Just over a year ago I decided it was time to overcome my post-having-a-baby reading slump, so I joined a Goodreads challenge to read 12 books this year. I just finished #12.
They were:
Saving Capitalism (Robert Reich)
In the Unlikely Event (Judy Bloom)
MaddAddam (Margaret Atwood)
The Year of the Flood (Margaret Atwood - yes, I read these in the wrong
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I also spent the afternoon deleting my Flickr/Yahoo, LinkedIn, Reddit, Meetup, AIM, Skype, Nextdoor, Pinterest and Pandora accounts, and many more I can't remember. A++ would spend afternoon cleaning up online presence again
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We threw ourselves a goodbye party today. In the afternoon, lots of our friends with kids came with their kids. In the evening, more friends without kids came and things got less shrieky in a hurry
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I am cross-posting this from Facebook so I can get feedback from education-y people who hang out here instead of there:
I forgot who asked me to share research about elementary school homework, but here is a very readable starting point from Slate. This is a controversial question in education research, and the Slate piece skews toward reading
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When I was in junior high, I wanted to be an archaeologist. Not in an "I wanna be Indiana Jones" way, but in a "Stay up late at night reading textbooks on how to do Carbon-14 testing" way. I visited HSU's diminutive natural history museum every week, in the half-hour between Scottish Country Dancing and my violin lesson, to look at the plaster
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Thank you everybody for your career advice! Due in large part to the advice I received, I've decided to slow down a little, get some real-world coding experience under my belt, and try to make sure I'm not jumping prematurely from "Hey, algo class is fun!" to "I should totally get a graduate degree in this
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