{"id":30,"date":"2006-10-09T19:25:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T23:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alison.com\/wordpress\/?p=30"},"modified":"2006-10-13T11:11:03","modified_gmt":"2006-10-13T15:11:03","slug":"surfing-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2006\/10\/09\/surfing-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Around. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found two videos by a well-fed and poorly dressed fundie explaining 1. that the word dinosaur comes from &#8220;dyna&#8221;, like dynamite, &#8220;to explode&#8221; and &#8220;saur&#8221;, meaning &#8220;lizard&#8221;.  This explains that the dinosaurs disappeared because they exploded.  2.  that the continents did not drift, and that plate tectonics is a lie &#8211; the earth was actually like a big balloon, and when it got filled up and expanded, the continents came apart and the rest of the earth got covered with water.  He stuck paper continents on a big balloon and blew it up and deflated it several times to demonstrate.  I&#8217;m convinced. . .<\/p>\n<p>I also discovered that there are about 10 junior sized sewing patterns out there that aren&#8217;t vintage on ebay.  I was really hoping to find a couple so I could avoid the major alterations on children&#8217;s patterns or drafting patterns from scratch, but it&#8217;s just not going to happen.  Apparently, girls and boys between the ages of 12 and 20 just don&#8217;t wear clothes.  OK, they don&#8217;t wear home sewn clothes.  *sigh*  There&#8217;s very little on the racks, though, that&#8217;s the right size that doesn&#8217;t look either way too juvenile or way too adult for the girls.  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