January 2010
102 posts
“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole...”
– Ray Bradbury (via booklover)
Great news today - my brother called to say he will be commissioned into the Army in two weeks. This has been a lifelong dream of his (right up there with being captain of his hs football team, check!).
He missed the big ceremony with his peers last May (that whole blowing out his knee, getting knee surgery and then learning how to walk/run again kind of got in the way). This will be more of a...
“If you don’t make a mistake, you’re not trying hard enough.”
– Charlie Parker (via jazzchannel)
DonorsChoose.org - help public schools who've... →
One of my girls teaches in Brooklyn. It’s a high poverty area (meaning the average income of a family of four is less than $23,920 a year) and she has numerous horror stories of not being able to accommodate all of the kids she is assigned. Two recent examples: she doesn’t have enough desks in her classroom for her average class size (she’s about 17 short and often has kids...
placidhips:
therealestsocksinthegame:
yosamanthrax:
3 million people are in need of food and water in Haiti right now. The World Food Programme has so far donated 250,000 rations but they say they need to donate 100 million rations within the next month. They have received enough donations for 16 million rations. Click here to help.
My two sisters are watching Charlie's Angels: Full...
A sexy, Irish mob guy comes onscreen...
Sister One: Why isn't he wearing a shirt?
Sister Two: Because God loves me.
now i know why they make plastic tools for...
bigjon:
There’s a pegboard on the wall in the storage closet with several of my tools hanging on it. When I take William in there, he frequently reaches for them. He especially likes the tape measure. Just now, he really wanted to get his hands on one of my awesome metric ratcheting wrenches. I can’t blame him. They are very shiny. So like a dumbass I handed it to him, at which point he gave it...
