I hope his family is a good One

Tid bit

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development forecast yesterday that the global economy will expand 4.6 percent this year and 4.5 percent in 2011, compared with an average of 3.7 percent during the decade through 2006 as growth in emerging economies outpaces debt- burdened developed countries.

Alice grown up

She was scamming a 20 today I assume to put into that purse.

ouch sticker shock - Did you see the markets down 3% today

Lucky it came back. I wanted to find out how much a 3% drop was worth, and then got some sticker shock. If I understand this correctly, from here  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_capitalization the total world market capitlization is about 50Trillion. This means the wealth of all

Science project for the week

We setup a habitat for a brown anole and the crickets he will eat. The kids love it. We get 10 second updates on what's going on. There was a lot of learning going on with this project. Cheers

FUNNNN EEEEEE

http://xkcd.com/162/ oh to be young and smart again :)

Alice graduates

Video of Alice at graduation

Liquid Nitrogen Cooled Ice Cream

so cool, our local shop takes ice cream mix, adds flavors and toppings to taste, then instant freezes it using liquid nitrogen.  It mixes the two things I like best, technology and ice cream. What fun. From 2010-05-17 From 2010-05-17 short video, Long video,

Updates from the harrimans

We have been trying our hand at growing our own food. We are just getting started. We have tomatos and peppers and peas. The kids love havesting. This drove us to make a raised garden. We have here a 12x4 raised bed. Now we need soil. Its been fun.

Anna

Anna just scored her first goal.

new photos

there lots of new photos on our picasa site. http://picasaweb.google.com/road33/MobilePhotos# near the bottom of the list.

Alice's Project

Alice has a school project, so she picked this knarly but very interesting fish, we do research, as its fun.  We find a lot of very weird details. This fish eats the entire prey because food is so hard to find they don't waste any of it. The