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Today’s post at Acad­emy Car­i­tas lists some free online courses that look very good. I’m con­sid­er­ing using some of those to get back into the groove of school until I can go back “for real.”

I’m in a good mood, as I’m at the girl’s place and I got to see Steven today. ( Read more... )

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Y’all are tired of me doing this, aren’t you? Learn­ing to Code, Part 5.

Well, I had some fun away from the com­puter when my old­est nephew vis­ited today. He’s a non-​​stop bun­dle of energy! We got the air hockey table cleared off for a game. Woof!

And I went to the library ( Read more... )

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Yet another post in the ongo­ing drama of an old lady learn­ing new tricks, Learn­ing to Code, Part 4. I actu­ally put some of what I’ve learned (not pro­gram­ming, but updated web knowl­edge) to use and re-​​formatted my résumé so that it looks much bet­ter (to me, anyway).

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Today’s main post is at Acad­emy Car­i­tas, Learn­ing to Code, Part 3.

I spent part of the day help­ing Steven with his new web site, which was fun. I’m look­ing for­ward to read­ing lots of food porn there. Y’all go over and say hello, please?

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I stayed up WAY too late last night study­ing pro­gram­ming. Yes, for fun. That’s my idea of fun, any­way. I’ve been yawn­ing all day as a result, and I should already be in bed tonight because I need to be up early tomor­row. So this will be brief.

I’ve been enjoy­ing cor­re­ ( Read more... )

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Yet another Acad­emy Car­i­tas post today, Learn­ing to Code, Part 2. That’s what I’ve been doing for most of the day!

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First, a ran­dom thought:
“You learn a lot about peo­ple when you play games with them.” Laura Mon­cur
And now, the actual content:
Plinky asked, “Where do you fall on the polit­i­cal spectrum?”


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First, a ran­dom thought:

And now, the actual content:
Swedish group renames hymen ‘vagi­nal corona’

…(T)he term hymen is rooted in the Greek word for mem­brane. Rather than a frag­ile mem­brane that breaks, how­ever, the hymen is actu­ally mul­ti­ple folds of mucous membrane.

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Via the inestimable ideageek: Teaching girls to program
"Kids learning to storyboard, brainstorm, critique, design, pitch ideas, psuedocode, actually code, and make toys do things."

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I lost track of who originally linked to what, so I can’t credit them properly. But thank you to whoever they all were, anyway!

Filed under “another reason I’m proud to be a homeschooler”: California court rules that private school can oust lesbian students. I do understand that it’s a private religious school and that their denomination doesn’t ( Read more... )