Like there was any chance that the LA Times could write an article about an iconic 80s tune without me noticing. When I was in high school my metalhead cred required me to hate Journey. Now that I’m older and wiser I can look back and realize that the guys getting lucky with the high […]
This looks like a fantastic book. With one at 10th grade age and the other at 8th grade age, the timing on this is perfect for us. Maybe the author will see this and send me an advance copy. After all, how many other home education blogs have been online since 2001?
I furthered my son’s musical education last night by taking him to the Zoso show. He’ll never have the chance to see Zeppelin live. I won’t either. I was just a few years too young to have caught Zeppelin back in the 70s.
The start of the evening was a bit of a farce as […]
It’s been a while since we featured a ukelele video here. In this case, I can mix in homeschooling too as the kid in this video is an unschooler, and child of official ODonnellWeb chocolatier Kris Bordessa.
My adventures with Blue Cross have been documented here in great detail.
Blue Cross is trying to kill my wife
BCBS is trying to kill my wife – II
More shady operations from BCBS
Still no cure for diabetes
The problem with healthcare in a nutshell
So I’m only more than happy to point you to somebody who took on BCBS, […]
Flow, as defined by Dale McGowan, is when we’re completely in the moment, so intensely focused on the activity at hand that we lose track of time. It’s one of the most deeply satisfying and meaningful states we can enter.
The point of his blog post is that we parents need to help our kids […]
Earlier today I got a new follower notification from Twitter. The Tin Foil Five is now following me. It didn’t scream obvious spam link so I clicked through. It turns out that they are a local metal band. I didn’t know we had any original metal in Fred. Vegas, so that’s cool to know. I’d like […]
New header graphic – reload the page while holding the shift key down if you aren’t seeing it.
The daily bookmarks will no longer create a post every day. They are in the sidebar, and the RSS feed is at the top of the page if you want to subscribe to a feed of whatever I […]
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I’ve been using Yahoo Zimbra Desktop as my email client on my work laptop for about two weeks. I’m impressed. I hate Outlook with a passion, and can’t use Thunderbird for work because I need to be able to send email in 10 pt Verdana (don’t ask). Zimbra passes the first test, I can specify […]
