Project Drinking Buddy
Hello internet.
I hope you have come here because you've seen my pleas on social media and want to know what I'm raving about. I will explain my concept to you simply:
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My Thoughts on Common Core
I read a piece by Cory Doctorow called Standardized testing and schools as factories: Louis CK versus Common Core which talks about a comedian who dislikes the application of Common Core.
I'm not writing to defend Common Core, at least not fully. People around our district that talk about it seem to have a limited understanding or a skewed perspective on what it is. I think the problems with Common Core are often not what people most frequently surface.
Pack 32 Pinewood Derby 2014
Last Saturday, Riley and I took our car to compete at Cub Pack 32's pinewood derby race, placing 2nd among the 33 racers submitting cars.
Last year's car didn't make it out of the shaping phase. We got the car down to the shape and added weight, but I forgot to weigh it with the wheels. When I tried to take some wood out of the center with a rotary saw, it went haywire, taking out way too much wood, extremely weakening the car frame, and still coming out overweight. We had to bow out of the race. But not this year.
Family TV
There's a handful of good programs on "TV" these days. Berta and I have been enjoying House of Cards, True Detectives, and The Walking Dead, for example. Game of Thrones is soon to return to the screen, and we watched the first episode of Black Sails last night, which wasn't bad. But none of these shows are appropriate for our kids, aged 9 and 12.
Well, that's not completely true. There are shows that are designed for 9 or 12-year-olds. But those shows are of no interest to Berta or me. They're all trite and lack complexity. And I'm not against cartoons, but it would be nice to watch something together that's not a cartoon.