My Own Thoughts

Category: Info Wanted

  • Affording It?

    Really, how can my friends who live in an apt in Dallas, who are both divorced and not getting the money they were supposed to from their respective ex-spouses, who apparently sit around all day and golf and drink, buy a half million dollar house? I would really like to know their secret.

  • Email weirdness

    Does it make any sense that people send you email and say, “In order to ensure that you receive this mail…” and then they tell you what to do? If you didn’t get the email, you aren’t going to know what to do. If you do get the mail, do they not understand how annoying…

  • Wonder what happened

    I heard about this somewhere else. I’ve wondered what happened. see more Fail Blog I think I heard about it on Stop the ACLU. But I couldn’t find any updates on what happened to the guy who put graffiti on the graffiti wall.

  • Be careful what you say on the phone.

    A person I was speaking with today learned that lesson. I had called her and been told I had to talk to person B. I called person B and talked to them. They said it was okay with them but the first person (A) would have to make the final decision. So B transferred me…

  • Spellcheckers and Obama

    I’m just wondering how soon spellcheckers will recognize Obama. Just wondering.

  • Have you ever been overwhelmed by a project?

    I know the simple thing is to break it down into smaller pieces and get each one done. But today that isn’t working to fool me into doing it. Instead I am thinking about the twenty or thirty small pieces it will take to get done. I’m not liking that at all.

  • Is Santa Claus real?

    A young girl I tutor in reading asked me this question this week. My boys didn’t grow up with Santa. I frankly told them that he was a myth and that we were Santa. They quietly kept the secret when other kids talked. When my boys were older they told me their kids were going…

  • Bone church?

    Is this bone church? The address is from the Czech Republic, I think.

  • US Blocking Conservative Blogs

    Gates of Vienna has been blocked, along with all blogspot addresses and many other conservative blogs, by the US Dept of the Interior. Big liberal blogs are still available. I think, most likely, this is an artifact of the new blocking system that they installed. But I know that it had to have been some…

  • Backyard History

    Musings on a different (for me) approach to teaching history and my plan for doing it this year. My youngest is a history fiend. He loves history. He loves alternate history. He knows folks I’ve never heard of in history. (I was a history major in my undergrad.) And at the ripe old age of…

  • Rapping Apple Software Writer’s Knuckles

    (I had some other title, but I figured my husband wouldn’t read the post as it was. So I came up with that title, which is accurate, but much longer than I had originally intended.) Language Log has a post about a dialog box that pops up on the mailer and isn’t linguistically coherent. What…

  • Watching TV

    Sometimes even watching true programs, like “Get Color,” can lead one to imagine things that are not true. How much money do those people have to agree to spend? Just two days ago I was watching several Tivo’ed programs. And the hostess of “Get Color” mentioned that the floors were done in jatoba wood. It’s…

  • What do you do?

    What do you do when someone you know and admire loses the most important person in their life? Especially when they don’t know you. I’ll say a prayer for the three of them tonight.

  • Gas?

    I have finally decided that the all-knowing they are just flat out WRONG. Look here on June 4 and tell me if you’ve ever looked like that when you’ve had gas. I’ve never looked like that from gas. So why would a baby? While you are there you could read about Keith’s travails with his…

  • Memes: from Boudicca’s Voice

    I like memes. Most people don’t tag me because I read a lot more blogs than read me. (That’s okay. I am a prolific reader, even if I do say so myself. Doesn’t make it less so.) There have been two recently, among my daily read blogs, that I was interested enough in to want…

  • Fake Police

    Three armed men posing as police officers tried to make their way into a home near Memorial Park but the homeowner fought back. Police say that around 3am Monday, three men walked up to a home on Kiam near Arabelle and started banging on the front door claiming they were police officers. Someone in the…

  • 6 Degrees of Meme

    Andrea and Ron (and I wonder who they are) have a new scientific experiment going (which sounds fascinating), here’s how it works: (But it only works if YOU participate. Please consider it.) There is a game known as ‘6 Degrees of Separation’ (from Kevin Bacon). The way the game works is to try to connect…

  • Knowing Your Beloved

    Given a list of desserts, could you pick your beloved’s top three? For instance, what would your man or woman like the best out of these? New York Style Cheesecake Strawberry daquiri cheesecake Italian cream cake Bananas Foster cake Key Lime Pie Rum Pecan Pie Dark and white chocolate mousse Creme Brulee Tiramisu Warm apple…

  • How do you say Thank You?

    I’ve been trying to get stuff together to send soldiers who have been injured and are at Walter Reed cards. I’ve almost got three per person. I’ve sent some and will send some more today. That’s not enough. But I don’t know what else to do. Then today I took my car in to get…

  • ID and Genesis 1

    I’ve been talking to a friend, who is a scientist, about creationism and evolution. Honestly, I don’t have much of a background in the areas necessary to cover this. I think I read a really long and involved blog post about the topic about a year and a half ago, but I have no idea…