Katy’s Weblog
Randy Pausch died yesterday.
In his famous last lecture, he said he had two childhood dreams.
I remarked to my son that I couldn’t think of what my childhood dreams were. Maybe I didn’t any dreams that I passionately pursued.
My son said, “Maybe that’s why you haven’t accomplished anything.”
My mother-in-law makes mochi – yummy!
You too, can make mochi – in 30 minutes or less. Try it.
(you can fast forward if it gets slow…)
A talking animal, a flying human, a house grows out of the ground – these I call miracles. Events that are impossible as defined by our experiences and by what we know of how the world works are definitely miracles.
Are there other types of miracles?
When the probability of something happening is so low that if it happens, wouldn’t they be miracles?
Can you believe I am reading Chaucer when I don’t have to?
My daughter and I were at the library looking at the classics section. She remarked, “I heard Chaucer is really good.”
I don’t remember reading The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. I didn’t even know he was a poet!
A commercial said:
Five years from now, anything can happen…you could learn French…
I don’t know what they were advertising, but it made me think…5 years from now…
Five years is not a lot of time, yet, it is enough time to make a difference.
I can learn to speak another language in 5 years..
Roald Dahl is best known for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach.
My daughter is a huge fan of Roald Dahl. She has several of his books, not the whole collection.
I actually think some of his themes, especially the short stories for adults, are a little twisted.
“…so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.” Romans 12:5
We were at church and I asked, “Can I borrow someone’s car to take my daughter home?”
Without hesitation, 2 people handed me their car keys.
Later, I asked, “Can someone give me a ride home?”
OMG, this will make you groan…
Make sure you get down to #9.
It is said that the ability to make and understand PUNS is the highest level of language development.
Here are the top 10 winners in the International Pun Contest:
1. A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The Stewardess looks at him and says, ‘I’m sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.
I am proud to be an American.
Watching a fantastic fireworks show in Cerritos on the 4th, I am proud to be Chinese too.
We invented the fireworks :)
I liked this Mary Russell book much more than the last one I read.
Warning: Spoiler ahead.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie King has some deep thoughts on believing in God. Mary is a scholar of theology but did not believe in a miracle even when she saw it with her own eyes. Margery is a mystic with no formal training in the Bible, yet she has a deep understanding of God.