This is the last time I'll pester you, I promise. The DonorsChoose challenge ends after the end of this month, and we've done well. We met my goal of raising $20,000 dollars, 200 freethinkers have stepped up to make donations, and 30 of my 31 chosen projects have been fully funded. That does mean that there is one project that isn't quite there yet: Embryology in the Classroom is $292 shy of completion. If a few more could chip in a few more dollars, we can achieve perfection.
Good work, everyone!
More like this
A relative of mine just sent me the following brainteaser. Since it never hurts to flex one's mental muscles, I thought I'd pass it along:
In the land of the euro, the dollar is treated like a banana republic(an) currency. The devaluation of the dollar isn't such an awful thing: it was long overdue.
When I was a little kid I used to take a pair of dice and throw these dice repeatedly. At each throw I'd fill in a box for the corresponding number on some graph paper and I would essentially "race" the numbers against each other.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. A bit of each, I suppose. When I was a young man, traveling in Europe was great for Americans. For starters, everybody didn't hate us (thanks George!). For another, everything was cheap. The dollar was strong so the exchange rate favored us.
Looks like all your projects have been fully funded now. Impressive.
You posted at 6:00AM and by the time I saw this post at 8:45AM the project was fully funded!
Looking at the numbers people have donated got me to think about how much good the money used on AiG's Creation museum could have done.
Kristjan @#3
I was feeling warm and fuzzy, now I'm just depressed. I guess I'm going to have to go read my emails from the recipients again.
Well darn it! The last one was funded already when I read the post. So is this project not on the Pharyngula Challenge list: http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=114724
Well, I thought it looked like a cool project!