October 19, 2007 – 10:53 am
I read Pyromaniacs the other day, and happened upon this post that has a video of Slam Poet, Taylor Mali.
Intrigued, I read more about Taylor, found his blog, and burned my two remaining Audible credits on two of his recordings.
Angie wants me to post, and though I’m unable to start into an appropriate meter, [...]
September 14, 2007 – 9:41 am
The other night, I watched the movie Accepted. Its a teenage centered flick about a bunch of kids that couldn’t get accepted at mainstream colleges so they fake a college acceptance letter from a fake school, then in order to keep from being discovered build a school (South Hampton Institute of Technology … *smirk*).
They [...]
August 27, 2007 – 8:47 am
No moreGrab your pencils
No moreGrab your books
No more teacher’sDon’t give your teacher dirty looks
Well we you’ve got no class
And we got no principlesWave ‘Hi’ to the Principal
And we<you’d got no better have innocence
We can’t evenYou’d better think of a word that rhymes
School’s out in for summer winter!
School’s out IN forever
(orig lyrics)
Now, if someone could [...]
March 26, 2007 – 10:38 am
First, to help set the stage for why I think doing this Financial Peace thing, read this day-by-day strip, g’head, I’ll wait.
back? good.
I don’t want to know how much of our money each month goes to interest. Not just mortgage interest, but credit card interest. My lord, I think we could probably fund all of [...]
March 20, 2007 – 11:10 am
As my children grow older, we are starting to see some of the fruits of whatever parenting wisdom we’ve somehow induced into our children. This past weekend had a few moments where I felt awful proud of my kids and how they have grown and molded. The four year old still has some rough patches [...]
November 16, 2006 – 2:16 pm
I blogged tangentially on Phil Johnson’s Lordship series in my post ‘Morphin’ Time…‘. Last night I wrapped up my class that surveyed John Ortberg’s The Life You’ve Always Wanted. Today Phil has posted the last of the Lordship series and an open post for any doubters/debators to keep on whaling on the horse [...]
November 2, 2006 – 6:32 pm
A while back I posted about Lauren being able to talk live to space astronaut/tourist Anousheh Ansari. Tonight she is in town at the Dallas Frontiers of Flight Museum and has a special hour put aside simply for the kids that were invited to the previous event. It is really cool that they [...]
October 3, 2006 – 9:05 am
One of Protein Wisdom’s guest bloggers, Dan Collins points to an interesting article on “minimally invasive education.” The introduction to the article explains the premise (a fascinating skinner box experiment).
An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in [...]
September 26, 2006 – 10:51 pm
Lauren got to listen to Anousheh Ansari in space on , the world’s first female space tourist, the first female Muslim, and the first Iranian in space. WFAA ran a story on their newscast, and have a video available. I wasn’t able to see Lauren in the video, but I’m sure it was [...]
