Ein, Zwei, Molson Dry? Researcher Says Hand Gesturing To Count In Foreign Countries Can Be Tricky Tue Sep 29, 2009
Author: Robyn
And yet M’s school insists I pick her up
Ah, how I love Lenore Skenazy. And STATS, who interviewed her. Perhaps the problem needed to be approached from a different angle, she thought. What if you actually wanted your
In which I fume about absurd school forms
I am facing the annual pile of forms from M’s school. I am immediately annoyed by the size of the pile. Welcome back! Let’s spend an hour filling out forms!
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Aug 21, 2009
The Apollo Number: Space Suits, Self-Support, and the Walk-Run Transition Wed Aug 12, 2009
I have a geek child (yay)!
Shopping with M the other day: M: …and don’t forget we need some of the Mozilla cheese. Me: The which cheese? M: The Mozilla cheese. You know, for pizza. Me:
No mom jeans, then?
A brief movie review on BoingBoing raises a fashion issue I had not previously considered: …when you dress yourself in the morning, please take note that this outfit could possibly
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Jul 24, 2009
Make Like a Dolphin: Learn to Echolocate Tue Jun 30, 2009 A Bridge Too Far? Stark Warning From History Over Plans For ‘Inhabited’ London Bridge Sun Jul 19, 2009
Desperately sad. Easily avoided.
I have to say something about this desperately sad story, in which two children, non-swimmers both, drowned and died along with their mother, also a non-swimmer, who had been supervising
I’ve earned every one of mine
(Surviving the World)
Ah, destruction
We started to bash up the hideous, much-hated cabinets from our ex-kitchen (well, more of a “kitchen” really) in the back bedroom. YAY. I haven’t flung any chunks out the
I’ll count four, and then just follow
Courtesy of the Metallica documentary “Some Kind of Monster”, this is a phrase I’m going to adopt to indicate a situation in which one is being put in the position
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Jul 17, 2009
Morning People And Night Owls Show Different Brain Function Tue Jun 23, 2009 Mystery Of Bat With Extraordinary Nose Solved Tue Jul 07, 2009
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Jul 10, 2009
Well: Reasons Not to Panic Over a Painkiller Tue Jul 07, 2009
In case you needed a nice dangerous toy
In case you needed a nice dangerous toy Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. High-quality trebuchets & siege towers (with catapult)! Note that they’re part of a whole medieval siege-engine series. I
Happy Canada Day
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Thu Jun 25, 2009
Tell the province what you think of e-bikes Mon Jun 22, 2009
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Thu Jun 18, 2009
Gender gap in maths driven by social factors, not biological differences Mon Jun 01, 2009
Playing For Change: Song Around the World “One Love”
Melle shared this the other day — lovely!
Swine flu — officially a pandemic
I posted about swine flu a while back, before we really knew anything. Since the WHO just moved to stage 6 and declared it a pandemic, causing my RSS feeds
True.
Yesterday my database developer called me a geek. Twice, in fact. I have to admit I like the pretty pretty lights.