1. The cannon the Mexican army tried to take from the militia at Gonzales, kicking off the revolution, is really small, only about two feet long ( Read more... )

When I was eight or so I learned about light refraction at school and thought it was pretty nifty, so after school I filled a spray bottle with water, climbed to the top of the slide in the backyard and tried it out. It was a bright sunny day, so I got lots of pretty rainbows. Eventually Beth came over (she must have been about four at the time) to ( Read more... )

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Dear Every Store in the Mall ( Read more... )

This morning I woke up to the greatest email ever - an offer for the September Junior Foreign Service Officer class! Huzzah! After years of trying I am finally in, finally got what I've wanted for so long. It feels good ( Read more... )

I'm baaaaaaaack ( Read more... )

Finally, flying cars
You too can be Superman. Sort of.
Earth: top to bottom
50 most-looked-up words on NYTimes.com How many do you know? (I confess, my Latin isn't what it ought to be.)
Baking with the U.S. Department of Defense
Brontë Sisters Power Dolls!

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Recently the ads on LiveJournal have been getting increasingly irritating, so I'm thinking of moving my journal somewhere else, i.e., Blogger, where the ads are a bit more discreet and I can make some money from them if I so choose. However, I have run into a small problem: there are no blogspot addresses left ( Read more... )

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Dear Hades ( Read more... )