As a kid, I once started to look at a book on how to draw things. It was probably filled with reasonably good advice, but I didn't keep looking at it for very long. Maybe I looked at it as a possible purchase (or to ask for...) but the information didn't make sense to me. What it did was start off with drawing lines and circles and ovals to rough ( Read more... )

A few new folks have shown up on IRC recently. It's been interesting, if disheartening, to find that some things seem not to change.

I'll quote one person, "I joined the #warnercafe on mirc and was at least welcomed with a "hello" right away. That's pretty rare from the few rooms that I've been to." Shouldn't being welcomed or at least ( Read more... )

When I was attending a technical school I wound up making a bit of money, or perhaps I should say offsetting some of the expense, by tutoring. Most was within the settings of the tech school itself, as part of its own program. There was one instance where it was outside the tech school and was for a kid in (junior) high school, who needed help ( Read more... )