Here's what we watched together on Saturday Night: The Royal Shakespeare Company's film adaptation of Hamlet, the Bard's amazing ghost story / whodunit / will-he-do-it tragedy, starring, to our science fiction fan kids' delight, Patrick … [Continue reading]
Boy. Dog.
Classic
March 13, 2010 By 1 Comment
Boy. Dog. Classic. Boy. Dog. Mop. Also classic. More pics: Life with Cocoa Bean … [Continue reading]
Madison Reads Leopold, 2010
March 6, 2010 By 1 Comment
From the portion of A Sand County Almanac that I read aloud as part of Madison Reads Leopold 2010 at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum: "We have erected a monument to commemorate the funeral of a species. It symbolizes our sorrow. We grieve … [Continue reading]
ABCDEF GHIJKLM NOPQRS TUVWXYZ
or, The First Meme
February 27, 2010 By 2 Comments
BHoff was bored, so he posted a meme: Lets Play: URL ABC. Acrostics -- lists and songs arranged alphabetically -- are of course a venerable tradition, uniting the ancient author of Psalm 119 with the youngest child learning to sing the ABC Song. One … [Continue reading]
Little Things
or, The Lives of the Flu Cell
November 14, 2009 By 1 Comment
Here's a wonderful animation developed by pharmaceutical biotech company Zirus, Inc., and shared with us by National Public Radio: This little animation was great fun to watch with with my 8-yr-old-with-mad-scientist tendencies; and it was just … [Continue reading]