Archive for August, 2009

Ard School of Arts and Sciences – week 3

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

What we’re doing is covering all of the history of everything in chronological order, week by week. Remember, the first week was our sun and where it came from. Then atoms and matter and the basic forces that hold it all together. Then this week was the formation of planets and our solar system.
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Great works

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Tonight I cut my own hair with scissors. It… well really? it doesn’t look that great but hey neither did my greasy/boring nothing hairstyle. Nicolaus was fascinated by it and told me that I didn’t look like Tiffany anymore. He said that now I look more like Athena, who he pictures to have short hair [...]

The Ard School of Arts and Sciences 2009, Week 2

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

The theme for week 2 was:
Atoms and the four fundamental forces. So what did the early universe spit out? What the heck is matter made of? Why and how does it act the way it does?
Those are big questions, especially considering that chemistry and subatomic wizzywazzits have always been hard for my brain to process. [...]

For immediate release

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

1. Thank you to everyone who helped give good homes with plenty of room to run to all of my free Nerdy Baby stuff. I still have two boxes of roughly 50 ABC flash card sets. They are by the door, waiting for an address label. Each would cost no more than $30 to ship [...]

Clash of the organs

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

I don’t know why Kevin can’t be more supportive of my dream of someday being a floating head in a jar. They have them in lots of movies about the future, and the barriers to bringing this technology to market seem mostly related to FDA hangups and funding. But whenever I say man, I so [...]