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Sep
15
2012

!schooling -0001 Jung 10-14 | 10-14 Sept 2012

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Maths

Forgot Tao already had a maths book so he's continuing on with his old one.  He got away with doing only one page instead of two as I also made him read the thing by himself which taxed him quite a lot as he was already a bit tired and we started later than we should have.  Kumon book is much too easy for Ru so will have to get another one that's slightly more challenging.  Seems like it would be a good thing for Cub so either he will get Ru's book or I'll get him another one like it.

English

Sep
07
2012

Socially acceptable !schooling: 3-7 Sept 2012

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In which I once more attempt weekly updates on the homeschooling side of things.  Going to see how I go just writing about the bookwork and if I remember to add the Other Stuff we do as I go (and I found out after reading the curriculum outlines that we actually do most of the stuff in the curriculum without making much effort to do it, wonder how long I can get away with that... :).

Also I changed the generated url as punctuation gets dropped.

Maths

Sep
04
2012

AR notes: physical bitboins

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Some people have made them.  As far as I can tell from an extremely quick skim, they're all round coins and bills, familiar looking money.

The current block I'm working in uses local currency and bitcoin for a global currency.  While contemplating bitcoin and how it gets accepted/exchanged as readily as the local currency of any given area, I wondered if they had a physical version of it.  Which then of course had me wondering how cool it would be if they were dice.

Sep
03
2012

Blog updates, or mile long sidebars

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I can't even count in miles.

I was a touch concerned about adding anything else to the sidebar as it's already quite long.  Then I had a look at the sidebars some of my friends and other miscellaneous people have on their blogs and I don't feel too bad adding a couple of blocks.  Then of course there was a mental kerfuffle about folds and whether blocks should be above or below them.  I eventually decided to keep "About" up the top as it summarises the silly blog, and drop everything else in under it.

So the new blocks:

Sep
02
2012

Aquaponics Father's Day Fish Feast

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Happy Father's Day to all the people that do Father's Day!

We had Josh's dad, my uncle and one of my cousins over for lunch.  My uncle offered to cook the fish so we pulled 6 trout out of the tanks.  I've been observing that some of them were pretty big when feeding them, and one of the ones that Tao pulled up was quite large.

Big rainbow trout from the aquaponics tank

Sep
01
2012

Sharing is...

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...privacy concerning if you're one of those people that object to things like tracking you around the internet, and not a big deal if you're not.

Aug
27
2012

re: patent trolling

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Dearest Apple

I hear you've won your most recent case against Samsung regarding rounded corners on rectangles.  Please forgive me for not jumping up and down in excitement over this little victory, as I happen to think the whole thing was pretty fucking stupid (pardonnez mon français) and a massive waste of time, effort and resources that you could have spent doing stuff like making your existing products better and maybe even inventing something new (or at least a new take on something old).

Throughout the years I've used:

Aug
21
2012

Homeschooling thought+photo dump

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Because I don't blog it nearly as often as I should.

Aug
12
2012

Hunting

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My OT character Lyric hunting with her two eevees, Amber (big shiny mutant thing) and Lightfoot (normal one).

If the Kanto/Johto regions weren't supposed to be tropical I would have left the sky clear, kind of rushed the clouds a little.  And my lighting went to hell when I exported as a jpg so my dodgy quickfix was to turn it into a png.  It only helped a little.  My painting is slightly dodgier than usual as I used a hard edged brush all the way through for some reason instead of a soft edged one like I usually do.

Aug
05
2012

Pokemon themed sketchdump

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The kids watched many Pokemon dvds while we were on Christmas Island.  I have a Pokemon fanfic sketched out in my head which I don't give a lot of time to as it's a very occasional diversion from working on AR.  This is sketch of my OT (that's "Original Trainer" for those that aren't versed in Pokemon fanfics) and two of her Eevees; Amber (combining cliches, she is an abnormally large shiny mutant, and female!), and Lightfoot (perfectly normal male).  They're hunting whatever might be good eating probably somewhere in the Ka

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