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  • The Quandry

    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…

  • 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…

  • Cosmeo No Longer Has Maths Mansion (durn)

    We use Cosmeo quite a bit and H.o.p. really enjoys it. He really enjoyed the Brit show Maths Mansion which he discovered via Cosmeo, which was filmed about 2001 and is a math adventure game geared for 9 to 11 year olds (not to be confused with the Ms. Infinity’s Math Mansion). Then suddenly the…

  • Rosetta Stone Doesn't Like Libraries

    I discovered what’s going on with Rosetta Stone and libraries. They’ve decided to not license them any longer. So I was reading that a library, patrons being hooked, had ordered CDs to lend out. But the new Rosetta Stone license is for one computer alone. The librarian had felt that Rosetta Stone had used them…

  • Loathsome bad cookies

    I’m feeling out of sorts. I think I’ve a touch of the flu that’s been going around. Ended up sleeping most of the day, thus H.o.p. had a day off. I took a nap this morning and was surprised to wake up and found how long I napped. Then I took a nap this afternoon,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Slinky in the Sky with Jittery Diamonds

    Lo and behold the clouds cleared up and after watching for a while from the window we stepped outside for around 20 minutes of eclipse viewing with the binoculars. “Wasn’t that exciting?” H.o.p. said. It was pretty. I tried taking pictures but not having brought along the tripod the moon came out looking like a…

  • Not Excited About the Lunar Eclipse…

    …because I checked the hour by hour weather forecast and it looks like we’re gonna be all clouds. Drat.

  • Out of the mouths of ten year old boys

    H.o.p. watching a show on myth and meaning and it mentions the pain of childbirth. “How can childbirth be painful?” H.o.p. objects. “It’s a joyous time!” I laugh and I laugh and I laugh.

  • 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…

  • Tullie Smith Farm Log Cabin

    Tullie Smith Farm Log Cabin

    Tullie Smith Farm Log Cabin Atlanta History Center, 2008 View On White Atlanta History Center, Tullie Smith Farm Area View On White Little log cabins and farm houses don’t exactly thrill me. Before H.o.p. was born, these are not scenes I would generally elect to go seek out, but if they were THERE right before…