Category: miscellaneous
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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?
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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…
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Adventure Time x Mad Max
As a fan of both this is pure genius.
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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…
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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…