UPI reports that Noggin, currently showing 12 hours a day of kids’ shows and 12 hours of older stuff as “The N” later on at night, will run Noggin shows 24 hours a day after the New Year.
This is a little bit uncool. The six o’clock “We’re going to say goodbye…” song was a convenient [...]
The United States voted against a Defamation of Religion resolution at a committee meeting of the United Nations. The resolution passed 88-52 with 23 abstentions. Results are on the press release; scroll down to ANNEX I.
The text of the resolution (English, PDF) claims to support diversity but singles out Islam as a persecuted religion seven [...]
It had been awhile since I used my Sony HandyCam to capture much of anything, but I made use of it Wednesday night at the kids’ first Christmas program.
The HandyCam records first to MiniDV videotape, then later I usually use the camera’s recording feature to save video files to a MemoryStick. Problem was, neither MemoryStick [...]
Pastor Paul Siems hosts the sixty-fifth Lutheran Carnival at his blog, Not Alone. Siems brings us his grandfather, a pastor who preached in both German and English. He also does a proper job of providing his own commentary for the submitted posts.
Thanks, Pastor, for your time and effort!
A little over two weeks ago another Lutheran blogger had a scare with a carbon monoxide detector but turned out OK.
Today we had a little scare of our own. We had not recognized the amount of grease that had collected at the bottom of our oven. I did not see the source of ignition, but [...]
I’d seen Paula Deen a couple of times on the Food Network, most notably her appearance on Iron Chef America. She has lent her name to Smithfield, which produces the Paula Deen Crunchy Honey Glaze Spiral Ham. For my parents visit this weekend, we tried one of the hams.
We purchased one at Giant Eagle for [...]
Applied Behavior Analysis therapy, by its very nature, is likely the therapy that has the highest documentation of success for children with pervasive development disorders. There is no question that it has helped our daughter learn useful skills, such as getting dressed, feeding herself, identifying objects in everyday life, learning the calender and written [...]
The girls and I have been bringing up Christmas decorations from the dungeon. Today we brought up one of our crèches.
I mischievously and briefly pondered leaving the baby Jesus out of the manger.
Of course, those would be fightin’ words. Stealing baby Jesus out of Christmas displays is, ironic in itself, “unforgivable” in Elyria, Ohio. [...]
