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  • The DIA kids website, where inquiring children can learn about old Soviet howitzers

    Continuing my glance throughs of of the kiddy sections of government websites, at the Defense Intelligence Agency children’s website they don’t even try to offer an explanation on what they’re about to inquiring children. There are no whats, hows, whys. One gets straight to the games, a soldier in camouflage fatigues standing in front of…

  • So tall, so fast

    Interesting conversation with H.o.p. tonight. We were sitting at the puters after he’d practiced piano (he is now taking piano) and H.o.p. says after a while, “What can I do to keep from floating up?” Hmmm. Okey-dokey. “You feel like you’re going out of your body sometimes?” “Yes. Going up. I float up above it.”…

  • We Went and We Saw – Registration at the Roswell UFO Museum (digital painting)

    We Went and We Saw – Registration at the Roswell UFO Museum (digital painting)

    Registration at the Roswell UFO Museum Digital painting (with photo by artist for reference) 28 w by 18.66 in h 2007 Lightbox enlargement Detail. Needed to do a painting of H.o.p. and the wooden alien. I may do another. If there was anything that struck me as curious at the museum it was the alien…

  • Plug for the Dappled Grays

    Like Bluegrass and Texas Swing? Marty recorded the “Dappled Grays” in the fall and their CD, “Doin’ My Job” is now out. Here’s their website. And here’s their Myspace page. You can hear tunes at either. I didn’t hear any of it until this morning and it’s some really fine music. If I wasn’t so…

  • Not Learning About Geo-Spatial Intelligence with Terry-Firma and Wanda World

    Today I thought H.o.p. and I could look at the military’s kid’s section of the Geo-Spatial Intelligence website. H.o.p. could review and I could (probably) mock it–not in front of him, mind you, I wouldn’t want to influence him, because after all I’m trying to see what key ideas and words are dropped on govt…

  • Learning about intelligence and information with Little Lady Liberty and Beaker Eagle

    The National Counterterrorism Center for Kids Page sucks. You knew it would but it sucks even more than you could have guessed. The reason I was there is The Spy Who Billed Me’s blog on the National Counterterrorism Center’s release of their 2007 Counterterrorism Calendar, which I went to take a look at and is…

  • We Went and We Saw – The Lure of the Prize at the Fair (digital painting)

    We Went and We Saw – The Lure of the Prize at the Fair (digital painting)

    The Lure of the Prize at the Fair Digital painting (with photo by artist as reference) 20 by 15 inches 2007 Lightbox enlargement Posted the original photo of this a while back. There was a winsomness to it, H.o.p. looking on the scene, that I don’t know if I caught as strongly in the painting.…

  • The word of the day is "Zombified"

    So this evening I for some reason thought about how it had been a while since I’d had one of those coincidental moments with H.o.p. where something I’m thinking will pop out of his mouth. Earlier today I wrote on the blog how I was feeling “zombified”. It’s not a normal part of my vocabulary.…

  • "I was just trying to help"

    For dinner tonight we had guacamole. We make great guac. While making our great guac we realized we were out of lemon and co-adult ran out to get some. Gotta have lemon for the guac. And it was great guac. The avocados were perfect. The last ingredient added was a little salt. Just a touch.…

  • Magical lint, secrets for cash – The Sanity of “All Quiet on the Western Front”

    Magical lint, secrets for cash – The Sanity of “All Quiet on the Western Front”

    Of course I spent yesterday in bed, unable to move. But who didn’t know that would likely happen? Even I knew that would likely happen, I’m not a complete idiot. Though I must say I was hoping that I would be spared, mainly because I was the one doing all the cooking and I didn’t…

  • Still standing

    Let me put it this way, the holiday pitched a few punches. Mother-in-law in from out of town since last Thursday and co-adult’s two brothers arriving a little after that, co-adult got hit with the flu last Friday and has been in bed since then, completely since then, steeped in misery. I have been gobbling…

  • In which I do a good job of not spreading Christmas cheer

    In which I do a good job of not spreading Christmas cheer

    We hit the Imperial Rome Exhibit at Fernbank a second time. The exhibit is leaving early January so not too long left to see it if you haven’t and are in the area. Imperial Rome Exhibit, Education Alley, Fernbank, Atlanta, 2006 View On White Going through the Farmer’s Market afterwards I finally mustered up a…