August 2011
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ListenAbide With Me, our church’s Hymn of the...
Aug 9th
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July 2011
1 post
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Jul 15th
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June 2011
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Ideas for summer activities for kids
I’ve seen a few of these so I thought I’d collect them here. Then I did a search—wow, there are a lot! I haven’t looked at them all but there might be some good ideas in there. 14 Outdoor Activities to do With Your Kids This Summer | Zen Family Habits Readers’ Tips for a Simple Summer with Kids | Modern*Simplicity 38 Kid Crafts and Boredom Busters for Spring...
Jun 28th
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Jun 21st
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May 2011
2 posts
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“When nothing is certain, managing change becomes everyone’s day job.”
– The Day Job, Redefined - Harvard Business Review Interesting.
May 14th
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May 9th
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April 2011
2 posts
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Apr 19th
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Let Amazon help you better navigate your local library I took our kids to the library a couple weeks ago and I wish I would have had a list of books ready to pick out. This looks like a good method.
Apr 5th
March 2011
2 posts
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What is the appropriate duration for a proper...
tired-n-lonely asked: What is the appropriate duration for a proper handshake? One thousand one. —1001 rules for my unborn son
Mar 23rd
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“Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully inform...”
– Battle: Los Angeles :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews (via jeffmiller) Is this the best movie review ever? Why, yes, I think it is.
Mar 10th
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December 2010
3 posts
5 tags
“The sun rises every morning. I do not rise every morning; but the variation is...”
– G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (via ayjay) (via lotech) (via charlesgomes) (via sds) [obviously I had this bookmarked to reblog since I should have done it long ago.]
Dec 30th
Dec 27th
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Dec 22nd
November 2010
2 posts
3 tags
On coal and energy
Extended quote from The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne, 1874: “But now, my dear Cyrus, all this industrial and commercial movement to which you predict a continual advance, does it not run the danger of being sooner or later completely stopped?” “Stopped! And by what?” “By the want of coal, which may justly be called the most precious of minerals.” ...
Nov 20th
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Nov 2nd
October 2010
9 posts
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Oct 27th
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Oct 26th
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Oct 22nd
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Education links
A few recent links about the current (and future) state of education I’ve come across lately: ‘The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching’ - Knowledge@Wharton Essential skills you didn’t learn in college Schools of a Different Sort: Four Alternative Educations - Education - GOOD YouTube - RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms When to Call it a Day |...
Oct 21st
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Oct 19th
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“From labor health, from health contentment springs.”
– BEATTIE (And from God, all of the above.)
Oct 18th
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The Truth About Thanksgiving Is that the Debunkers... →
Interesting. It’s about that time; this will be coming up again, I’m sure.
Oct 7th
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The Language of Food: Ceviche and Fish & Chips →
The history and connection of ceviche and fish & chips. Very interesting.
Oct 6th
Ok, Tumblr’s queue feature has been fixed and improved so let’s try it out. Expect a post a day or so instead of the weekly link collection. Probably mostly about food.
Oct 6th
September 2010
6 posts
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“At thirty man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his...”
– YOUNG via Many Thoughts of Many Minds Today I know I’m a fool. Time to reform my plan.
Sep 28th
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Collected links (weekly)
How Severe is U.S. pension debt? | CalWatchDog Good overview of the pension problem. Chef Tony Maws – Eatocracy - 5 Reasons Our Grandmothers...
Sep 13th
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“Text and email are polite invitations to a conversation. They happen at the...”
– Scott Adams: Phone (via marco)
Sep 10th
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Collected links (weekly)
AfriGadget: Solving everyday problems with African ingenuity This looks like a great blog. Instapundit » Blog Archive » IN RESPONSE TO LAST NIGHT’S DISASTER-PREP POST, a...
Sep 7th
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From @davidduran’s favorite economist, a rebuttal to A Home May Never Be A Good Investment Again: Housing has Perhaps Never Been a Better Bargain
Sep 3rd
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Collected links (weekly)
Al Dente: Essential Tool For Cooking With Kids: Step Stool Entanglement Fun flash game/puzzle. ...
Sep 2nd
August 2010
8 posts
4 tags
Aug 27th
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A Home May Never Be a Good Investment Again →
“[B]uying a home is a willful act of optimism.” [link]
Aug 26th
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“There Is a Clash of Civilizations, and We’re Not Protecting Ours”
– The Slatest - Slate Magazine Is there really anyone that doesn’t believe this? Related, this video is worth 8 minutes: Dennis Prager Q & A At University of Denver
Aug 25th
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Collected links (weekly)
Make It Healthy, Make It Fun: Six Ways to Involve Kids in the Kitchen | Food | Disney Family.com Puffed Snacks 1: Wherefore the Puff? Next...
Aug 24th
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Christianity - It often happens that one who is not a Christian… New post on Christianity.tumblr.com How To Compost Without Raising a...
Aug 18th
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Collected links (weekly)
Christianity - Pray for the Moral Decency and Civility of your Nation New post on Christianity.tumblr.com Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine...
Aug 10th
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“A large majority of voters citizens have been asleep at the switch, and public employees have been awarding themselves constantly-increasing salaries and pension benefits. Those benefits have now swelled to the point where there is no possibility that taxpayers can fund them.” —Power Line - Two Americas: The Reality (my emphasis and edit) via Instapundit. This is exactly where...
Aug 9th
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Collected links (weekly)
Instapundit » Blog Archive » GALLUP: More States “Competitive” in Terms of Party Identification. “But don’t get cocky, Republicans. They don’t call you the “stupid party” for nothing.” ...
Aug 2nd
July 2010
6 posts
1 tag
Duty
Collection of quotes on Duty from the book, Many Thoughts of Many Minds Duty grows everywhere, like children, like grass.—EMERSON The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our duty and find in it our pleasure.—MME. DE MOTTEVILLE Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to...
Jul 30th
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Collected links (weekly)
In The Land Of Mao, A Rising Tide Of Christianity Among Chinese : NPR Interesting. (via Instapundit) Please Pass the Mass-Produced, Salty, Delicious Ketchup - Food Media - - CHOW Salsa is a million things. Ketchup is one(also). (see also sriracha) Putting the Egg in Eggplant Parmigiana - Diner’s Journal Blog - NYTimes.com This sounds worth trying. It is well to have...
Jul 28th
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Bloglovin →
I’m checking out Bloglovin’. Like Rososo.com, it’s a reader for blogs that are better read at the blog than in a reader. (Thanks to Purple Pinafore for the tip.)
Jul 28th
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"Give us the freedom intended for us"
This is a horrifying, illuminating, and valuable thing to read. (PLF Liberty Blog) (Related)
Jul 23rd
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Collected links (weekly)
Trying a new idea for some of the things I run across: Site Tour - Food.com Cool, Recipezaar.com is now Food.com. Featured Recipe: Spare Ribs With Olives, Lemon and Rosemary -...
Jul 21st
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Jul 17th
May 2010
2 posts
3 tags
I know I’m a bit behind the news cycle here, but Jeff Jarvis’s stories about the ash cloud are fascinating.
May 5th
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May 3rd
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April 2010
4 posts
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Last night's "Lost" recap | StarTribune.com →
I think Lileks is right. He wrote the best LOST recap ever.
Apr 29th
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Studying the web: BuzzMachine →
Perhaps one day NRM* will write a doctoral thesis in Web Science. It’s impossible to even imagine how different the world will be in ~20 years. Doesn’t that mean the Singularity** has effectively already happened? * **My (limited) understanding of the Singularity was that it was defined roughly as the point of such rapid technological advancement that the world of the next...
Apr 14th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 9th