Monthly Archives: September 2011

I think the Kindle Fire is a huge winner, but I see that Nook Color has an advantage over both the iPad 2 and the Kindle Fire with one pretty significant feature:  Expandable storage.  The Nook Color has an SD … Continue reading →

Day 38 of 1000 I LOVE my Barnes and Noble Nook Color.  It is easy to read, easy to program, easy to buy books, easy, easy, easy.  It is not perfect.  Email and web browsing is not particularly convenient.  Still, … Continue reading →

I am a huge fan of Michael Egnor., a neurosurgeon and relatively recent convert to Catholicism who writes on intelligent design and the mind/brain problem.  I loved it when he started writing on the Discovery Institute‘s Evolution News and Views … Continue reading →

Day 37 of 1000 I finished reading Hugh Hewitt‘s book, Blog Understanding the Information Reformation That’s Changing Your World.  I liked the book a lot because it described some interesting events I watched closely at the time they were happening.  … Continue reading →

Day 36 of 1000 I do not know whether Lorena just gets odd teachers, she brings out the strangeness in them, or just notices stuff that other people do not notice.  She studies Financial Accounting this summer from a very … Continue reading →

Day 36 of 1000 I do not know whether Lorena just gets odd teachers, she brings out the strangeness in them, or just notices stuff that other people do not notice.  She studies Financial Accounting this summer from a very … Continue reading →

It is very suspicious that I found my workout bag in the driver seat of my pickup this morning and I just got a text message from Lorena telling me not to forget to do my workout.  I don’t suppose … Continue reading →

Day 35 of 1000 I am not one of those guys who hates birthdays and/or their age.  I turned 56 on Saturday, a bunch of which I spent driving across the beautiful North Carolina countryside between Raleigh and Charlotte.  It … Continue reading →

Day 32 of 1000 This blog is well over seven years old now.  This is 1740th post.  The only thing I wanted to do with this blog is keep a record of our homeschool.  It has served its purpose quite … Continue reading →

Day 31 of 1000 Kelly needs to write and publish as many blog, newspaper, and magazine articles as possible to refine her skills:  interviewing, writing, editing etc.  She needs to build a portfolio to help her win future opportunities.  Last … Continue reading →

Day 30 of 1000 Kelly’s education plan has started to solidify.  The end goal is to get into the best Journalism Masters Degree program possible.  Her planned undergraduate degree is Statistics, so that means she will have to work pretty … Continue reading →

Day 29 of 1000 I walk around my neighborhood most nights for forty minutes or so.  There is a loop that is almost exactly one mile, so I go at least two laps.  I need to kick it up a … Continue reading →

Day 28 of 1000 Steven Brill is a liberal guy who wrote a book about government schools in a America.  Bill Bennett had him on his morning talk show this morning.  Both Bennett and Brill agreed that (very roughly), about … Continue reading →

I love Otis Redding.  I listen to him quite a lot these days on Pandora.  Pandora (the subscription my niece gave me was my best Christmas present, ever) selects songs that are similar to the songs you have already identified … Continue reading →

Day 26 of 1000 We made a pretty big break-through in our thousand day plan yesterday.  For the kids that plan entails, not only getting an undergraduate degree in something hard, but doing other stuff that will help them get … Continue reading →

Day 25 of 1000 My daughter, Kelly, wants to work as a journalist.  We both agree a that a journalism (or any other liberal arts) undergraduate degree is not the best way to learn anything of value, especially in a … Continue reading →

Day 24 of 1000 I get into work a little earlier than everyone else at the place where I work.  A couple of the other early risers usually stop by my desk after they get their coffee to talk for … Continue reading →

Day 23 of 1000 Kelly’s blog is getting very, very interesting and will attract a following as soon as people figure out that she is writing AND illustrating here very other worldly experience at the community college.  The writing is … Continue reading →

Day 23 of 1000 Kelly’s blog is getting very, very interesting and will attract a following as soon as people figure out that she is writing AND illustrating here very other worldly experience at the community college.  The writing is … Continue reading →