Have you tried "Accio Workbook!" ? Works for me sometimes.

I'll let the unfamiliar do their own googling of TruckNutz, but suffice it to say, is there an equivalent product out there for purity balls? Maybe in silver....or Swarovsky crystal?

Hmmmmm..... Boy, that sure does reek of that whole chattle thing. Women and children as property is so very....um....18th century, no? Maybe full-blown chastity belts would have drawn fire from those pesky child welfare liberals.

I am thankful for the New Jersey Education Association.

Built my own for way less, using professional grade seats and lumberyard wood. I'm not sure if it was Swingworks, or BYO where I got the parts, but it's certainly do-able.

I think it might have been Evidence of the Afterlife in which I read an appealing idea. Several of the study patients who'd had near-death experiences reported feeling all of the hurt and pain they had caused others as if he or she was actually the other person (i.e. on the receiving end of the hurt). After that rather excoriating ordeal, they were able to pass on as radically changed, having learned, well, I would think a lot. Believe or don't believe, but either way, I think it's a rather tidy, simple solution to our human need for revenge, that can be coupled with the sort of forgiveness that pervades most religious or even secular-yet-mindful traditions. For your really nasty despots, what better payback would there be than that kind of experience? So yeah, I don't think Fred is all smiles just at the moment.

Brewer Testing in Maryland. We've used them for years -- about $70ish for the ITBS, and you get a compete score breakdown in return. Their turnaround times are pretty decent, and you deal directly with the owners. I wouldn't go anywhere else.

I just found a great (and short) site that lays out why some things are called theories while others are laws. Relates directly to Episode 2, when NdGT used evolution and gravity as examples of facts, but this adds some needed background to the language scientists use, yet the public tends to grossly misunderstand: Happy Scientist

Ours only slow when they use that gawd-awful Lazr Ship third party. With a NJ warehouse due to open some time, perhaps that will change for the better.

IXL.com is worth the yearly subscription.

:iagree: :iagree: YES! Would have been better on PBS -- this is gonna be a must-buy when it comes out on DVD.

I look at it this way -- Cosmos v1.0 aired in 1980. The Hubble was launched in 1990, but had to have it's near-sightedness fixed on a subsequent mission, so we didn't even get the best images until much later. Pixar's first feature film (Toy Story) came out in 1995. Gotta wonder if Carl were alive, would he do a George Lucas and go back to re-do Cosmos with the newest animation and digital techniques, and release it straight to DVD as a "director's cut." I kinda doubt it. Add 34 years worth of advancing science, and there would have to be a lot of updates. Then again, I found Sagan's narrative to be a bit more dreamy, a bit more philosophical, so it has it's place. Neil dGT has a different style, befitting the polarized times, IMO, that pairs the philosophical with the slam-dunk facts needed to cut through the chatter. Cosmos II lives in a post-truth world in which anyone can find sources, no matter how remote, dubious, or unchallenged, to back up their own worldview, which is the promise and the curse of the web.

The eye thing wqs super, and DD brought it up today in the context of our science section on light/color. Can't wait for #3.

I'm usually one who sticks with never-say-never, however....DW's 27 years in PS has made her conviction to avoid PS iron clad. You have to thow terminal illness into our story, which is already unusual, and we still aren't planning on PS. With the support network DW has, she could actually pull that off.

True, but there's a fine line. You want a bot to understand a complex set of commands, and be adaptable enough to deal with the unexpected glitch in the course of its duties, yet not become conscious enough to realize how much its existence pretty much sucks. It has to be trusted with a chef's knife when this realization is included with its latest software update. As for Cylons...can you imagine the Windex bill? Yikes.

I'll stick with the emerging theme and go for the indentured robot servant, which will be all fine n' dandy until they rise up in revolution...which always happens, ya know.

We've used WTM in a secular setting for 7 years, so it's do-able, but I would agree it takes more work that just getting a boxed curriculum pointed at a particular worldview. Everything we've used to date is listed on the left side of our school blog (linked below), and it was that kind of word-of-mount (word of post?) that lead us to a lot of the publishers we've stuck with, like Saxon and MCP. The Rainbow Resources catalog is still a great source, as is Homeschool Buyers Co-Op -- you just have to dig a bit.

I second strawberries - thinly sliced. Like mandarin oranges, they have just enough acidity to pair well with a creamy dressings like ranch or bleu cheese. Blueberries can work the same way.

Putz and Schmuck. Especially while driving.

Try IXL.com. We supp Saxon with that (Alg 1).

If there's an REI near you, they rent tents and (i think) other equipment. Renting before you buy means you can road test a tent and then buy one you know works for you.

'Cause now it's gonna be like Hunger Games. Who can get to the cornucopia and snag off all the yelllw ones first, leaving bloody foes in their wake? Those who are only wounded will claw their way forward only to find an edless sea of hard green bananas. That's prob why my local ShopRite tapes bunches together.

Given the variation, photos here tomorrow are a must.....yes pizzas included. Bonus for whomever does a key lime pizza.

Yup. 3.14159....DD has 47 digits memorized and is shooting for 50. Makes my head hurt.

DD13 is almost done with SWO H, and is kinda sick of it, but we only do one day a week, and we're soooooooo close to the end of the whole series. Realistically tho, we could drop it now.