The Seattle LIVESTRONG Challenge Ride is a mere 6 months away. I’ll be taking part again this year. And to be honest, I couldn’t be more excited; more nervous; more proud; and more honored. More excited, because it feels good to do good. To raise money to fight a horrible thing [...]
From Time.com, Original Story Here
David Chameides is not your average American. For one thing, the TV cameraman owns two Emmy awards — how many do you have? But more importantly, while the average American throws out around 1,700 lbs. of trash annually, for the past year Chameides has thrown out absolutely nothing. A deep [...]
There were a great many themes that I really latched on to in Obama’s speech last night. Several threads resonated with me. This morning I had an email in my box from We Can Solve It I thought this was an awesome, non-partisan video that lit a little fire under my butt, and [...]
I hate to interrupt all of our fabulous summers with talk of schools already, but I figured that’s it’s really sort of a cloudy, gray, almost ugly, morning; that it would be alright to bring it up.
Anyone who has had an education conversation with me knows, that I feel pretty passionately about a great many [...]
Everyone knows of my particular affinity for the nations most popular building material, and a new record has been set.
I am sure that I have linked some things from the TED talks series here before. This is a short (5:40) video showing how pioneer Johnny Lee transforms a simple game console controller into a powerful tool for educators, for very little money.
At the close of today’s much contested debates in OH, RI, TX, and VT, I thought that I would share some pictures from Aidan’s first rally.
If you are anything like me, you think most hours spent in front of the glow of an LCD monitor, are hours well spent. I understand the occasionally need for exercise or food, or blinking, but …
So I was wondering what the whole deal was, with having a caucus and a primary, and went out looking … I found this great explanation from one of my favorite local geeks. Vanessa Fox.
Washington State Has a Caucus And A Primary? Why Both? What’s a Caucus Anyway?: “
This is a post in two [...]
Last year, at the beginning of this blog, I led with my New Years Resolution, which was to “Be Shiny and Bright”. I think I put forward a really solid effort. I am sure that I left a little to be desired from time to time, but overall I think I did quite [...]
I guess I need a tag for touting my own horn … but if anyone reads this blog, I hope that you take a moment to go on over to a site that I made, and maintain, and more than that, am really proud of. www.sanislo.org Using wordpress and flickr we have a great [...]
So, I don’t ususully do much in the way of reposting other people’s content … but that being said. Boss Man posted a blog entry about wanting to get some ideas for some new reads … which, of course led to a whole series of comments. Most of which are blogs that I either, already subscribe [...]
