what to make of it, so I’ll reproduce the PJM commentary, in its entirety.
Yes, you’ll feel a bit odd watching this. But wait for the hat.
Indeed.
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.
Special Needs Child Art of Chess Combination Art of Sacrifice in Chess Turning Advantage into Victory in Chess Storming the Barricades The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played
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 [...]