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Pi Day

Today as the miracle of PI is known, I take the opportunity to reflect on the wonders of Autism. I read a book – Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet – when it was first published.  This a truly remarkable autobiographical account of one man’s journey in the world of an Autistic Savant.  He does everything by the numbers. For example, he counts the number of items of clothing that he is wearing before he leaves his house.  He eats a specific weight of cereal everyday.  Never more, and never less. What is most remarkable is that he worked to memorise PI to 22,514 places.  Unfortunately, he made a mistake in position 2965, and did not retain the world record. But still… Can you imagine remembering PI beyond 3.14 for any reason, other than because you could? In his book, Mr. Tammet describes how he sees numbers as

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Tags: 3.14, 3/14, autism, book review, born on a blue day, Daniel Tammet, pi day ·

Spin the education wheel again for luck

Image via Wikipedia Well, as many of my faithful readers will remember, we are going through a facilitated IEP for our son, David. After a few attempts at scheduling the actual meeting, we finally appear to have a date and time that we can all agree on. I plan to ask for half days of school.  Music, PE, Science or Math and lunch. David is 10 years old and in the fourth grade.  Hopefully we can get him back into public school.   Tweet #fighting4answrs

hacking facebook again

Mr David keeps trying to hack into facebook accounts.  He does it by attempting to reset the password.  Every facebook account in our house sends me an email any time someone attempts to reset the password.  I then ask the account holder if they forgot the password.  Most of the time, it is being requested at a time when David is the only one who could possible be attempting to get on the account. So. Even those times when we watch everything he does on the machine, he can still find a way to hide his activity enough to attempt to hack into someone else’s account.  Very frustrating.  I can’t run my house like a prison and take away computer access for all of the kids in the house.  The alternative to this would be to block facebook access.  I use facebook for my business.  The kids use it to

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