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Month: May 2007

  • H.o.p. asks, "What are they doing advertising things that hurt the earth at a place that’s supposed to help the earth?"

    From when he was knee-high, I’ve been telling H.o.p. about ads. What ads want from you. What they want to sell you. I tell him about the relationship between ads and some of the websites he visits. Like Neopets. I ever remind him that those sites want something from him, which is all the time…

  • Moon Over Apartment Building

    Moon Over Apartment Building

    Moon over Apartment Building Midtown Moon over the 144 Ponce de Leon Building Light box enlargement Moon over the 144 Ponce de Leon Building, May 2007. Marty was mad at me over this one. I was standing in a driveway, easily observed (I thought, and was), but a speedy car with someone talking on a…

  • St. Mark Methodist Church at Sunset

    St. Mark Methodist Church at Sunset

    St. Mark Methodist Church, Peachtree Street, Midtown, Atlanta Church at Sunset Light box enlargement The St. Mark Methodist Church on Peachtree, its spire giving the illusion of being sandwiched between the 905 Juniper Street building and another on Peachtree.

  • Movie Night

    Movie Night

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  • Fernbank Science Center Observatory (2 views)

    Fernbank Science Center Observatory We had a lovely night at the observatory at Fernbank. The weather was cool and clear. There weren’t many people and when there aren’t many people that means you get a chance to look at a variety of celestial bodies. Outside, one of the smaller telescopes was trained on the moon,…

  • Blasting the old "Homeschoolers are destroying the future of science!" argument

    While H.o.p. is learning about how rats at a temple in India are revered and that at the end of the day people drink from their milk bowls with the hope of acquiring luck (his interest in the creatures that populate the Redwall world has him daily eager to learn more about rats, mice, moles…

  • Damn elitism

    One thing I get tired of with Democrat/Progressive blogs is, for instance, not being satisfied to jump up and down about Wingnut ideology (which is all that’s needed) but stooping to go, “Nyah, nyah! Look, stupid can’t even spell!” It’s elitist and wrong and unnecessary. I suppose it galls me as much as it does…

  • Blogging Man with the Screaming Brain

    OK, “Man with the Screaming Brain”. When I read a comment on Netflix that this 2005 production was a 90 minute movie that felt like 5 hours, liking the idea of 3 and 1/2 hours being added to my life, I decided… Wait, we’ve already begun. “Somewhere in Bulgaria…” appears on the black screen. Cut…

  • Giant Tea Cup of Justice, Lafayette, Louisiana

    Giant Tea Cup of Justice, Lafayette, Louisiana Enlargement Giant Tea Cup of Justice, Lafayette, Louisiana Enlargement

  • Having polished off my last chocolate raisin, I will slide back under the desk

    Drama kings and queens. Me (to H.o.p.): Don’t be a Drama King. H.o.p.: What’s a Drama King. Me: You know what a Drama King is. H.o.p.: To be or not to be? I’m stealing that one. * * * * * * * A while back I pretty much stopped writing about politics because, frankly,…

  • Again, just checking

    Last night it was… H.o.p.: I have something to ask you, mom. How weird is it to find an alien for the first time in your bathtub? Me: Very weird. Today, talking with his Oma on the phone, H.o.p. started crying out, “Oh, daddy, not again! Don’t do it again!” and then would make huge…

  • The Mug Show

    For the blog – mugs Originally uploaded by idyllopus. Saying Yes informs that The World’s Fair is wanting to know what kind of mug you drink from for the purpose of interpretations of the cultural and environmental philosophy of your mug. The World’s Fair has a set of questions and well, sure, why not. 1.…