Category: Interesting Stuff
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Should American Children Learn Spanish or Chinese to Prepare for Their Future?
So, we’ve decided to homeschool our kids starting this year and one of the things we would like our children to learn is a foreign language. Our problem is that we are in disagreement as to what language they should learn: the language of the eventual majority (Spanish) or the language of our debt collectors, the Chinese?…
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Off Pocket – A privacy case for mobile phones (better than being turned off?)
Editor-at-Large, T.R., pointed out this link to me yesterday and though I still need to research it AND the device apparently isn’t even available for purchase yet, I really liked it and figured I would share it today. OFF Pocket™ is basically akin to an EMP case for your cell phone in that once inside…
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If I Could Only Follow One Person On Pinterest… It Would Be MomWithAPrep
I’m such a HUGE fan of Pinterest these days… there’s so much to see yet so little time! Strangely, I had an email the other day that had basically asked me about Pinterest and who would be a good person to follow. My immediate response was “you mean somebody besides my boards?” Because, after all,…
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Our 30 Acts of Kindness Recap – How About You?
Yesterday I mentioned that we were going to do a “random” act of kindness day which was inspired by a person wanting to celebrate her 38th birthday a while back (here’s a link to her original article). Well, it turned out to be a success and, despite my best efforts otherwise, turned out to be an all day…
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Remember That Today is “Random Act of Kindness” Day – Give it a Shot!
A few days ago I mentioned that my family and I are doing a random act of kindness day today. Normally, this isn’t something I would ever willfully do on my own–this is just one of many reasons why I’m better off married to my wife–and since we’re about to head out on the town…
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Are Most of Us Really Armchair Preppers?
I’m sure you’ve heard the term “armchair quarterback” before. The term usually refers to a person who didn’t do the job or perform the act later stating what should have been done or how “they would have done it” after the fact… it can be about anything really, from an actual football game to how…
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Friday is Random Act of Kindness Day… Care to Join Us?
A week or so ago my wife found a Pinterest pin where a woman wanted to celebrate her 38th birthday with performing one “random” act of kindness for each year of life and ended up spending an entire day doing so. FYI, here’s a link to her original article. My wife decided it would be…
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So I Was Looking for a Copy of Moby Dick Online…
A month or so ago I was looking for a copy of Moby Dick as I had never read it (I think it was mentioned in a movie I watched) and I thought to myself “hey, self, you should read that” and then I thought “hey… I should read other classics too!” I used to…
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I Don’t Need That, I Don’t Need That… I Don’t Need That Either…
The other day I ALMOST had to make a trip to Wally World to get a new pair of clippers to shave the boys heads because the old one didn’t seem to want to work at first. Fortunately, we got it functioning–barely–but probably need to replace it in the near future. Regardless, in the interim…