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August Challenge - All in the numbers August 7, 2006 5:22 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Amy, August Challenge, Daily Life, Evan, Family, Sarah , add a comment

I am happy today is 8/7/6. I just find that amusing.

I am happy my children are caught up on their shots. Evan 6 shots. Amy 4 shots. Sarah 1 shot. They aren’t so happy about that. Sarah took it worst; her pain was all in the anticipation.

Can you meet The August Challenge?

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Age of Innocence August 7, 2006 2:34 pm

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Cool Sites, Of Interest , 5comments

They say children see 9 dolphins in this picture. What do you see?

Incase anyone missed the reference, I’ll post it below. Click more to see the details.

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Silent Bob Blogs August 7, 2006 1:50 pm

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SilenteBobSpeaks.com

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Parents reviewing video games August 7, 2006 1:07 pm

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KidGamers is fresh on the scene to give parents an opportunity to understand the video games their children want to play.

KidGamers.org is a video game review site for parents and by parents. While there are plenty of video game sites out there, few of them cater to parents who wish to help their kids find fun and challenging video games.

As we all know, the ESRB’s rating system is a blunt instrument. It tells you the basics of what is “bad” about a game, but nothing about what is good for a game from a child’s perspective.

Their reviews, with attention on pre-teen and younger, will focus on skills needed to play the game, accuracy of the ESRB rating, what did the children think, and did the parents enjoy the game.

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Big holes! August 7, 2006 11:36 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Environment, Politics, Regional Politics (SE), Touchy Subjects , 1 comment so far

So I was reading about the biggest hole in Russia

The gaint hole is actually a diamond mine in Eastern Siberia near the town Mirna. It is 525 meters deep and 1.25 km in the diameter.
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The suction above the hole resulted in several helicopter crashes, so all flight above the hole is prohibited now.

and learned about Bingham Canyon Copper mine via the post comments. The facts about the mine are fascinating. And the pictures are impressive. I wonder if this is what the West Virginia mountains will look like in 100 years. (see also)

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Good time to be alive for numbers junkies August 7, 2006 9:00 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life , 2comments

Woohoo! If you use date formatting of MM/DD/YY today is 8 7 6! Ugh! I should have posted this at 5:43.21 a.m.

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Google Map Flight Simulator August 7, 2006 6:41 am

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Use your arrow keys to control the plane on this fun flight simulator based on Google Maps.

Thanks to Single-Dads for the link!

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Oh the dreams we dream August 7, 2006 6:19 am

Posted by Doug McCaughan in : Daily Life, Mental , 1 comment so far

Last night I dreamed that Doug Heffernan and I were trying to break an old style iMac by throwing it up in the air and letting it land on the floor. Carrie gave us the whole smug "you’re going to regret this" attitude and toward the end Doug and I look at the concrete porch then at each other and rush off to actually break the screen. The location was an altered version of the show’s house set and the style of the dream including the lighting was just like the show.

In other dreams, I was helping Miss Julie Patchoulie out around her house and we were talking about the branches I had cleared in a previous dream and how they were still around because I had put them down across the property line and despire the large spanse of grass the oriental neighbor was now irrated with Julie. We skipped the sticks and went to an old shed to tear out a wall. Upon beginning to pull off the duct tape that held the concrete block up, numerous spiders with bizarre markings rushed out.

The fun beginning dream of the evening involved a guy who had built a long wooden pier into the side of a cliff high above the ocean. At the end of the several miles of pier was a bar. He began his day by standing on the egde of the pier and jumping high in the air doing a forward flip and landing back on the very edge of the pier. Then he would repeat with a backflip. A reporter was interviewing him as he did his morning flips. At the top of the cliff was a house. From the house, you could go through some woods to the street but once in the street it was evident that the woods was really a small grove of trees and a path led around the outside of the trees from the street to the house. The house was Julie’s and we started her dream.

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