Archive for January, 2007

Friday Cate: Just hanging out

Friday, January 5th, 2007

Here’s something for our family members and friends who visit the blog for baby pictures.

Cate’s just hanging out in her chair, with her paci and her Pooh bear by her side.

[Cate: Just hanging out]
Just hanging out …

Friday cat: Two peas in a pod

Friday, January 5th, 2007

This is a rare sight in our house – our two girls sharing the same chair.

[Rusty and Ash]
Rusty and Ash: Two peas in a pod

Of course, the girls scattered just after I took the picture.

The power of what?

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

An educator’s inbox is regularly crammed full with all sorts of things. Here’s a sample from this morning.

I try to use innovative teaching methods, but I don’t think I will be using the power of this particular innovation in my classroom.

There’s got to be a Monty Python joke in here somewhere …

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

From (where else), the BBC:

Parrot’s oratory stuns scientists

The bird, a captive African grey called N’kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour.

He invents his own words and phrases if he is confronted with novel ideas with which his existing repertoire cannot cope – just as a human child would do.

I bet, though, that his plumage is nowhere near as beautiful as a Norwegian Blue’s …