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I just read an awesome book
I love kids' books. Good ones are generally short, fun reads that are juicy and compelling afternoon trips. The School Story by Andrew Clements is a prime example ( Read more... ) -
a question for the NeoOffice users (and maybe OpenOffice)
Is it possible to change how rows are numbered in a spreadsheet? I'm charting a knitting pattern, which is meant to be read from the bottom up. I would like the numbers to match that. I could just add a new column with those numbers, but that's less slick ( Read more... ) -
Feminist SF Blogging Day
It's apparently Feminist SF Blogging Day. Well, it's more like that the friends who run that blog are having a geekfest, but I figured there's no reason the party couldn't extend further. I'm currently reading The Ancient One, an eco-fantasy kids book by T.A. Barron. (Is eco-fantasy a real genre?)( click for a book report-y few paragraphs ) -
Supreme Court Case Meme
As was demonstrated in an interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade ( Read more... ) -
book search
This is probably something that enough Google searching would solve for me, but I keep running into dead ends and have other things to do ( Read more... ) -
Question
In the last 20 years, has there been a depiction (TV or movie) of a newly pregnant woman seeking an abortion and receiving one? Or do they always change their minds/conveniently miscarry/aren't actually knocked up? -
I lived in the sub free dorm, I don't actually know these things
We basically have either house, if we want it. So now the question is, how long will the pot smoke of the house on Main stick around? The entire second floor is carpeted, and the stench was so strong I felt somewhat nauseous.
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Join the conversation at Damnportlanders.
Also, a question for my local or once-local readers with ADD: Did you ever see ( Read more... ) -
Curriculum: Earth Model Cupcakes
"Curriculum is uninspired and mediocre at best," my ass. Check out what we did yesterday:
Earth Science Week Day 5: The internal structure of the earth (aka "I took a geology class once")
Warmup: Kinetic Earth game ( thought up on the fly, adapted from the tree internal structure activity ) -
for the history buffs, war enthusiasts, funky film connoisseurs and those who are totally not hungry
Via the excellent Wasted Food, I found Food Fight: a visual history of American-involved conflict...via food. America is represented with French fries and hamburgers, Russia is beef stroganoff, and so on. Think little wonton-filling cannon balls fired from spring rolls, or a giant hamburger H-bomb obliterating a field of sushi. (The Cold War ( Read more... )