“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Fine Arts Friday: Busy Day
Today we had friends over for a craft day. It was a busy, full, crafty day. My friend and the kids made pipe cleaner penguin snow globes. And also pipe cleaner imposter penguins (AKA bunnies) and pipe cleaner Adam and Jamie of Mythbusters. A closer look at the Mythbusters. Adam is a little abstract. […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Behind the times
You know how you get a little bit behind? Just a bit, no big deal. Half an hour max would set you straight. But then you get a little bit behind in something else. Then something else falls behind. And something else, etc., etc., etc. At this point, I’m going to need a new month. […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Election Day!
We have a mess of propositions and some bond initiatives for our city. I really ought to decide how I’m going to vote, huh? Here’s a round-up of voter guides from the conservative/libertarian perspective. They really don’t like the water initiative. Wherever you are, go vote for something. Participatory government links! Spaced-Out Challenge: Thar be […]
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Terrible Tuesday: One car edition
We’ve been having some issues with our van for a while now, but we think we’ve finally figured it out. We replaced the whatchamacallit for $80. That helped but didn’t solve it completely, so we bought a $20 whatsit, but that wasn’t the main problem, even though we needed to replace it. So we got […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Predawn edition
We got up at 5 am this morning to watch Mars get hit by a comet. Well, not really, but it would have still looked cool. Unfortunately, our eastern horizon is blocked by our neighbor’s trees. And while there’s a lot of great info at that link about seeing the sky, there’s nothing about looking […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Oh boy
Tuesdays have been pretty intense this fall, with 3 hours of occupational therapy, an hour of speech therapy, and one and a half hours of Orchestra, not to mention the 2 to 3 hours of driving. Just to keep things interesting, we’ve decided to throw in a softball game every Tuesday for the next month. […]
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Terrible Tuesday: Brain dump
I got nothing. Links! Raise a glass to Claude Shannon, Jr. , the genius no one’s heard of but whose work you’re benefiting from right now. There ought to be no law. From the little I’ve read, the law isn’t as awful as it could be, but talk about a camel’s nose in the door. […]
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Am I crazy?
Don’t answer that. So I’m watching this very interesting article on light pollution and the dark sky movement, and I start thinking: If a city was successful in implementing a thorough dark sky policy, could you have a city entirely lit as needed BUT with close access to dark skies? Like a platform or a […]
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Losing stars
I’ve mentioned before that our family likes to stargaze. Very often we’ll set up the telescope in the front lawn and find Mars or the moons of Jupiter or some other astronomical feature. Even though we’re in the close-in suburbs of Dallas, we get a decent view of the more prominent objects. However, for the […]
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Get ready for the big show
This weekend is one of the biggest events of the amateur astronomers year as the Perseid Meteor Shower peaks. We’re waking our kids up at 4 am Monday morning so they can see it. They are so excited. I’ve posted on resources we use for our stargazing before, and this post is very informative with […]
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