April 17, 2010

Short Updates

Posted by Scott at 11:59 PM

Yawn! Good morning! I love Saturday mornings. I get to sleep in. Often Michelle brings me up some coffee and a lil' something to eat. I can catch up on a little reading. The kids aren't rushed and don't have to worry about school drop offs. There's plenty of prayer time. I get to go to the gym and enjoy a class. Yep, here's to Saturdays! 6:31am

Back from a good Step & abs class. Work preempted going Monday and Thursday this past week. Felt good to have the time to go again. 11:05am

Thinking that my nerdy project this month might be to do the Wii Homebrew hack, install a hard drive on the Wii, and put all of our Wii games on the drive. 11:58am

Took Michelle and the boys out for lunch at Cafe on the Oval. 1:09pm

It's a dank, 40°F afternoon here in southern NH. Watched episode 2 of the new season of Dr. Who: "The Beast Below" with my boys. 1:56pm

Bookmarks I made today:

Editorial: America doesn't have a prayer - Washington Times
Comment: Hat tip to Paul Rolanti.
Excerpt: it was a singular case of bad timing last week when Judge Barbara B. Crabb of the U.S. District Court in Madison, Wis., ruled that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. National days of prayer have been declared since the earliest days of the republic. The National Day of Prayer does not e...

Read It Later: Save Your One Read Wonders
Comment: I wanted to recommend this for office desk workers. If a friend or social network sends you a link to an article that you would like to read, but are too busy with work, use Read It Later to add the article to your queue. Later when you have free time, you can catch up on your article reading queue. Read It Later is like disposable bookmarks.
Excerpt: Save Pages to Read Later. Eliminate cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.

About Scratch | Scratch Documentation Site
Comment: Has anyone tried this? Check the intro videos out. It looks like something kids could really have fun with. Barb Begley Gilman, has your school seen this?
Excerpt: As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

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