As part of the local Tracking the Otter series, we went to the beach on Thursday to study history with other homeschool friends. In 1841, American surveyor Captain Wilkes sailed into this bay with two vessels. He named the island Bainbridge. His crew documented some of the flora and fauna, writing up a report that […]
Entries from June 2004
Explorers
June 6th, 2004 · Comments Off on Explorers
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Better than MTV
June 6th, 2004 · Comments Off on Better than MTV
I needed to work in the kitchen Friday morning, so while I was putting away the dishes, I let the girls watch videos… on my laptop…clicking on links in my aggregator. It started Thursday night when I saw A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Microsoft Lenn Pryor’s interview with Eric Rudder in my Channel 9 video feed […]
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Betraying the age
June 4th, 2004 · 3 Comments
Through Janece at Workings of the Mind, I read Bono’s Commencement Address to U Penn. My favorite passage is this one. There’s a truly great Irish poet his name is Brendan Kennelly, and he has this epic poem called the Book of Judas, and there’s a line in that poem that never leaves my mind, […]
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What it means to live under a totalitarian regime
June 4th, 2004 · 1 Comment
Yan at Glutter has been writing about democracy in Hong Kong and the 15th anniversary of the Tianamen Square demonstrations: Maybe that’s what it means to live under a totalitarian regime. You feel DEFLATED. It’s so bothersome that those thought are better not to be had. To ignore things that doesn’t concern you directly in […]
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I missed the meteor
June 3rd, 2004 · 2 Comments
I felt guilty last night for my lack of discipline. I went to bed late, later than my limits allow. But if I had stayed up another hour, I might have justified my indulgence by the experience I missed: it’s not every day we get to see a meteor: A meteor about the size of […]
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