Elizabeth Moon's Blog, page 83

From Twitter 06-06-2010

14:21:33: First truly unpleasant weather day of summer: high 90s F, v.high humidity, pale glary sky. Was 80F at dawn.
18:16:14: New post up at http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/ with pictures of prairie flowers and critters.
18:16:52: New post up at http://www.speedofdark-thebook.com/blog/
22:08:04: RT @kaysea14: Kiva - Nasiba Agakishiyeva from Azerbaijan has a loan fundraising on Kiva: http://www.kiva.org/lend/205101 via @addthis
22:08:36: RT @kaysea14: Runoff for the Dem senatorial candidate...

From Twitter 06-05-2010

12:03:59: 95F in the carport shade. I went out on the small tractor to check water at OwlPav (as far from house as land goes)...we need RAIN.
13:27:37: Saw & photographed new-to-us small moth today. Images at http://bugguide.net/node/view/405809/bgimage

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From Twitter 06-04-2010

10:48:26: Rule 1 of Cartography--Thou shalt not eat saltine crackers at the drafting table. (Bad habits of computer user crumble home to roost.)
17:52:56: RT @kaysea14: RT @wonkette Wonkette : Arizona School Demands Black & Latino Students' Faces On Mural Be Changed .. http://bit.ly/axdBOr
18:28:32: I've now done an LJ post about the Arizona school surrendering to racist pressure: http://e-moon60.livejournal.com/
19:04:41: Is there a _Music Theory for Dummies_?
19:12:24: Another "feared lost...

Something to Cry About

Arizona's getting quite a reputation on race issues, and the white racists of Arizona seem to be in the mood to extend their attacks to schoolchildren.   At an Arizona elementary school, a mural of the school's multi-racial children has been the target of vicious, racist attack...because it showed brown-faced and black-faced children in the mural (like the ones in the actual school.   And now, the school principal, yielding to the racists, has ordered artists to lighten the faces of the...

From Twitter 06-03-2010

09:52:51: Sometimes I just can't avoid putting my foot down. In the Stuff. Well, I never claimed to be Perfect.
12:18:46: Smart writer/cartographers keep all the detail maps with the master map in the same map tube. Says the not-so-smart one.
12:19:47: If not, the hunt for the missing ones, and the attempt to print replacements exactly right size takes DAYS and DAYS and stress explodes.
12:20:48: But the lost is found (still curly from year in tube) and I think a ration of chocolate is...

Wdnesday: headache, choir, and storms

The brooding, muggy weather yesterday did end in storms (and my headache went with them, for a time) but in between I did battle with M'-s router (partial success, but still required rescue by more tech-savvy friends.  Among their interventions was telling ZoneAlarm that yes, the router's number-thingie was OK (there's a word...I'm not able to think of it this afternoon.  That's because the headache has returned, it's muggy again, and my brain feels as stuffy as my sinuses.)

Thanks to them...

From Twitter 06-02-2010

08:30:10: A headache day. It was going to be a headache OF a day, anyway, but now there's an actual life-sized headache in my head to start with.

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Schooling

Between the Science article on science literacy and education, and a program item I saw on Nightline last night about a family doing "unschooling" in Massachusetts, my head is about to burst. 

First, some personal history.   I did well in a very limited public school system (south Texas, 1951-1963)--underfunded, overcrowded (40 in many elementary school classes), old textbooks, and some seriously bad teachers (a few really good ones, a lot of mediocre ones, some VERY bad--abusive, dishonest, ...

Quiet "home" header...ahhhhh...

Having complained, I should note that the header to my "home" in LJ is back to being a nice quiet dark blue--shading to lighter with the LJ logo over on the right but still quiet and plain and unobtrusive.  That happened...yesterday I think, but maybe Monday.

I don't know if everyone's experiencing a lack of something new, or if they just haven't put up the new one voted on yet, or if they've taken me off the automatic updating loop.  But I like it.    Much easier to read the buttons, much...

From Twitter 06-01-2010

08:23:05: Frustration w/Science online access--husband has forgotten username & password set up on different computer years ago.
11:18:30: Already afternoon and not enough done. (Runs screaming into the day...)
13:21:20: Too long a story for Twitter...email me.

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