The first seven (7) people to respond to this post will get something made by me ( Read more... )

Marie mentioned this elsewhere on the intarweb, so while I've got brief internet access, I thought I would sneak on to livejournal quick and let the three or four people who read this know that Marie and I are expecting our first child, due March 7th or 9th, depending on who you ask ( Read more... )

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At long last, I'm finally getting around to a post I meant to make weeks ago. I'm not going to go as link crazy as I have in the past, but feel free to google around ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is Science Saturday. This is the big "science event for 4th - 8th graders" that Marie has been working on all semester. She's basically the paid student organizer. And I'm the unpaid spouse minion. But it's been pretty enjoyable for the most part, and I think tomorrow ought to be a really good time. But right now we're both mostly ( Read more... )

Last week I posed the question should we encourage competition between students?

There was a range of thoughts on the matter. Not surprisingly, my fellow educators were advocates of, at the least, finding ways to push students to excel. Pretty much everyone agreed the bell curve sucks, and isn't very practical.

First, a few responses. evilleprechaun pointed ( Read more... )

I read an article today that reminded me of, well, other articles I've read. It was a woman asking about, as a Christian, whether or not she should marry, or even date, a non-Christian. If you're like me, maybe this doesn't seem like a very big issue. People of different faiths (or substrains of faith, or moral codes, or whatever) get married ( Read more... )

I realized I hadn't written here in about, oh... 5 months. So I figured I was due ( Read more... )

Crimeny I forgot how much work there is in going to college. Take 9 months off and suddenly... BAM!... too much to do, not enough time. Of course, the back-to-back weekend college days coinciding with my first major computer programing project doesn't help ( Read more... )

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