At the school my children attend, the gym teacher is also a taekwondo instructor. (Sidenote: spellcheck thinks I should change taekwondo to wonderland. And, I mean, having a wonderland instructor would be awesome, don't get me wrong, but I'm thinking the two terms aren't quite so interchangeable as spellcheck would have me believe.) There's a ( Read more... )

I'm feeling indulgent today, so I have decided to share a poem. I discovered this one when it was featured on karenhealey's blog. I'm not religious, being rather agnostic, but with this particular poem I don't think it matters. It's sweet and simple and makes more sense than most full religions.

God Says Yes To MeKaylin Haught ( Read more... )

Because if seanan_mcguire can list off ten random things in her blog today, so can I ( Read more... )

I have an icon with a dancing Ood. Your argument is invalid.

A little while ago, a friend and I were cruising around town and playing with the car's GPS system. We knew where we were going, we were just having fun with the mechanical voice. At one point, though, instead of taking us through the most obvious and efficient route, the GPS wanted to take us pretty far out of our way. So, of course, we ignored ( Read more... )

I had an interesting conversation with my brother today. His stance was that a couple of hundred years ago, people used a higher class of language than we do today. They were better educated on the use of the language, judging from the books and other writings that have come from the time period. "Of course," he added, "people cared more about ( Read more... )

I had the most interesting conversation last night. Late at night, the phone rang, and the caller ID showed a name and number I don't know. Normally I don't pick up if I don't recognize the caller, but I'd seen this number show up on my caller ID before and curiosity got the better of me. Not to mention it was quite late and I figured a phone ( Read more... )

The Media: Dudes, Bristol Palin's breasts totally look different! Here are the before and after pictures. WE ARE SURE SHE HAS HAD A BOOB JOB.
Me: I really don't care.
The Husband: That doesn't look like a boob job. That looks like she stopped breastfeeding.

long pause
The Husband: So, uh, you can tell I'm married with three kids, can't you?

It seems science has given us the capability of creating a geep, a combination of a goat and a sheep. The animals weren't bred together, but the bits and bobs were merged in a dish, and then stuck in a womb. I guess the geep's success has scientists hoping this kind of technology will be able to help replenish the populations of endangered ( Read more... )

Because we are sad, sad people, the husband and I occasionally come up with random geeky costumes it would be fun to wear together at a convention or just for Halloween. Occasionally the kids get involved with the theme, although when that happens it tends to be something they're into. The year our oldest decided she wanted to be Batgirl for ( Read more... )