Interesting webpages for kids

Post by **stilltrucking** » December 29th, 2009, 11:26 am

http://mathssquad.questacon.edu.au/mobius_strip.html

Post by **SadLuckDame** » December 29th, 2009, 6:34 pm

Really found this interesting and touching.
I'd not known you'd had such a soft spot for the kiddos. I'm happily impressed. You can reach in a zillion places at once, any direction.
I like spontaneity. Life is too dull to keep a woman like I entertained without a valuable tool, it's such a necessity. I think it's a creative and vivid mind that gets spot on instantly.

Often impressed, again I am with this. I walk a very fine line on the not praising, but just noticing and relaying...if you will take it as such.

Post by **SadLuckDame** » December 29th, 2009, 7:07 pm

Autism

A topic of interest to me recently, due to many children I love with it.
My niece has asperger pretty heavily. We've attempted to pin-point when she'd started showing signs. At the age of two she was attacked severely by the family golden retriever. He was in his old age and maybe he reacted when he was in a seizure or something, we really don't know what had set off the gentle giant, for he was fairly roughed housed on by children for most of his life and calm to it prior.

He bit her face and neck, she needed emergency care, and they did a spinal tap as well as surgery. All signs seem to lead to that moment, that we started noticing her autism.

I know of 10 other children with it, mostly severe autism, without communication or eye contact, or even acting as if not in 'our' world, but a world of their own. I'm driven to be apart of working with them, and any children with such an unsure diagnosis for their future and daily life. Blah, blah, blah, ya know...

But, these children projects are a great interest to me because of it. Autistic children respond very well to solitary games, puzzles. Like etch a sketch, dry erase boards, slinkys, wind mills, bubbles, spinning objects such as tops, and many artistic creations that catch the eye with lines or colors.

Thanks Jack.

Post by **stilltrucking** » December 29th, 2009, 11:00 pm

Must be fifty years since I read that short story Silent Snow Secrete Snow.

I got bit in the eye by a dog when I was about four I think. Who knows. I have read that autism is increasing. We are pumping so many chemicals into our water and food supplies we are shoting craps with our genome. But maybe it will work out for the best. We might be have a whole new better genome in our future. Abstroint was interested in "Indigo Children"

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Thank you

Post by **SadLuckDame** » December 30th, 2009, 2:32 am

I'll google it and see what I can find out about it in the silent snow.

I think what is in our food is an issue, based on the fact that my skin isn't nearly as sensitive as it was last year before the allergy diet. Results are in and it seems likely it's a culprit towards some sensitivities. Eat well if you can. Today I had a soup that was dairy free, gluten free, allergy free and had chicken in it that escaped antibiotics. It tasted fine and I guess I felt better eating it than chicken and stars. Had no reactions except a warm tummy.

I've read a slight bit into Indigo children, and crystal children. I'm not at all against the idea, but I don't know one way or the other. My children were just raised differently than children like I and most of my generation or previous. It could be a result of different parenting or hippy parenting. I am interested but not exactly on the boat. Too many possibilities with me.

I found this... thank you trucker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fq3Y_Tco3k

Post by **stilltrucking** » December 30th, 2009, 2:54 am

I don't know about it either. I suppose it could be. Some people put it down to new age pseudo science or something like it.
I been in a hell of rut with food. I eat the same things over and over. They say Wittgenstein was autistic. Not that I am comparing myself to him. But he said he never cared what he ate as long as it was the same thing. Not many girls get autism as boys I have read. I don't know why.
They say autistic kids don't like any variation in their routines.

I tried Bocca Burgers but did not like them. Maybe I did not cook them right. I been thinking about squash. Acorn squash baked with some filling. I got more cook books than I do books about Sylvia Plath and I got a lot of books about her. I just don't read my cookbooks I just collect them with good intentions.

I tried reading Wittgenstein's Blue Book but it made so much sense I stopped reading it. Not really a book just a collection of lecture notes.

In a cat stevens mood tonight or this morning. hearing peace train and where do the children play.

I wish I was a teacher. I hardly am around kids anymore. They give me such hope. In the store the other night a little boy with a bag of chips whinning this is mine this is mine this is mine. I can hear all humanity in his voice. a beatles song isn't it I me me mmine.

I cant remember the song just that bit.

deleted this from the on going jam this morning.

I don't know why.

start of a new decade
ten years after
Y2K come and gone
My nephew a Zen-Judist
Me I want to be a Viking Beserker
I want to be more mellow in my golden years.

Yes it is a brave new world
The year two thousand and ten A.F.
Only the children know for sure
where do the children play
out on the edge of night
I hear a train coming

Post by **SadLuckDame** » December 30th, 2009, 3:14 am

True, more boys with autism than girls. Plus if one child gets it then the siblings risk is higher, so many with one autistic child will have another follow suit. Two boys, brothers and both with autism. It is very interesting though how individual autistic children are, none with the same abilities or disabilities as the other.

Yes, schedules are extremely important to them and they only eat exactly what they eat, nothing else. m&m's seem to be an all over like. I didn't know until recently how different autism and aspergers are. Autism is usually a most non responsive communication or interaction, and aspergers is communicative, but maybe more like Alice?

Yes, I'd like to go to their worlds momentarily, I bet they've created fantastic ones without all of the crude mugging down our world. I try to escape ours or used to as often as possible. It doesn't offer much hope or good will. Sadly, it could be a decision one makes just to avoid this place and create a better one by sacrificing relationships, ideals, communication and society. If they're quite a creative genius, then they could be making amazing places with just their minds dabbling away, painting or what-not something better.

Post by **SadLuckDame** » December 30th, 2009, 5:02 am

I just totally freaked myself out over this thread. It's hard to sleep on it. Was thinking if he hadn't left, how far into the void would I have allowed myself to go? How much further would it take to the great escape of the mind? And now I can't sleep well. I'm creeped at the thought of if I'd be if he hadn't left.

Post by **stilltrucking** » December 30th, 2009, 5:18 am

Still here
still eating
bagel and cream cheese and cinnamon
cup of coffee

I like those books on tape
for restless nights
Reminds me of being a kid laying on the floor in front of the big floor model radio listening to the shows.

I hardly stay awake long enough to listen to the whole 45 minute tape.
Pretty good sleep aide for me when my mind is racing. They are a nice distraction.
My local library is selling their collection for a buck a piece they are going to audio CD's.

But sometimes I can fall asleep without them if I have had a good physical kind of day. But that happens too rarely. I am far too sedentary I got to stop this late night snacking. I am telling you but I am really telling myself. Some primitive people believe writing is magic. I think I am pretty primitive myself.

I was just going to post this to a new thread but I may as well put it here because I got it on my clipboard because I was going to post it as a GO but deleted it from there because I feel like keeping a low profile. Trucks are high profile vehicles anyway

It is dedicated to my little silicon pal, my computer

In all this world of things you are my dearest friend
I created you
I built you from scrap parts
and baptized you in my blood
on the jagged edges of your metal case
and skinned my knuckles on your innards
You are my diary my memoir my dearest friend
I poor my heart out to you
and you poor it back unto my eyes to see what
I am truly feeling and thinking

You know me better than I know myself
you have prepared a monitor before my enemies
my hard drive runneth over in a billion bytes of rambling late night thoughts.

tonight
this morning I am obsessed with chromosomes
there is no mystery about my Y chromosome
I know where that is from
but what of this X I have
That wonderful X
that mysterious X

Post by **SadLuckDame** » December 30th, 2009, 1:48 pm

It is dedicated to my little silicon pal, my computer

In all this world of things you are my dearest friend
I created you
I built you from scrap parts
and baptized you in my blood
on the jagged edges of your metal case
and skinned my knuckles on your innards
You are my diary my memoir my dearest friend
I poor my heart out to you
and you poor it back unto my eyes to see what
I am truly feeling and thinking

You know me better than I know myself
you have prepared a monitor before my enemies
my hard drive runneth over in a billion bytes of rambling late night thoughts.

tonight
this morning I am obsessed with chromosomes
there is no mystery about my Y chromosome
I know where that is from
but what of this X I have
That wonderful X
that mysterious X

Everything about this is to my liking. That doesn't say much, but I still wanted to say it. It's very reminiscent. It is exactly what.
Do we send out signals and they cross the intersection, one to pick up, one to drop up, and all receive? Or so I'm believing.

Post by **SadLuckDame** » December 31st, 2009, 12:18 am

I need to find a good movie on the puter to watch tonite. I've a free night. No sense in getting cable with the internet so handy. I can watch Survivor or Amazing Race without paying an extra bill. Cable has become an extra bill or at least in my opinion. I'm no fan of commercials.

Any suggestions...

My computer, my pal
it's my free college education
until I've a real one
it's my diary, too
and scribble bud.

It lets me touch
when I'm full of fear to otherwise.
It allows my introspection to make tap tap taps
faster than when I lie awake in bed writing it out.

Then when 4 a.m. blinks
a teacher friend is at the other end.
My computer, my friend.

Post by **stilltrucking** » December 31st, 2009, 6:56 am

projectfree.tv

How about Moby Dick?

Post by **still.trucking** » December 31st, 2009, 11:35 am

Call Me Ishmael

And as i picture you on the television,
talking all the seller hook past all the people walking,
its about then that I realise that your the same as me,
So call me Ishmael, we are all striving for,
the thing that makes this grind worth surviving baby,
I won't wait long for one little moment,
where our dream's to feel alive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pWfU-5wtsE

Post by **stilltrucking** » January 1st, 2010, 6:12 am

I loved that movie. I guess I am a sucker for any movie about sailing and the ocean. But I was aware of the double entendre. I don't guess it is a chick film. I can't remember any women in the whole movie. Except for the church scene, the widows.

I used to lie awake on foggy nights listening to the fog horns of the ships coming into the harbor in Baltimore. Freud said happiness is the fulfillment of a childhood wish. I am glad I finally got to go to sea even if it was for only a few months working on a trawler fishing off the west coast.

We are still sea creatures, even the amniotic fluid in a mother's womb is sea water.

A Pirate Looks At Seventy

Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
Youve seen it all, youve seen it all—Jimmy Buffett

Post by **SadLuckDame** » January 1st, 2010, 10:33 pm

Well, I can't say I'd really much interest in the movie, I believe I saw at as a young girl. My Dad, he watched men shows, westerns mostly, and 1000 leagues under the sea, and he especially loved discovery channel and even discovery of people from small countries. I do believe I'd seen it, but don't think there was an impression.

I watched The Grand Hotel that night though. I got a kick out of it, thought it fantastic on a lone eve. Tonight, another night for flicks, I hit the video store--Vanity Fair (chick flick), "O" cause I really like Julia Stiles + Shakespeare and The Onion Movie...five nights.

I'd sailed on the sea one time, was amazing and I'd like to do it again. I'm not one to be sea sick, I just like being out on the water. Some times it's hard being out on the water with men fishing, though, because they don't care if you've gotta pee. It's hard to hold it for four more hours while they're in a good fish spot.

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