I've been thinking about Aikido. For a long time, I've wondered what Aikido would look like in a different arena of life---say, an argument or something. I think I might have figured it out... To clarify, I'm talking about arguments where people are actually mad at each other, and don't have much control ( Read more... )

North Central Church of Christ - I'm excited about them because it looks like they have an interesting take on church music.  I want to go and hear and see what it's like.  http://nc3family.org/visitors-what-to-expect.php
United Presbyterian Church - Looks interesting because of multicultural stuff... the Food Fair looks wonderful.  Don't know much ( Read more... )

I've been getting twitchy about needing a community of people to share
myself with and to learn from and to be with. S and I have been
working on finding a church that could work for both of us (and M!).
I am not sure about church in general, and not totally sure about God,
but maybe I can be sure about a specific church. Church (I am hoping)
has ( Read more... )

R is a great, open source language for doing statistics. MATLAB is a powerful tool and language for all sorts of numerical computations, popular in academic settings ( Read more... )

Hey, friends!
What are some good good books for reading together with 9 year olds? Right now we're reading The Enormous Egg, which is very fun...

I asked for an invite to Google Voice and got one... and now I'm not going to use it, I think. Mmmm ( Read more... )

If you like good stories and are interested in things, I suspect that you might be interested in last week's This American Life, which features the Planet Money team catching up with people involved in the mortgage business, whom they last talked to a year and a half ago for the Giant Pool of Money show ( Read more... )

I just had a large internal struggle to send an e-mail that was only a teeny bit mean, rather than very ranty. So I need to chill and talk about nice stuff with my friends, so I can go to sleep ( Read more... )

S and her daughter found a Monarch caterpillar the other week, and spent a lot of effort on finding milkweed plants (S went to every nursery in town, and found 1 plant, which was just a baby and only kept Stripes (the caterpillar) going for a day or so). Then, a few days ago, Stripes pupated! A lime-green blob! And finally, yesterday, Stripes ( Read more... )

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people ( Read more... )