One of the things that I have noticed on my daily commute is how disconnected we are from our environment. When I get in line to catch a ride some people will already have headphones on. So they are there physically, but you can’t really interact with them. On the ride to the Pentagon, nobody […]
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A school board member, successful in the real world by any measure, takes his local 10th grade achievement test. He fails. This does not surprise me at all. Last year when Breck was preparing for the SAT, I was getting the SAT question of the day via email. I did fine on the verbal section, […]
Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t monsters, they’re liars. via Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism – ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews. Possibly Related Posts:Scooby Doo DoorsMore testsElsewhere on the Internet (December 3rd 11:22)JJ’s guest post at Parenting Beyond BeliefYo Ho Ho […]
The kids and myself headed to the mountains this AM for a 8 mile circuit hike of Old Rag. I’m not going to lie to you Marge, it wasn’t the easiest hike we’ve done. Steeply up for the first 3 miles, with lots of rock hopping, actual hand over hand rock climbing, and several leaps […]
When you can fit 20,000 songs on a thumb drive, and 1000 books on a Kindle, the concept of a “collection” becomes sort of meaningless. I was thinking about this recently as I scrolled through my MP3 collection, wondering where the heck some of the stuff on my server even came from. Back in the […]
Today Congress is debating SOPA, which will essentially give big business the power to censor the Internet of anything they don’t like. They’ve completely stacked the deck with 5 out 6 witnesses being plants by the pro-SOPA lobbyists. I’m not exaggerating when I say this bill, if passed, will essentially break the Internet and cost […]
Regular readers know that I am a big Butch Walker fan. So it did not take me long to ante up for his first book, Drinking With Strangers. It’s insightful, occasionally touching, but mostly it’s just damn funny. We learn how a hair metal band can sign a $400,000 contract yet still be essentially living […]
Yeah, it’s funny now. But in 1999, the Clinton administration was projecting that the US would be debt free next year. The economy was booming and the government was running a surplus. They even were studying the question of what that would mean. It’s not as easy as it sounds. The Treasury Bond is the […]
60 days of having less Google in my life, and somehow, my life doesn’t feel empty of less fulfilling at all. Huh. I’m a raving fan of Duck Duck Go. I strongly encourage both my readers to give it a try. I don’t miss Google search at all. As mentioned in the last update, I […]
