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Tornado watch in wake of EF2 Tornado motivates child to secure toys
So we got slammed by an EF2 tornado just a mile or so from here last night. The first ever tornado to hit downtown Atlanta. No damage to our neighborhood but this map shows just how much of the downtown area, into Cabbagetown, was hit. As it turns out there was no tornado warning issued…
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Parent ponders how best to deal with child who asks what alchemy is
Earlier in the day Marty had come in with the ZBS (Zero Bull Shit) catalogue and plopped it down in front of me and said, “The Fourth Tower of Inverness!” We’ve been planning a car trip, to be taken fairly soon, and the Fourth Tower of Inverness (we had some cassettes of it back in…
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Well, one can't say the universe isn't into novelty
I read the Bad Astronomy Blog and watch Phil Plait’s films, and sometimes read parts of the posts to H.o.p., like today’s which was on the age of the universe and how it was formed and the birth of hydrogen. “That is so cool,” H.o.p. said. Hydrogen means something to us as we’ve purchased a…
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Put a sock in it (and does one really need yoga pants to do yoga)
Yes, I’m back to trying yoga after a year’s hiatus (or should we say a false start a year ago). I have been digging around and finding yoga instruction that was much better than what I had before. Not like a drill sargent. Have only been at it a few days but Monday night, with…
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I was on my way to sleep, listening to the radiator, when…
I was lying there late last night listening to how the radiator goes click click gumph gumph gurgle gurgle as it starts up. As far as I knew I was still awake, meditating on the click click gumph gumph gurgle gurgle, playing with it in my head, when I was suddenly, something to do with…
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The Quandry
H.o.p.: Mom, there’s something I want to talk to you about. I have this problem that freaks me out sometimes. It’s about life. Sometimes when I think about life it’s like something I can’t escape. It’s hard to describe. How can I forget about it, mom? Bad mom softly laughs. H.o.p.: And I sometimes get…
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It Worked for Us – BBC Typing School (Ages 7 – 11)
BBC has an online typing program for kids ages 7 to 11, Dance Mat Typing. I thought I’d go ahead and give it a plug as it worked for us. H.o.p. began the lessons last year but his interest collapsed. He started them again this year back in November or December and finished them, this…
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Wildly imaginative worlds of Yannick Puig
A couple of wonderful whimsical offerings. H.o.p. loves the animations of Yannick Puig, such as the below “I Lived on the Moon”. Another is the delightful “Krapooyo”. I like Puig’s animations as well. P.S. “I Lived on the Moon” was replayed over and over here today and probably will be for a while. I showed…
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Let's Not Watch it Again!
Netflix has some Sundance Film Festival animated shorts from 2007. H.o.p. and I watched “Ask the Insects”, “Der Ostwind”, “In Passing” and “One Rat Short”. “Ask the Insects” was the only one he asked to see again, the effects having sparked his interest, and then before I even began to replay it he had changed…
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Learning the Language of Ipod
Post Valentine’s and I’m learning the language of my new Ipod. I’ve wanted an Ipod for thousands of years. Though H.o.p. has a broad musical vocabulary, there’s a major generation gap going on and I would prefer to not spend all my waking hours listening to “Carmina Burana” and “Ghost Riders in the Sky”. Thus,…
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At 12:30 am, there was this BOOM…
So last night at around 12:30 am there was this huge but kind of muffled boom that sounded like either a thundercloud had exploded or a building a block away had fallen down. Beat. “What was that?” I said. “What was that?” H.o.p. said. “I heard it too,” Marty said. We’re sounding like the momma…
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My brain screamed "NOO, I'M MUSH, DON'T DO THIS TO ME!" all the while
Waited all day yesterday for a UPS shipment for Marty but then he realized it was coming in today instead so here I wait for UPS to knock at the window. I started using the Flash Media Player via Dreamhost for displaying QT to FLV video on the blogs because Youtube can be pretty funky,…