Random Announcements!

So on the radio this morning there was 3 minutes of 'dead air.'

The 2016 ESV Bible will be the final version; no more changes will be made. Good news for ESV Bible Bee-ers!

Another ESV? Oh dear. You know how long it took me to change from 2007 to 2011? Groans

Today, in 1608, John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown Colony Council in Virginia.

Yay (@Matthew!) cheers

I got my driver's license on Thursday! (I still can't believe that I passed, since I was freaking out when she asked where the defroster and emergency break were :P.)

@Matthew Minica: Our dad told us, and I was very happy! Hopefully, BB will change to that ESV next year, and we can stick with that for the rest of our BB days :).

Congratulations, Anna! xD

Congrats Anna!!!! :D Have you gotten to drive anywhere by yourself yet?

I don't think I need to announce what happened today, 15 years ago.

@Hannah* Not yet, but in a few days, I'm going to babysit five kids for two hours while their mom teaches piano, so I'll drive there :).

In 1609, English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into the river that now bears his name.

Hey, there's a link to the chat room in the main menu now! xP

Aw, Katrina, you beat me to it! xP lol xD

But oh, I just went in it, and now you can see who is on at the moment! :P xD

Yeah, and I keep clicking on the chat room link when I'm trying to get to the forums. facedesk xP

Isn't that the place with the emoticon of the computer hitting the face?

Isn't what the place?

posts this mostly for Rosie's benefit I heard "Trust in You" on the way and on the way back from work yesterday. In fact, it was the first song playing when I turned the radio on in the morning. Well, wasn't that a nice gesture on my first day, Lord! Thanks! xD

@Matthew- YES!!! My alarm clock turns on the radio when my alarm goes off and when it plays one of my favorite songs, of course I'm going to get up. Breathe; by Johnny Dias, is a great song to get up on.

@Joshua B. No, that emoticon is on the regular blog.

"No known species of reindeer can fly. But there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not completely rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen. There are 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. But since Santa doesn't (appear to) handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75-1/2 million miles, not counting resting, eating, feeding the reindeer, etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run, tops, 15 miles per hour. The load on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" could pull ten times the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,430 tons. Again, for comparison, this is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth. The air resistance will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as space crafts re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy. Per second, each. In short, they will burst into flame almost immediately, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force. In conclusion, Santa is simply a scientific impossibility." The scientific impossibility of Santa

WOW! LOL.

@lady Carliss: Do you by chance receive the M. girls' magazine? That's where I saw that thing about Santa. xD I love it.

Yay! I'm a tropical storm! :P

http://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/atlantic

And I'm not. -_-

I'm actually going to a HOMECOMING PARADE! What on earth am I doing????

@Eirene No, I don't. I heard it from my sister.

Ah. I see. x)

Today is my llamas birthday.

You have a llama?! :P

Happy birthday to Rosie's llama! lol

Yep, I have a llama.

A eagle just got our pretty rooster. =(

Aww, that's too bad. :(

It was actually a little funny, Stephen (11) comes in hollering: "Mom, mom, something huge just got a chicken!" Me: "Which one?" Stephen: "The white one." Me: "Oh, well, you should of ran after it screaming and maybe it would of dropped it." (We had a dog that made a hawk drop a chicken by barking at it. It survived and we called it Hawk.) Stephen: "He didn't carry it off, it's still sitting there." Me: "Yuck, go deal with it then." Stephen: "Ok…."

That is kind of funny…xP

Caesar Augustus was born today in the year 63 B.C.

I can do a back walkover!!!!!!!!!!!!
^{At least, I did it once. The other times I failed. xP}

Uh, what's a back walkover? :P

I watched Frozen for the first time.

I've only seen bits and pieces of it…:P Is it actually good, Rachel?

I was pleasantly surprised with it! Of course it has Let it Go, which is portrayed in a bad light if you're looking for it, but I thought it would most likely not be seen that way by little kids. :-/ But I really like the sister relationship and how pretty much all the conflicts were resolved at the end. Overall I liked it, though.

That's good.

Is that really you, Matthew, on a different account? xP

Rachel, how are you feeling now? Getting any better? =)

No, it's naughty Brianna! ;P

Oh. Now I see so! xP

Katrina: A back walkover is where you stand somewhere, fling your arms behind you and flip backwards into a bridge. And then you flip your legs up into a handstand, then you flip back and are standing again.

Oh, wow, okay Hannah. xP That sounds impressive. I'm not even going to try. :P

Did anyone else know that Luke wrote more verses than Paul did? I found that surprising. :P