CarpeBanana - Homeschool Blogger

63% Asleep

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:04:00 -0600

This entry has an apologetic tone. That is because I am such a doofus.

I lay in bed this morning trying to decide if it really was warm enough to get out from under the blankets or not. During that time of semi-wakefulness, I composed three great blog entries. As soon as I got up, I jotted down enough of each idea that I'd be able to post the entry. Wonderful - I figured I was set for posts for the next week or two. As I count, that was my first mistake.

I wanted to link to my Miss Language's blog and also to her friend's. So I dutifully sent off an e-mail, making sure that was OK. There was my second mistake.

So now, they are reminding me I have not posted yet. So I went and grabbed the list so I could spout off with this wonderful post, first of three. (Yep, third mistake and here I shall quit counting.)

I grab the list and what does it say:

black holes/FB

Outwitted/Fort Knox

type-O angels/HS

and I have almost no idea what it means. Now, I know I should quit while I am behind, as the saying goes, but as I say, I have quit counting mistakes so here goes.

The first part (black holes/FB) had something to do with a comment I saw on Devastatingly Handsome's FB about FB being one of the biggest black holes in the universe, and then there was a comment about "what do you mean, 'one of'?" And I know that somehow I then had hold (in my semi-waking state) of a brilliant insight about the nature of black holes and I am pretty sure about whether or not relative sizes comparisons are, well, relative or not. And I think it had a tie-in with Francis Bacon. But beyond that... no idea. My great blog post was sucked away as by a black hole.

And then part two, the Outwitted/Fort Knox was going to be something beautiful and inspiring about Edwin Markham's poem "Outwitted"
He drew a circle that shut me out—
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in!

and how it applies to some people we know, in particular one whose heart has been locked down tighter than Fort Knox since toddlerdom. However I know nothing about the brilliance of this post whatsoever.

And the final thing on my list (type-O angels/HS) was from a chat I had with Miss L's friend. We were talking about a matter for prayer and I thought I had the name wrong. She told me it would be ok, something like there were angels who correct type-Os (is that spelled right?) in prayers. It occurred to me that the Holy Spirit does that on a major level, not a spell checker so much as a prayer checker. But, again, I have No Idea where I was going to go with any sort of insight.

So, today's moral: my first thoughts of the day are probably not the best. Let's hope not. And even if they are, I can't hold onto them.

Perpendicularity

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:01:00 -0600

A few days ago, I dunno why, maybe it's swine flu in the news, I found myself thinking about a little buddy of mine from my freshman year in college.

Francis Bacon.

Francis Bacon is a small pig. He looks a lot like this fellow, only he is

2.5 centimeters long from snout to tail. He lived in my soap dish and I had to be careful he wouldn't go down the drain when I showered.

Some people thought he was not real because they did not see him, only my sketches of him. That is because he lives in a different dimension, so you can only see him (and he appears flat) when that dimension is exactly perpendicular to ours, or at least that's my understanding of the phenomenon.

I started thinking about angels and how they seem to move in a different plane than ours, too. Maybe you can see them, or a bend in the light, when their dimension is perpendicular to ours. I thought that was maybe a rabbit trail, or a pig trail, but don't know enough about pigs in general to know if they make trails or not.

In related deep metaphysical wondering, I am wondering what other beings exist in time at all. I wonder if we are the only ones. I am not too convinced time even exists for creatures like dogs. And certainly not small outlined pigs.

Saxon Math Strikes Again

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:44:00 -0600

Miss Dog Lover is on the final lesson in 7/6, wherein they introduce finding the volume of a cylinder by saying "Imagine pressing a quarter down into a block of soft clay. As the quarter is pressed into the block, it creates a hole in the clay. The quarter sweeps out a cylinder as it moves through the clay. We can calculate the volume of the cylinder by multiplying the area of the circular face of the quarter by the distance it moved through the clay."

At this point I stopped reading, looked at her blank face, and said, "Do you understand what they are talking about?"

Miss Dog Lover, "I understand but it sounds sort of useless. Who would want to put a quarter in clay? It's messy."

There ya go.