Hyperlinks & Footnotes
Christina Pikas recently wrote a post about an issue she has with Nicholas Carr’s new book. It hits on exactly what I was trying to say the other day, but it does a much...
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Kill Doctor Lucky
One of our favorite games at the moment is Kill Doctor Lucky. It’s sort of like Clue in reverse. In this game, you’re moving around a mansion trying to kill an old guy named...
Jim Henson’s Fantastic World
Today we went to an exhibit at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington. The exhibit was called Jim Henson’s Fantastic World. It’s about the guy who created the Muppets. Unfortunately this was the last...
Last day of School
At the beginning of school everyone in my English class had these paper strips that we cut to be the same height as us. Here I am now, with my paper strip from the...
Inheritance
We’ve been playing around with 23andme some more. We now have my mother’s data. That lets us look at more detail of what genes come from which side of the family. For example, if...
Pool Party
Peter’s 13th birthday is tomorrow. He had his party today with some friends from school. Today was a perfect summer day with sunshine and temperatures in the high 80’s so we all went over...
Driver’s Ed
Tom turns 16 next month. You know what that means! We’ve got him signed up for driver’s ed. In mass, that shortens the process and helps on the insurance rates. The first step in...
Bedside Table
I’ve been meaning to post some book reviews here, but I’ve just been too busy. Therefore, I’m going to post a bunch of quickies together in an attempt to get caught up. These are...
Maternal Haplogroups
We got email from 23andme yesterday that more of our DNA data was ready. You may remember that last time I talked about the maternal & paternal haplogroups. These are the two lines which...
