EYE CANDY FOR GEEKS:
WATCH THE GROWTH OF WALMART

Here's my new favorite website, and one of its most popular infographics:

http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/

BUT YOU CAN'T SHOUT 'HALLELUJAH!'
IN PUBLIC SCHOOL!

Yesterday, they handed out mid-quarter grades. Maddy saw some fat numbers on hers. When you are trying to be a top student, fat numbers are bad numbers. AAAIIIEEE!!!!

Then the teacher realized that she had switched two envelopes and given two students the wrong reports. Maddy and the kid next to her switched reports to the correct ones. Now Maddy was seeing THIN numbers -- meaning, all 1's and 1+'s.

Out of concern for her neighboring classmate's feelings, she did not leap on her desk, shoot her arms skyward, and shout, "Hallelujah!"

But she felt like it. :>)

ALL THESE YEARS, I'VE CALLED IT
A PLAIN OLD 'FLY SWATTER'

A mini Munchkin on our family tree, age 4, recently lisped that his "gwamma" is really good with the BUG SLAPPER.

Come to think of it, that's a much more descriptive name for it. I have now adopted it as my own.

Thanks, "Bwi-an."