UVA Capture The Flag

UVA has two large groups of scholars. Echols is the group for its College of Arts and Sciences; and the Engineering school has the Rodman scholars. And they are going to have a Capture the Flag competition. There is a registration fee but the proceeds all go an orphans fund! Great fun and a good cause all rolled into one! College is SO much fun!

Science IQ

We have discovered a new wonderful show on the Science channel called Science IQ. It is great so far. the host is Michio Kaku who is terrific. Everyone save this time slot for this show!

Thank You Google

We must thank Google and Blogger for coming up with the idea of making blogs so easy to have! It is a wonderful way to communicate with others and much faster than emails to groups. It also allows others in your life to control how much they want to know about you or your family. If they are not interested, then they do not have to visit the blog; i.e. it is much less invasive than an email in your face. Thanks so much to Google. [sound of applause]

By the way, if a blog disappears, you can tell if it has been moved or deleted. If the blog has been moved, then its old address becomes available. If it has been deleted, then the address is still in use (blogger never really deletes any material -- see previous post on this). Sometimes it is a good thing to move blogs and give the new address only to those you want to look at the blog.

Kudos and kudos to Google. The founders are truly visionaries. They are making the world a better place.

More Riddles

1) What do you call a zipper on a banana?

2) What do you call a kitten drinking lemonade?

3) When does a boat show affection?

Riddle

Here is a great riddle! Don't forget the hints page (see under links on this blog) if you need it.

Voiceless it cries
Mouthless it mutters
Toothless it bites
Wingless it flutters.

What is it?

Happy Spring

SPRING POOLS
by Robert Frost

These pools that, though in forests, still reflect
The total sky almost without defect,
And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver,
Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone,
And yet not out by any brook or river,
But up by roots to bring dark foliage on.

The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
To darken nature and be summer woods -
Let them think twice before they use their powers
To blot out and drink up and sweep away
These flowery waters and these watery flowers
From snow that melted only yesterday.

Happy St. Patty's Day

Afterlife

Watching an old episode of Star Trek Voyager that dealt with death and afterlife gave me a thought.
We often wonder if there is something after we die, an afterlife. But what if we are an afterlife?
In other words, what if we are the result of the death of some other life form.
For those who believe in a "judgement day" or life after death. Maybe it happened and we are the result.

Band of Brothers

We finished watching "Band of Brothers" mini-series and it is excellent. War is horrible and it shows just how horrible it is. It wraps up showing very effectively why we did it, and just how awful the concentration camps were. Insane people, like Hitler, like Osama Bin Laden and his cohorts, will unfortunately always exist; so there will always be war. What a pity. But the mini-series is definitely worth watching.

Carnegie Mellon Free Courses

Carnegie Mellon now has several free course. These are very complete including computerized grading. The logic and Proof appears to be a good companion for those who have had little to no proof experience.

http://oli.web.cmu.edu/jcourse/webui/free.do

Square Root Day

In case it totally slipped your mind and you forgot to dress up, yesterday (March, 3, 09) was Square Root Day 3/3/09 (3 is the square root of 9 or 3 times 3 is 9.)

But not to worry, you'll get another chance on 4/4/16. This gives you plenty of time to get prepared. Of course, according to the Mayans, the world is going to end in 2012.

Others:
1/1/01
2/2/04
5/5/25
Hopefully you get the idea.

Don't forget the upcoming PI day, March 14th (3/14 - 3.14) and prepare for the biggy PI day on 3/14/15 when we get 3.1415. I'm sure everyone knows at least a few digits - 3.1415926535897...

Aren't numbers fun?
What could enhance your day more!

Electricity Is Awesome

We were SO COLD that when the heat came on we started to feel ho at 63 degrees! But a meal and lots of water and putting the house back to normal cured that. Now we are at a comfy 68 downstairs (gas heat) and 67 upstairs (heat pump). Feels SOOOOOOOO good.

Sunny Day

After an extremely cold night ( single digits), it is a beautiful sunny day here. Many places are closed. We stayed warm last night by fireplace, space heater and by hugging dogs. Our cable TV came on and then disappeared again, but we were able to watch a few TV shows and 11 o'clock news. Hopefully, the electricity will be on before dinner.

Snow Snow Snow ...and No Power

Wow!! We have TONS of snow. We lost power about 9PM last night but we have the generator going this morning plus a fire in the fireplace. The generator is allowing us to preserve our food in the refrigerator, have DSL, TV, DVD, Nancy Drew, electric fry pan, microwave, and cable when the cable company begins transmitting again. Not all that many people are without power so hopefully we will have it up soon..... Oh, we have a gas water heater so we have nice toasty hot water.

How To tell If Your Cats are Getting Ready

Here is a very helpful site for cat owners!! http://www.catswhothrowupgrass.com/kill.php

Blizzard Here

We are in the middle of a VA blizzard (VA blizzards would not be considered blizzards in Buffalo)! More pictures will follow in the morning as the snow is supposed to continue ALL NIGHT!!!!