My Own Thoughts

Little Caesar’s Pizza owner sets up soldier who lost both legs with a franchise. Cool.

to be a writer. So says Elizabeth Clementson who is making her living in publishing. Whew. I’m relieved.

I was reading someone and they found this “easily made with things you have on hand” recipe which included saffron and capers. Apparently the toothpaste for dinner artist found the same recipe. Or he lives in Arlington.

This is also my son’s view of public school. Funny

The New York Times has an article about a study of 90 students at Penn State who took complex genetic tests and found that most of them weren’t pure anything. This wasn’t just true of white students. “Ostensibly “black” subjects, for example, found that as much as half of their genetic material came from Europe, [...]

Books are good!

I watched the pilot of “Over There” with my husband and eldest son. I didn’t like it. I thought it was very propagandistic and strange. I wondered if this was the first time a series was ever produced during the war. I know there were many WWII movies, but I wonder if those were touted [...]

Sine qua non Pundit has an excellent post dated July 18, 2005 on the patriotism of Hollywood. The author does not rely on feelings, but examines a list of movies which were up for Academy Awards during WWII and ANY movie during the present day Global War on Terror. They are included only based on [...]

Most of the blogs I read have said all I might think of saying about most things. So, the only thing I want to note is that driving with a sprained right ankle in modern cars is very difficult. (I sprained the ankle on Thursday. It is now purple and green and black, but less [...]

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years. Then move through successively smaller views until you are examining quarks. The views are incredible. My favorite is the top of an oak tree. A great thing about this is that it is in Java, which I can run.

No, that doesn’t mean what you think it means. Rather it means that our a/c is out. We don’t know why. We don’t have a regular a/c company, which means we’ll be at the bottom of the list. And it’s the weekend. It’s already 80 degrees downstairs and 90-100 upstairs, depending on where you are. [...]

E and his dad had an argument today on whether “partly cloudy” and “mostly sunny” meant the same things or different things. I told E he had to look it up on the net when we got home. He asked what would happen if he was right? I said he’d get to say his dad [...]

A 28,000 year old phallus of siltstone was found in Germany buried in some cave.

Julian Beever does sidewalk art that looks 3D. I saw the first three pics at Bright Mystery. The perspective is incredible.

We are now into the fourth week of redoing the siding on our house. The good things are: 1. the siding is new 2. the guy working on it is good 3. the house will be totally repainted 4. the “going to do severe damage” things that were wrong that we didn’t know about will [...]

The Common Room discusses children in the assembly. It has this statement, “Worship is not about ourselves. It is about our Heavenly Father.” Yes, worship is about the Heavenly Father. But what is church about? I was eating lunch with a woman from my church yesterday and she said that she and her husband had [...]

Three Boy Scout Leaders were killed and three injured in some kind of accident, thought at this time to be electrcial, when setting up a dining tent. The positive note in the article is that the Senate voted 98-0 to allow BSA onto military bases. And it also notes that the BSA spent $2o million [...]

I was going to say what I did today, but then I figured my husband would read it. So I’m not.

This site has a European map in which you must drag and drop the countries. Obviously I need to study a bit more. And we should do this for homeschool.

News@nature.com has an article which says that leptin regulates appetite obese people have more than the average leptin so it seems that leptin doesn’t work for the obese and abnormal amounts of leptin alter brain cell function which can impact everything from short term memory to Alzheimer’s. Which means obese people may be more at [...]