Loving Google's homepage today.

How long are they going to be Sesame Street themed?

Yes Vortex it is. a key key component.

near to work bakery is still not making my favorite dessert that they used to carry. grump. I would have liked something to eat after my salad.

You speaking of a bakery reminds me of how awful the vending machine is here. I tried to get Raisinets, and they were mutant Raisinets with powdery chocolate falling all off them. Just the one box, so I didn't even get to see if they were all mutated. Then I tried Twix, and they were broken. And then they ran out of Twix, so I tried the one remaining chocolate bar I don't hate (bear in mind, I'm driven to desperation to eat any of the above) the Kit Kat, and it's the large version which is the anti-Kit Kat, as far as I'm concerned. Narrow wafers. It's why Twix and Kit Kat are all I'll eat.

Oh, great.

I just shredded my tights. What is with the underside of the desk?

I am having the silliest grump morning.

I also keep in mind with surveys of high school students, that it's the prime age for sarcasm to authority figures, and filling out bogus anonymous answers to boring surveys is kind of fun....

Amen. An imaginary person won the election for student body president at my high school. I was one of the people who voted for him, knowing he was imaginary.

Not just the reading but the visual medium will help develop his practical communication skills and awareness of non-verbal cues.

I recently researched this (well, comics + literacy) for a school paper/project. The processing of visual information is definitely a kind of literacy. Filling in the blanks between one panel and the next, knowing how to follow the sequence of panels on a page, these are important skills. (Skills which, despite years of reading comics, I'm still developing.) People act like it's news that comics are good for kids but educators have been looking into it for years.

Waiting for the plumber and I forgot some paperwork I wanted to bring home to work on. Feh.

Loving Google's homepage today.

Awww, Count von Count!

Time Cube guy has a Twitter account: [link]

The processing of visual information is definitely a kind of literacy. Filling in the blanks between one panel and the next, knowing how to follow the sequence of panels on a page, these are important skills.

Owen's lacking some important pragmatic language skills and the comics seem to really help that.

Oh, great.

Vending fail sucks.

The pumpkin cheesecake turned out well. I really do wish more buffistas were here to finish it off. DH doesn't really care for cheesecake. I had to practice with this one for a bakesale on Wednesday.

Owen's lacking some important pragmatic language skills and the comics seem to really help that.

I think they're especially good for reading facial expressions. You can really analyze the faces piece by piece - which is something you can't do with, say, movies or watching people live, since their faces move so quickly.