Report from Planet Stas is the blog of a 7-year old.  Here is his prize-winning poem.  I applaud the use of the word “orb”.

Our Earth’s Future

Garbagey globe.
Stinky skies.
No place to live,
The earth in disguise.

Polluted planet.
Odorous orb.
No world for us anywhere,
No light to absorb.

Get rid of this scene!
Should Wall-E clean up our earth?
No Way!
I say …Go Green!

Ode to Firefox

By SaraToday

O Jessie

A year has come and gone since you first switched to Firefox.

You mentioned it once but didn’t push,

Perhaps sensing my hesitancy.

I declined; didn’t even look into it.

Said, “Self, I’ve always used Internet Explorer.”

‘Twas the worst of human nature –

Fear of change,

Clinging to the old ways.

Squinty-eyed folded-armed suspicion.

Even with the neo-hippiness of my long-past college days

I didn’t believe something created by many people for free

could be as good as something made by a company for profit.

Shame, shame, for shame.

.

Then recently I was encouraged

And somewhat pressured

By a man in black aptly named Code.

I took the plunge.

I pressed Download.

Import Favorites.

Keep my previous homepage.

.

Wha… ?  It’s subtly faster –

Oh.  Oh look how quickly it opens images.

Ooooohhhhh.

And, it … asks me questions.  So many options!

Do I want to save and reopen these tabs next time? YES YES YES!

Open Source I embrace thee!

Like Free Range and Co-Op and CommonWealth.

Like the wireless woven web itself

we are supported by

this quiet glue of many minds at work.

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And I feel so hip with the pretty little world in my toolbar.

Cool beans.  Cool beans.

If I had to pick my number one favorite memory from all of our time overseas I would not hesitate to name attending the Gloucester Cheese Rolling contest.  I wrote about it last year, but wasn’t able to share my video with you until this very special moment.

Cheese Rolling Contest 2008, 2nd Race.  I was there!!!

And that’s it for October – Month of Videos.

Happy Halloween!