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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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.…
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Mundane Story About a Three Day Gig at a Movie Theater
Originally uploaded by eman59. The photo to the side isn’t mine. It’s by Eman59, whose photography I’m following at Flickr right now. I love the photo, which is universal (for all who’ve interacted with a box office window), but it also reminded me of a job I once had. Post pop-psychedelia, a movie theater opened…
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Indeed, Virginia, You CAN Nail Jello To A Wall
Indeed, Virginia, You Can Nail Jello To A Wall AKA “Jello Christ” Which is how art works. First Stelarc makes an art installation of himself, hanging himself from hooks, appending an ear to his arm. Then H.o.p. says, upon glimpsing a pic of Stelarc’s ear, “Let’s make a jello man!” So, he makes a jello…
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Parenting a nine-year-old, after you stop wondering if you have a poltergeist, you start wondering if you’ve lost your mind
WHERE DID IT GO? We’ve had problems with lost items in the past, in this apartment, which have nothing to do with H.o.p. I had long ago concluded there are teeny tiny blackholes abounding that science knows nothing about, which suck up random belongings and very occasionally spits them back out a few months later,…
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The Jello Man Tragedy
Making a Jello Man was harder than H.o.p. thought it would be. Those are the two shots I was able to capture before H.o.p., hysterically laughing, doubled over on the floor and that was that. Was time to step in and make sure we didn’t end up with jello all over the rug. Well, we’ve…
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Ding dong…
The blogs are abuzz with Jerry Falwell’s death. We decided not to watch the video on the Great Wall of China at Netflix because I read a review by someone who knows better (is from China) and they were lambasting it for misidentifying time periods etc. So we watched a video on Vienna and some…
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Head
Nearly 40 years after, here I sit watching The Monkees’ one and only feature film, Head, on a little Toshiba (won’t play on the ‘puter), my mind pretty well blown away by the fact this was co-written and co-produced by none other than Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces, The King of Marvin…
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Pain and the Dangerous Sport of Dish Washing
Pain and the Dangerous Sport of Dish Washing May 2007 Light box enlargement For better view click to go to Flickr and then click on All Sizes. This one is all jaggedy because of resizing. Anyway, there it is, Marty’s encounter with one of those overly brittle Ikea glasses that shatter so easily (and quietly)…
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As H.o.p. runs screaming from the room
On one of the homeschool groups I’m on, an almost-war popped up over home science. One person had written in something about homeschool and science needs and how they were amazed at the materials some people had at home or had easy access to. The person ended the comment with a smiley, which indicates good…