I just came across this today and had to share it – a super-fast, no frills online dictionary called Ninjawords. Lately I’d been using The Free Dictionary, which loads pretty slowly but gives a ginormous plethora of info like a long list of synonyms with definitions. Ninjawords is WAY different – the page loads in a split second, and the definition appears a split second after you start looking for it (either by hitting Enter after typing the word or by clicking ‘Look Up’). Most of the …

I’ve been pondering the old saying You learn something new every day, thanks to M and his seemingly insatiable curiosity. A routine tire change turned into a basic discussion of how a car works after he saw what was behind a tire and a computer cleaning turned into a (very, very) basic discussion of how a computer works.
M: Computers have brains?
Me: Yes. Well, they do things that we tell them to do. Or something.
While we have education constantly on our minds, we don’t try to find the …