We are all familiar with Microsoft Word and Excel. Most of us are familiar with Open Office, or Libre Office as the current non corporate controlled fork is called. However, very few people are familiar with Gnumeric and AbiWord, and that is a shame. Gnumeric is a open source replacement for a commercial spreadsheet (*cough* […]
I did not overcharge people to get more money. I overcharged people because they were dicks and deserved it. Vengeance is mine. The 2nd feature in the documentary double feature today was The Parking Lot Movie. This movie you absolutely want to see. If you enjoyed the movie Clerks, this is essentially the real life […]
Being stuck home on beagle sitting duty today, I decided it was a good day for a documentary double feature. The first feature was an odd flick, produced by Morgan Spurlock, that follows street performer, activist Rev. Billy across the country as he and his gospel choir showed up at malls and shopping centers to […]
…home-schooling advocate Michael Ferris was one of many right-wing activists complaining about Reagan by the end of his presidency, writing that his White House "offered us a bunch of political trinkets." Sigh. In an otherwise perfectly fine reminder that the Regan legacy imagined by conservatives is just that; imagined, The Washington Post has to go […]
There’s something I’ve noticed a lot that can make things really difficult for us unschoolers, and that is this: unschoolers are always held to a higher standard than those with more traditional educational backgrounds. I don’t believe that the author was unschooled. Her writing is clear and concise, and lacks grammar and spelling errors. We […]
In a 2006 survey, 30 percent of people without a high school degree said that playing the lottery was a wealth-building strategy It’s bad enough the government run lotteries are essentially a tax on ignorance. The thought that somebody may have already pulled out the likely winners from the scratch off tickets just makes it […]
A study at Stanford suggests that encountering all our happy friends and their perfect lives on Facebook is making us feel like crap, when we realize our lives don’t measure up. I can believe that on some intuitive level. If you are trying to start a family and are confronted daily by the blow by […]
Pretty much my entire homeschooling reading list is in this post. These lists are often link bait. This one may be too, but the author at least took the time to poke around each site, which is more than most of them do. # O’DonnellWeb: Not everything Chris O’Donnell (no relation) posts up here has […]
In 1992, my wife was a lead pre-school teacher in Georgia. She made $9.75 an hour. Last week, she was offered a lead teacher’s position from a national chain that you’ve heard of. She was offered $8.50 an hour. 19 years later and the pay for the people we pay to take care of our […]
Xubuntu is a lightweight derivitive of Ubuntu. It works better on older computers. What you lose with that is some of the overhead that makes things in Ubuntu pointy and clicky. That said, I don’t think you can point and click this in Ubuntu either. However, it really is not hard to make Xubuntu, Gmail, […]
