Here's an excellent article that also shows the problems with the various implementations of "new math" that keep happening in the US ( Read more... )

Tonight at the dinner table we were discussing this and that when Bea randomly popped out this gem:

Bea: "If someone says, "Do you want to smoke?", I'll say, 'Do you want to dance?' Then they'll start dancing and I'll run away!"

Thank you, Queen of the Non sequitur. It was nonsequiturception!

I should probably write other stuff about Comic Con, but I wanted to get this out there rather than my usual procrastinating. There's an indie movie called Dragon Warriors that is being kickstarted right now. It's completely shot and stars James Marsters as the villain, they just need money to finish the music and effects. They still need a lot ( Read more... )

Well, the Kindle Fire may suck, but Amazon continues to be awesome. The new Fire arrived today despite being scheduled for Saturday. Here's hoping this one holds out. I must say that I remain very pleased with the case I got for it as well. I'd have to look up who I got it from, but it's held up extremely well despite being moved between four ( Read more... )

The Kindle Fire's charging port went all loosey-goosey so it wouldn't charge. Again. The $42 I spent on the extended warranty just paid for itself, as the last time we got it replaced, it was still barely under the year provided standard by Amazon. This one did better than the old ones, as we did get a year's use out of it, but still, having the ( Read more... )

I thought I'd overheard Bea say something about Zazu-zazu-bah being dead recently, and today, she told my mom the story in a bit more detail where I could hear more clearly what was going on. According to her, one of her other pet unicorns turned ZZB into a sheep and all the other pet unicorns into sheep and goats. Now she has no unicorns (except ( Read more... )

As an update to my mouse situation, I called and sent my proof of purchase to Logitech on January 2nd. The warranty department gave me verification that they'd get me a replacement sent out on January 3rd (a Friday). Monday, January 6th, they generated a UPS shipping label for the new mouse, which got here today, January 10th. So, eight days, ( Read more... )

Enoch just woke up crying just now. I asked him what was wrong, if he had a bad dream, etc. He finally answered that he had a bad dream. I asked him what happened in the dream. He told the most horrifying tale. He said...that he dreamed he wanted ice cream and that we had it but...Dad ate the last of it! Oh noes! Anyone would wake up crying ( Read more... )

I've used Logitech products since my family's very first computer. They've generally got a good reputation for products that work well for a long time and I've certainly found that to be the case most of the time. I did get a G500 gaming mouse a few years back that started having some weird issues after less than a year of use. Since I'd heard ( Read more... )

There are some articles I've come across in the last few weeks that I wanted to comment on and didn't get on immediately. So they're a bit old news, but oh well.

First up, we have the "news" that the NSA saved us all from computer disaster! Now, in full disclosure, I couldn't get the video at the bottom of this page to work for me. However, ( Read more... )