> “Way to ruin my night vision Dad” At 4:20AM on Thursday Morning, I and the_weapon like the rest of the world bundled ourselves up in our warmest gear and left our toasty beds and sat in the back yard to watch the longest total lunar eclipse I have seen in my lifetime. It was wonderful, from 4:20 when [...]
Warning this post will contain clowns
The_weapon is going up from the cub scouts to the scouts in the first week of next year. He could have gone up sooner but since they will be loosing me as a leader form cubs to scouts they wanted to hang on as long as possible. The 2nd badge he will earn is scoutcraft. [...]
Happy Sagan Day
In respect of the birthday of one of the best advocates of science, atheism and skepticism (like those three aren’t inexorably bound) I have ever heard, the centre for Inquiry, Florida Atheists and Secular Huminanists, the James Randi Educational Foundation and a bunch of other folk are promoting Carl Sagan Day. You’ll probably come across a [...]
A fine Halloween
Sometimes things just don’t work out despite you best laid plans. But sometimes the wind is right, and the star align just so and a plan comes together. Like this Halloween, Samhain, Day of the Dead (not the Romeroesque one) or All Souls Night whatever you want to call it. After some of the pinheaded [...]
We got it right this time
Today I took the_weapon to get the latest influenza vaccine that’s become available this past week at the local medical centre. For $14 not only does he get increased protection against the (hopefully) upcoming seasonal flu but it also includes the H1N1 Vaccine so he has some protection against swine flu as well. As a [...]
Family values
The past couple of weeks the_weapon and I have been getting up at sparrowsfart to get him in for training. He is on the Falcon Academy team swim and they got through the district competition and on to the zones and regionals. At the last meet I was sitting with the_weapon while we watched the [...]
I’m a better parent than Nicolas Cage
Like every other parent I try to help my off-spring to be a strong, self reliant, mult-skilled survivor of the coming Zombie apocalypse. From the how-to-make-yourself Apocalypse ready guide here giving him cooking skills based on the London chef Will Sprunt’s Apocalypse chow, and signing him up for CDC’s Disease Detective Camp for the holidays [...]
I hate motherhood statements
The Falcon Academy’s handbook states they have ‘…a zero tolerance to bullying‘. Does anyone know any educational facility that claims to have anything OTHER than a zero tolerance to bullying? Anyone claiming a 25% tolerance, or a tolerance to within an acceptable margins, a zero plus or minus 2% tolerance? Didn’t think so. Couldn’t we [...]
C.P Snow’s Two Cultures are battling it out in Suburban Melbourne
I am a scientist by nature and training, while my_reason_for_living is a big brained Ph.D of Humanities. So we are waged in a constant struggle over where the heart and mind of the nine year old weapon_against_society will lead. I am pleased to declare that the forces of order and light have won a significant [...]
Waiting for the letter
Book Week at school brings its own special brand of fun
