Wow, where has this month gone already? Here it is the 21st of April already. I swear it just started and now it's almost over. As you get older it seems that time speeds up and passes you by before you even realize it's happening. How do you slow it down? They say that you should take time and enjoy every moment of life, but it seems to be one of those sayings that people just say, but don't really know how to do. We are so busy during the day, you know, you go to work, you're busy, trying to get everything done and you sit there wishing it was Friday even though it's only Monday. It's like you wish your life away, because before you know it, it will be Friday and then Monday again and another week, month, year has gone by and you look back and ask,
"Where has the time gone?"
How do you slow it down? That's my question.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Another Great News Story
5th-Grader Finds Mistake at Smithsonian
April 2nd, 2008 @ 3:54pm
ALLEGAN, Mich. (AP) - Is fifth-grader Kenton Stufflebeam smarter than the Smithsonian? The 11-year-old boy, who lives in Allegan but attends Alamo Elementary School near Kalamazoo, went with his family during winter break to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington.
Since it opened in 1981, millions of people have paraded past the museum's Tower of Time, a display involving prehistoric time. Not one visitor had reported anything amiss with the exhibit until Kenton noticed that a notation, in bold lettering, identified the Precambrian as an era.
Kenton knew that was wrong. His fifth-grade teacher, John Chapman, had nearly made the same mistake in a classroom earth-science lesson before catching himself.
"I knew Mr. Chapman wouldn't tell all these students" bad information, the boy told the Kalamazoo Gazette for a story published Wednesday.
So Kevin Stufflebeam took his son to the museum's information desk to report Kenton's concern on a comment form. Last week, the boy received a letter from the museum acknowledging that his observation was "spot on."
"The Precambrian is a dimensionless unit of time, which embraces all the time between the origin of Earth and the beginning of the Cambrian Period of geologic time," the letter says.
The solution to the problem would not involve advanced science but rather simply painting over the word "era," the note says.
"We did forward a copy of the comment and our paleobiology department's response to the head of the exhibits department," said Lorraine Ramsdell, educational technician for the museum.
While no previous visitors to the museum had brought up the error, it has long rankled the paleobiology department's staff, who noticed it even before the Tower of Time was erected 27 years ago, she said.
"The question is, why was it put up with that on it in the first place?" Ramsdell said.
Excited as he was to receive the correspondence from museum officials, he couldn't help but point out that it was addressed to Kenton Slufflebeam. In Allegany.
April 2nd, 2008 @ 3:54pm
ALLEGAN, Mich. (AP) - Is fifth-grader Kenton Stufflebeam smarter than the Smithsonian? The 11-year-old boy, who lives in Allegan but attends Alamo Elementary School near Kalamazoo, went with his family during winter break to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington.
Since it opened in 1981, millions of people have paraded past the museum's Tower of Time, a display involving prehistoric time. Not one visitor had reported anything amiss with the exhibit until Kenton noticed that a notation, in bold lettering, identified the Precambrian as an era.
Kenton knew that was wrong. His fifth-grade teacher, John Chapman, had nearly made the same mistake in a classroom earth-science lesson before catching himself.
"I knew Mr. Chapman wouldn't tell all these students" bad information, the boy told the Kalamazoo Gazette for a story published Wednesday.
So Kevin Stufflebeam took his son to the museum's information desk to report Kenton's concern on a comment form. Last week, the boy received a letter from the museum acknowledging that his observation was "spot on."
"The Precambrian is a dimensionless unit of time, which embraces all the time between the origin of Earth and the beginning of the Cambrian Period of geologic time," the letter says.
The solution to the problem would not involve advanced science but rather simply painting over the word "era," the note says.
"We did forward a copy of the comment and our paleobiology department's response to the head of the exhibits department," said Lorraine Ramsdell, educational technician for the museum.
While no previous visitors to the museum had brought up the error, it has long rankled the paleobiology department's staff, who noticed it even before the Tower of Time was erected 27 years ago, she said.
"The question is, why was it put up with that on it in the first place?" Ramsdell said.
Excited as he was to receive the correspondence from museum officials, he couldn't help but point out that it was addressed to Kenton Slufflebeam. In Allegany.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
A Mind Cleansing Experience
So, I added some links to some of my favorite sites below. Check them out sometime.
A News story that I thought was interesting.
Scottish Schoolgirls Playing on Beach Find Woman’s Severed Head
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Associated Press
EDINBURGH, Scotland — Two schoolgirls playing on a Scottish beach found a woman's severed head, police said Tuesday.
The girls found the head wrapped in a plastic bag on a beach outside Arbroath, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) south of Aberdeen. A hand and other body parts were found later.
"They were upset by the discovery and their parents contacted the police," said Detective Chief Inspector Graham McMillan of Tayside Police. (seriously, they were upset? Gee, I can't imagine being upset if I found a SEVERED HEAD IN A PLASTIC BAG on the Beach.)
Part of the beach remains cordoned off, as 40 officers comb the area for evidence.
Police have not released details of the dead woman's race, identity or age but say the head does not appear to be linked to any pending murder or missing person investigation. (hmmm, guess it's just an extra head then, huh. Someone had it laying around and decided to put it in a plastic bag and chuck it in the ocean, where it washed ashore.)
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Associated Press
EDINBURGH, Scotland — Two schoolgirls playing on a Scottish beach found a woman's severed head, police said Tuesday.
The girls found the head wrapped in a plastic bag on a beach outside Arbroath, about 55 miles (90 kilometers) south of Aberdeen. A hand and other body parts were found later.
"They were upset by the discovery and their parents contacted the police," said Detective Chief Inspector Graham McMillan of Tayside Police. (seriously, they were upset? Gee, I can't imagine being upset if I found a SEVERED HEAD IN A PLASTIC BAG on the Beach.)
Part of the beach remains cordoned off, as 40 officers comb the area for evidence.
Police have not released details of the dead woman's race, identity or age but say the head does not appear to be linked to any pending murder or missing person investigation. (hmmm, guess it's just an extra head then, huh. Someone had it laying around and decided to put it in a plastic bag and chuck it in the ocean, where it washed ashore.)
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