Apr 232008
 

The Guinness Book of World Records recently named Alia Sabur as the youngest college professor in the history of the world. She was hired as a physics and math instructor in the Department of Advanced Technology Fusion at Konkuk University in South Korea – before her 18th birthday. The previous record was held by a [...]

Apr 212008
 

Maegan’s swing set broke last weekend so I had to go to The Home Depot to pick up some bolts to fix it. While I was there I picked up a baby swing for Darah.

Apr 212008
 

Saturday morning I got up at sunrise and took Maegan to Carowinds Amusement Park. Her class was walking for charity to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. This was the 18th annual walk, which started and ended at Carowinds. 6,500 walkers participated, and I was one of them too. Most other parents dropped [...]

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Apr 182008
 

Warning: First part of this story is not happy. Last week we noticed a small egg in the flower basket on our front porch. The egg wasn’t in a nest and it wasn’t being cared for as far as we could tell. two days ago we came home found the flowers out of the pot [...]

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Apr 182008
 

Against all odds, North Carolina’s primary will actually matter this year, and quite a bit too since we have a disproportionate amount of delegates up for grabs. For weeks now there have been television and radio ads for both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, but this one in particular caught my eye. Politics completely aside, [...]

Apr 182008
 

As I mentioned earlier, Maegan and I planted a letterbox while vacationing in Florida last week. I was worried about whether the box would survive even a few days. It is planted inside an incredibly busy three-story playground. I had either found a brilliant hiding spot right beneath a thousand kids’ noses, or it would [...]

Apr 182008
 

All of my websites went down for an unbearable 100 hours a month ago. Even when they finally came back online I’ve continued to have tons problems with things missing or not working, and my host’s tech support has been absolutely horrible. Well you may have noticed that all of my websites were down again [...]

Apr 172008
 

I haven’t written anything in my blog since vacation, but I’ve been jotting down notes on subjects I want to talk about when I get a chance. That chance isn’t right now but I’m warning that a small avalanche of trivial posts will soon be comin’ all at once.