OK, random order meara:
RIP Ray Bradbury
Oh mac! Better choices, young man!
Kids with cell phones: I notice a lot of kids getting phones or at least texting at around 9 or 10. Have to say, which Isaac's bus was stuck in paperwork hell after the fender bender, I was most grateful for the 4th and 5th graders on the bus who had cell phones. They kept us informed as to what was happening.
We went to Griffith observatory yesterday to see the Venus Transit! So much fun! And now we have proper sun-viewing glasses for all our solar observation needs.
OK, graved is a typo.
(I searched the book at Amazon.)
Yay Griffith Observatory! We just opened a new show in the planetarium up there.
I'm sorry about the Mac drama, msbelle. I wish I had something helpful to say about it. I don't. But I am sorry it's so hard.
Sometimes I imagine things from my school days, only with cell phones. When I was on an overnight chorus trip, with several buses of students, the bus-drivers got lost on the way home and we were very, very late. Instead of calling with a cell phone, which no one had, we had to stop at a laundromat, and use payphones for 2 kids from each bus to call their parents, give them all our parents' names and phone numbers, and then the one set of parents per bus had to call everyone AND drive to the school to let the parents waiting there know.
Then when we arrived at something like 3 am, we all had to line up to use the pay phone to let our parent's know to come get us! Although I think some people's parents just waited in their cars in the parking lot all night!
I believe it's an Egyptian belief that your spirit is destroyed if no one says your name, which leads to all those monuments with people's names that other people vengefully chip off.
I bet we could all come up with millions of uses for Giant Googly Eyes.
Warning: possible time suck!
The Image Language
You type a sentence and it finds a picture (via google) that matches each word. So you end up with a "sentence" made up of pictures.
I love how much Liese is enjoying her telescope.
It is so great! It's kinda the "don't be bored, be interested" thing that I'm constantly telling my kids. But it really was the ideal extravagant gift, because I had the interest, but I never ever would have bought it for myself, and we wouldn't have afforded it out of our regular gifts budget. But from something like the SO's unexpected side job, it was a sacrifice for him, but something I've gotten a lot of joy from using. And he loves it too, so bonus.
