Freaky Frugalite

My Computer Has a Bug!!!

Can you see it?

HEE HEE! Lame, I know. But cut me some slack– it’s Friday!!
Do you know where the term “computer bug” came from? This is from WikiAnswers:
The term ‘bug’ was first used by Grace Hopper on September 9th, 1945 when a real bug, a moth, short-circuited an early computer on relay number 70 [...]

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Search the e-Book Library

Homeschoolers and Lovers of Educations and Books everywhere, hear ye, hear ye! This is one of the greatets educational resources you will have. If you are anything like me and my kids, we do a LOT of research online, we read a LOT of online books. My daughter, a budding historian, is an expert at [...]

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Dis is Bumpin’

My husband works at a grocery store, in the bakery. (He makes donuts and all sorts of yummy baked goods and is still as skinny as a bean pole. Life is SO unfair).
Anyway, tonight he told me of a funny note he saw in the bakery. Taped to the refrigerator door was a note [...]

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Irena Sendlerowa, German Heroine

I got this in my email this morning. It’s a true story. And I cannot BELIEVE this woman lost the Nobel Peace Prize to stupid Al Gore and his loony movie!!!!
May 12, 2008, marked the death of a 98-year-old lady named Irena Sendlerowa. She was born in Germany Poland in 1910. During WWII, Irena, a [...]

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Foot Binding and Other Stupid Customs

There is a stunning post at EastCoast Life about the abhorrent practice of foot-binding in the Orient. The photos are both sickeningly fascinating, and inexplicably horrendous.
The kids and I have studied the missionary work of Gladys Aylward, a hero of ours. She was an Englishwoman in the early 1900s who desperately desired to evangelize China, [...]

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Chernobyl Chills

If you grew up in the 80s or have had a good history teacher, you have heard about the terrible tragedy that happened on April 26, 1986– the nuclear disaster at the power plant in Chernobyl, in Russia. I remember that news reports were very slow to leak out. At first, the Soviets downplayed the [...]

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