Man and Woman and Love
On Venus' transit of the sun:
"Nicolo Reale, an art student in wild dreadlocks, forgave his roommate for dragging him out of bed to see Venus at the piazza. “Stupendous,” he said. “It makes me think of man and woman and love.”"
I wish we could have seen it here in Texas but there is another one in 2012, and who knows where I will be then?
This is a very cool page with many astronomy slideshows:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3077788/
I wish I could do more than just look at those pictures. They create a need to be more involved somehow, but I have no talent for physics and astronomy, just a love and interest. Really, I have love and interest in too many things, and they all create this...anxiety about doing something meaningful with my life.
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Here is a list of some of the words 8th grader David Tidmarsh had to spell to win the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee this year. Try saying them really fast.
ombrophilous
succenturiate
foudroyant
serpiginous
sophrosyne
gaminerie
authochthonous
My favorite winning word is still "euonym", and my favorite word of the competition is "logodaedaly".
This little boy was so cute. All the winners react physically when they know they've got it: most pump their arms or start to jump around or scream the letters out. David Tidmarsh quietly finished his word and then wept.
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Let's see, what else have I got?
www.visualthesaurus.com
Try "big" if only to see how nifty the site is.
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I have a second job up at Halliburton now, as a software tester. I'm going to have to fudge for a little while, but will pick things up quickly, I hope. So I'll be up there all throughout the work week. Also, tommorrow is a math test, and then the family is driving up to Gainesville, just north of Dallas, for a family reunion this weekend. At which there will be no one my age, really. So perhaps I will be able to emerge and do something social next week(end), but in the meantime, I'll be starting a paper journal and trying to figure things out. Things. Or call me this weekend and alleviate the boredom (Yours or mine). But of course, my sisto will be there, and we will have fun!
And who knows why this has stuck in my head all these years: "I love you" in Gaelic and then Welsh:
Ta gra agam ort.
'Rwy'n dy garu di.
Oh, and I might want to try to learn Arabic. I seem to like languages a whole lot.
"Nicolo Reale, an art student in wild dreadlocks, forgave his roommate for dragging him out of bed to see Venus at the piazza. “Stupendous,” he said. “It makes me think of man and woman and love.”"
I wish we could have seen it here in Texas but there is another one in 2012, and who knows where I will be then?
This is a very cool page with many astronomy slideshows:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3077788/
I wish I could do more than just look at those pictures. They create a need to be more involved somehow, but I have no talent for physics and astronomy, just a love and interest. Really, I have love and interest in too many things, and they all create this...anxiety about doing something meaningful with my life.
~~~
Here is a list of some of the words 8th grader David Tidmarsh had to spell to win the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee this year. Try saying them really fast.
ombrophilous
succenturiate
foudroyant
serpiginous
sophrosyne
gaminerie
authochthonous
My favorite winning word is still "euonym", and my favorite word of the competition is "logodaedaly".
This little boy was so cute. All the winners react physically when they know they've got it: most pump their arms or start to jump around or scream the letters out. David Tidmarsh quietly finished his word and then wept.
~~~
Let's see, what else have I got?
www.visualthesaurus.com
Try "big" if only to see how nifty the site is.
~~~
I have a second job up at Halliburton now, as a software tester. I'm going to have to fudge for a little while, but will pick things up quickly, I hope. So I'll be up there all throughout the work week. Also, tommorrow is a math test, and then the family is driving up to Gainesville, just north of Dallas, for a family reunion this weekend. At which there will be no one my age, really. So perhaps I will be able to emerge and do something social next week(end), but in the meantime, I'll be starting a paper journal and trying to figure things out. Things. Or call me this weekend and alleviate the boredom (Yours or mine). But of course, my sisto will be there, and we will have fun!
And who knows why this has stuck in my head all these years: "I love you" in Gaelic and then Welsh:
Ta gra agam ort.
'Rwy'n dy garu di.
Oh, and I might want to try to learn Arabic. I seem to like languages a whole lot.