Category: miscellaneous

  • Missing things

    Overheard today: “I like my iWatch because before I’d miss calls and texts.” I wonder how much gets missed by all that not missing?

  • Latest episode of Mason's adventure in autodidaction

    With the first full week of this year’s run at Mason’s adventure in autodidaction (Executive decison: from hence forth that will be the show name!) in the books, we sat down and did a week in review. If you’re interested in how he spent his days and what he’s picking up take a listen. I’m…

  • 90 Second Book Review: The Righteous Mind

    I need to pick up the pace on getting these quick reviews done, with the goal of getting them hammered out pretty much as soon as I finish the book.  I finished this one a week ago and have already picked up and read into a couple of other books.  As a result, this review…

  • Success is a lie from Daily Zen

    Work on yourself, look within, and stop trying to beat the piñata of the world into giving you a few ephemeral pieces of candy. From: The daily zen

  • Weekend review: weeding, canning and podcasting

    This was a nice weekend to be outdoors, so I spent a lot of it getting the fence lines cleaned up in eventual preparation for a repainting.  Still have to figure out a way to clear a line through the woods.  A bushog attached to a bobcat is the leading contender. I also spent some…

  • 90 second book review: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    An oldie but a goodie this week.  This was another one that was on my “to read” list that made it’s way on to “to buy” list as a result of a quarterly trip to Half Price Books and then on to my “reading now” list as I was looking at my stack before a…

  • Adventure Time x Mad Max

    As a fan of both this is pure genius.  

  • Chatting with Mason about Home Education

    Mason and I are going to give a go at a weekly podcast just chatting about the last / next week of home education.  It’s mostly just to give us an anchor, which is code for saying I am not sure that anyone else will find this useful or interesting.  But here is the first…

  • 90 second book review: The Obstacle is the Way

    I first heard of Stoic philosophy a little over a year ago.  It immediately appealed to me (another book I just started would say that was more intuition than reasoning, but that review will come later) and I downloaded a copy of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (the link is to the translation that everyone says you should…