Asteroid 2010 KQ
Did you see this report yesterday from NASA? It’s about an “asteroid” which passed the Earth this spring. It came from deep space and swung by just outside the Moon’s orbit. What’s interesting about...
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Paper Work
Tom had some interesting math homework tonight. He had to make a kite. They’re all going to fly kites in math class tomorrow. I don’t know what flying kites has to do with Trig,...
Scratch Day 2010
Today was Scratch Day, a worldwide network of gatherings where people meet up and celebrate and learn about Scratch. We had our own Scratch Club Open House at Clarke yesterday, where the Scratch Club...
Mixed Grill
Mixed grill is an old family expression for leftovers night. Tonight’s post is a very random collection of stuff from the Internet that we found interesting recently. First up, some good poetry from the...
Toyota & Tesla
NUMMI was one of the casualties of the recent mess that hit the American car industry. It was a joint GM Toyota plant in Fremont California. It produced a lot of the joint GM/Toyota...
Budget Simulator
So politics appear to be derailing the federal budget process yet again. When I last talked about the budget back in February, I forgot to mention one great resource for information about the budget....
Comment Spam
We’ve been having a bit of a problem with spam in the comments recently. It all seems to have started with the following Google search. inurl:blog “post a comment” –blogspot canvas So I’ve been...
Non-Latin Typography
How much do you know about non-Latin writing systems? I’ve been bumping into them quite a bit recently. Tom has been taking Mandarin in High School. He has a lot of homework drawing Kanji...
30 years ago today
Thirty years ago today I was supposed to be writing a paper for history class. Instead I was glued to the tiny black and white TV in my sister’s room watching the news unfold...
