Carnival of Kid Comedy #3 is up and the NerdBug’s silliness is mentioned! Thanks Life in a Shoe for hosting!

I was cruising some of the other pro-homeschooling blogs and found The Common Room: Outrage of another sort. She pointed out the problem this piece of a poli sci lecture:

“Bottom line: We can reasonably conclude that infant mortality would appear to be a more pressing policy priority in a poor country like Cuba than it is in the United States. You should be outraged, especially given the disparity in the wealth of the two countries.”

Did it ever accur that leaving some things out of the goverment policy wonk’s hands might be the reason for success? It is stuff like this and geography teachers who say that Bush is like Hitler, that convince me I can homeschool. BTW what does that have to do with geography?

I have figured out why all the anger and back biting is in the blogosphere. It appears to be the only way to get comment traffic. It appears that if you post positive, non-inflammitory and informative items no one has anything to say. Come on people and prove me wrong. If you like see something that is interesting, say so and why! I find this not only on my site but others also. Let us revolutionize the blogosphere.

The Homeschooling Carnival is up over at Phat Mommy. Check it out!

Ok, so while I am ironing and trying to convince the older 2 nerdlings to take a nap, I am also finishing a pretty good movie. Now that I have 3 kids I watch movies in pieces. So, on to the movie…I just finished watching Monster-in-Law with Jennifer Lopez. I was expecting a fluffy light hearted movie and that is what I got. I have to say that it was better than I expected. The story line was mostly concerning the Jane Fonda character and the J-Lo character. I was pleased to see that Michael Vartan’s character wasn’t the idiot male character that is prevelant in these chick flicks. It was really clean, which was somewhat shocking given the subject. I would recommend this as a date movie. Now, NerdDad did opt out of this movie but I wanted to watch something while he was at work. So that is just my 2 cents, what did the rest of you think of the movie?

So the NerdBug was talking to NerdDad while he was changing the baby. So NerdBug is going through and asking his many questions(you know how 4 year olds are). “I am better than Nerdling at walking, right?” (NerdDad, “right”) “I am better than Nerdling at talking, right?” (NerdDad, “right”) “I am better than Nerdling at eating, right?” (NerdDad, “right”) “I am better than Nerdling, right?” At this NerdDad agrees and then does a bit of the spit take. They go through the whole process. NerdBug says how he is better than the baby in all these things so he must be better than the baby. NerdDad tried to explain how those things are not the true value of the person. As NerdDad is laughing and explaining this to me, it hits me. Now if you see the NerdBug, he is the spitting image of his father as a boy but has been cursed with my personality(let us just say it is much cuter on a child than it is on me). But, we have found NerdDad in the personality! His ego! Now as many of you know, NerdDad is brilliant but also is self assured in this fact, something that the NerdBug has apparently inheretted. Please do not think that NerdDad has a huge ego but he is very comfortable in his brilliance. It is going to be interesting to see how that manifests itself as the NerdBug grows in intellect. Stay tuned for future reports;).

So the other day I was sick, laying on the couch while the kids were napping and watching Beaches . The next thing I know I am tearing up and thinking about my childhood friends. Despite all the nerdiness and type-A personality, I really am a girl;). So I realize that I have 3 friends that I was pretty close with, that I don’t talk to or really know where they are. Friendship to me is both different and similar to the friendship on the movie. All 3 of these friends were very different than me in some ways. While we didn’t always agree completely, we never fought like on the movie. Though, like on the movie, they were all prettier than me, more popular than me and more talented than me. I learned different things from each of them and felt their acceptance. Now, I did a little Google search and found one but I am still complete missing the other 2. So if Cindy Veldin, Susan McNeil, or Nancy Epling are out there reading this(and yes I realize that some of you are now married)and remember Jackie Little, please let me know! Oh, Bridget, I include you in this group but I know where you are and what you are up to;).

This is a big week for our family for religious holidays. First this week was Purim. For those of you who don’t know, this is the celebration from Esther. Why celebrate Purim. First, it is a great illustration of God using people to do His work, shown through Esther saving the Jews. Secondly, it is commanded. This is from the NIV
Esther 9:28

28 These days should be remembered and observed in every generation by every family, and in every province and in every city. And these days of Purim should never cease to be celebrated by the Jews, nor should the memory of them die out among their descendants.

This year I informed the NerdBug that Haman didn’t merely want to send the Jews to this Island of Perpetually Tickling like on the VeggieTales – Esther, The Girl Who Became Queen. In the future we will brooch why the previous Queen was kicked out(and no, it isn’t because she wouldn’t make the King a sandwich;).

The second holiday was Saint Patrick’s Day. One reason to celebrate is our Irish heritage (this is obviously not the Cromwell side;). That is the fun reason but not the real reason. The real reason is that in spite of being kidnapped by them, Saint Patrick returned to Ireland(after escaping Ireland) to spread Christ to the “savage Irish”. This is a lesson we all should carry in our hearts. The love of Christ that we extend to others is not dependent on their treatment of us. I did read an article by Bridget Johnson about how this holiday has moved out of the church and into the bar. I urge us all to keep this holiday in our churches and our homes. Things like the shamrock are not really about being Irish but a representation of the Trinity.

All said, between Hamentashen(a cookie) and the corned beef that is waiting to be cooked, this is been week about celebration, remembrance and yummy food in the NerdFamily house!

So this post has been a long time coming. First, Two Blonde Boys did a post based on an article by Dvorak on if Apple is going to adopt Windows. This seemed to stir some impassioned discussion. NerdDad says that if Apple uses Windows it means we won! But seriously, there has been discussion that the Mac OS is best for some development, like Ruby on Rails. Well, today I am putting around and reading Yonah’s tech site and see his post about someone actually putting Windows XP on a Mac. So I went over to Infinite Loop to see if this is legit. This is apparently a contest that has been going on since the announcement of the Intel Mac. The thought on this is that it is probably a fraud. I don’t know if it is real but this seems to have caused even harsher feelings. Personally, I would love to see this marriage of technology. Then you can use the power of one to complement the other. While I will remain in the Windows camp and love the idea of making things stronger. Just my 2 cents but what are yours?

So I got another hoax email today. This one is about a virus going around:

>PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS:
>
>You should be alert during the next days: Do not open any message
>with an attached filed called “Invitation” regardless of who sent it
>.
>
>It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which “burns” the
>whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from
>someone
>who has your e-mail address in his/her contact list, that is why you
>should
>send this e-mail to all your contacts. It is better to receive this
>message
>25 times than to receive the virus and open it.
>
>If you receive a mail called “invitation”, though sent by a
>friend,do not open it and shut down your computer immediately.
>
>This is the worst virus announced by CNN, it has been
>classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever.
>This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no
>repair yet for this k ind of virus.
>
>This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard
>Disc,where the vital information is kept.
>SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, COPY THIS E-MAIL AND
>SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS AND REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM, YOU
>WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US.

Now I am going to reiterate a little of what I said yesterday. Anything that you are “supposed” to forward to everyone is another red flag. I ran it through Snopes and this hoax has been around since 2000. I really haven’t found an email that has had instructions to forward to really be valid. This time there is even a link to a McAfee Card on the subject. This email has been sent(on just this one mailing) to about 41 people. Snopes is a must have tool for anyone who emails. There are wonderful news bits, warnings and blessings to email out. Don’t dilute it with junk.

A note to my friend who sent this. Once again, this is not the first time I have gotten this particular email. My goal is to educate not to criticize. I am putting tools in your hands, please go and spread the truth;).