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(Jul 23)

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One year! (Taken with instagram)

(May 24)

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Perfect balance of espresso and ice (Taken with instagram)

(May 08)

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Railroad museum (Taken with instagram)

(May 05)

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Helping Grandpa move (Taken with instagram)pjho

(May 02)

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Back to my favorite summertime drink (Taken with instagram)

(Apr 27)

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I’m going to have to find a new fork. (Taken with instagram)

(Apr 27)

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Our new street (Taken with instagram)

(Apr 19)

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Pooped (Taken with instagram)

(Apr 10)

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Moving day (Taken with instagram)

(Apr 07)

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This is like a law or something, right? You have to use Instagram to take pictures of coffee? (note: add “Instagram” to Android spellcheck) (Taken with instagram)

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Look out (Taken with instagram)

(Apr 03)

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Abide With Me, our church’s Hymn of the Month. More info here.

(Aug 08)

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(via Another Pint Please…: Latitude 48 IPA: Deconstructed)

My lovely wife picked this up for me a while back and it was very cool to try. This guy’s review is spot on except I liked the Simcoe better than the Zeus. I believe the description on the label was “profound bitterness”. If you like IPAs, this is well worth a try.

(Jul 15)

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 Break | Tip Junkie

5 Simple (and Free) Ways to Entertain a Young Child | New Urban Habitat

101 Kids Summer Activities | Squidoo

14 Cheap Things to Do this Summer | Frugal Dad

Cheap summer activities for kids | Wallet Pop

Added: 101 Amazingly Awesome Things to do with Your Preschooler | Southern Disposition

(Jun 27)

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Bicycle : Bi-weekly : : Semi-cycle : Semi-weekly

There: glad I could get that off my chest.

(Jun 20)

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Pendulum Waves

This is awesome.

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WATCH IT!

Ditto.

(May 09)

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Let Gary Vaynerchuk blow your mind in 57 seconds!
Paul Higgins: This is a very interesting point of view - that we sit on the edge of the sort of change that has happened because people could not understand what the internet could do and that social media and social graphs are going to have the same power. Well worth watching and thinking about. I think he is right.

Post at : Trevor Young

via @rossdawson

(Apr 19)

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 05)

What is the appropriate duration for a proper handshake?

tired-n-lonely asked: What is the appropriate duration for a proper handshake?

One thousand one.

—1001 rules for my unborn son

(Mar 23)

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The Christmas Story, as you’ve never seen it before. Very well done. Did you know Joseph and Mary had New Zealander accents?

Good stuff.

(Dec 27)

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Very cool pic: Merry Christmas 2010 (by Mike)

(Dec 22)

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.”

“Yes, the most precious indeed,” replied the engineer; “and it would seem that nature wished to prove that it was so by making the diamond, which is simply pure carbon crystallized.”

“You don’t mean to say, captain,” interrupted Pencroft, “that we burn diamonds in our stoves in the shape of coal?”

“No, my friend,” replied Harding.

“However,” resumed Gideon Spilett, “you do not deny that some day the coal will be entirely consumed?”

“Oh! the veins of coal are still considerable, and the hundred thousand miners who annually extract from them a hundred millions of hundredweights have not nearly exhausted them.”

“With the increasing consumption of coal,” replied Gideon Spilett, “it can be foreseen that the hundred thousand workmen will soon become two hundred thousand, and that the rate of extraction will be doubled.”

“Doubtless; but after the European mines, which will be soon worked more thoroughly with new machines, the American and Australian mines will for a long time yet provide for the consumption in trade.”

“For how long a time?” asked the reporter.

“For at least two hundred and fifty or three hundred years.”

“That is reassuring for us, but a bad look-out for our great- grandchildren!” observed Pencroft.

“They will discover something else,” said Herbert.

“It is to be hoped so,” answered Spilett, “for without coal there would be no machinery, and without machinery there would be no railways, no steamers, no manufactories, nothing of that which is indispensable to modern civilization!”

“But what will they find?” asked Pencroft. “Can you guess, captain?”

“Nearly, my friend.”

“And what will they burn instead of coal?”

“Water,” replied Harding.

“Water!” cried Pencroft, “water as fuel for steamers and engines! water to heat water!”

“Yes, but water decomposed into its primitive elements,” replied Cyrus Harding, “and decomposed doubtless, by electricity, which will then have become a powerful and manageable force, for all great discoveries, by some inexplicable laws, appear to agree and become complete at the same time. Yes, my friends, I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable. Some day the coalrooms of steamers and the tenders of locomotives will, instead of coal, be stored with these two condensed gases, which will burn in the furnaces with enormous calorific power. There is, therefore, nothing to fear. As long as the earth is inhabited it will supply the wants of its inhabitants, and there will be no want of either light or heat as long as the productions of the vegetable, mineral or animal kingdoms do not fail us. I believe, then, that when the deposits of coal are exhausted we shall heat and warm ourselves with water. Water will be the coal of the future.”

“I should like to see that,” observed the sailor.

“You were born too soon, Pencroft,” returned Neb, who only took part in the discussion by these words.

(Nov 19)

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Sunset Flareup (by Mike)

(Nov 02)

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Want vs Need

(Oct 27)

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“Chance favors the connected mind.” Another one of those cool speech animations:

WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson

(Oct 26)

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I linked to this yesterday but I think it’s worth a separate post. RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

(Oct 22)

Education links

A few recent links about the current (and future) state of education I’ve come across lately:

(Oct 21)

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the wisdom and folly of the past, preserved in an earthly heaven

(Oct 19)

The Truth About Thanksgiving Is that the Debunkers Are Wrong

Interesting. It’s about that time; this will be coming up again, I’m sure.

(Oct 07)

The Language of Food: Ceviche and Fish & Chips

The history and connection of ceviche and fish & chips. Very interesting.

(Oct 06)

Ok, Tumblr’s queue feature has been fixed…

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 05)

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 Are (and Always Will Be) Our Culinary Muses
This Altoids Tin BBQ Grill Can Still Cook Dogs and Burgers
Going to have to make one of these.
Redhead Day 2010 >> TotallyCoolPix
Wow, that’s a lot of readheads all in one place.
Cocktail Science in General: Part 1 of 2
If you’re a complete nerd, this stuff is great.

Posted from Diigo.

(Sep 13)

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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 reader emails:
Good advice.
Set Your Kids Free For Some Free Range Learning | GeekDad | Wired.com
Review of a new book about homeschooling. Looks good.

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(Sep 07)

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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 03)

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Al Dente: Essential Tool For Cooking With Kids: Step Stool
Entanglement
Fun flash game/puzzle.

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(Sep 02)

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World Population by Latitude/Longitude

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Fascinating. Also, there aren’t very many people in the Americas.

(Aug 27)

A Home May Never Be a Good Investment Again

“[B]uying a home is a willful act of optimism.” [link]

(Aug 26)

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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 up—after the beef jerky—puffed pig skin and puffed pasta.
Cheap, Healthy, Good: Save Money on Seasonings - MYOM (Make Your Own Mix)
Links to recipes for lots of spice mixes like Old Bay, taco, Lawry’s, Mrs. Dash, etc.

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(Aug 24)

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Christianity - It often happens that one who is not a Christian…
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How To Compost Without Raising a Stink | Squawkfox
Home cured Guanciale recipe | Wrightfood
Now I’m going to have to find some pork jowl.

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(Aug 18)

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Christianity - Pray for the Moral Decency and Civility of your Nation
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Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine / The Compleat Sandwich
This is the most comprehensive article about sandwiches you will ever see.
FFFFOOD - Roundup! “What makes a good tomato sauce?”
New post on ffffood.com

Posted from Diigo.

(Aug 10)

“A large majority of…

“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 the focus should be except and it’s a point that’s often missed in all political discourse. However, it’s not just voters that are responsible. Ctizens who are not voters are even more culpable than those who at least show up at the polls.
(Aug 09)

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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.”

Christianity - Jeremy Taylor: four meditations for sleepless nights
New post on Christianity.tumblr.com.

Privacy wingnuts « BuzzMachine
“Yeah, and then what?” That’s what I always wonder.

All About Chickens | Timeline of a Chicken’s Life.
Cool timeline.
Posted from Diigo.
(Aug 02)

When nothing is certain, managing change becomes everyone’s day job.

The Day Job, Redefined - Harvard Business Review

Interesting.
(May 13)

Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully inform them they are idiots. Young women: If your date likes this movie, tell him you’ve been thinking it over, and you think you should consider spending some time apart.

Battle: Los Angeles :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews (via jeffmiller) Is this the best movie review ever? Why, yes, I think it is.
(Mar 10)

The sun rises every morning. I do not rise every morning; but the variation is due not to my activity, but to my inaction. Now, to put the matter in a popular phrase, it might be true that the sun rises regularly because he never gets tired of rising. His routine might be due, not to a lifelessness, but to a rush of life. The thing I mean can be seen, for instance, in children, when they find some game or joke that they specially enjoy. A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, ‘Do it again’; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, ‘Do it again’ to the sun; and every evening, ‘Do it again’ to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

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 29)

From labor health, from health contentment springs.

BEATTIE (And from God, all of the above.)
(Oct 18)

At thirty man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty, chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve, Resolves–and re-resolves; then dies the same.

YOUNG via Many Thoughts of Many Minds

Today I know I’m a fool. Time to reform my plan.
(Sep 27)

Text and email are polite invitations to a conversation. They happen at the speed and leisure of both the sender and the receiver. In stark contrast, when you get a phone call, it’s almost always a convenient time for the caller and a bad time for the recipient, who I refer to as the “victim” because I insist on accuracy. My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.

Scott Adams: Phone (via marco)
(Sep 09)

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
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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 05)

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The Truth About Thanksgiving Is that the Debunkers Are Wrong

The Language of Food: Ceviche and Fish & Chips

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From 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 03)

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“A large majority of…

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When nothing is certain, managing change becomes everyone’s day job.

Young men: If you attend this crap with friends who admire it, tactfully inform them they are idiots. Young women: If your date likes this movie, tell him you’ve been thinking it over, and you think you should consider spending some time apart.

From labor health, from health contentment springs.

At thirty man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty, chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve, Resolves–and re-resolves; then dies the same.

There Is a Clash of Civilizations, and We’re Not Protecting Ours

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 05)

From
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 03)