Well did Kipling say "The female of the species is more deadly than the male..." An excellent case for not being a sheep, but living as free men and women.
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Chromebook casting — a Best Buy saga
Saturday afternoon we were out shopping around for computers. Betsy wanted a light, portable computer that she could write on, check e-mail. Her dream would be the Surface Pro 3, but that was in a price range of $1K or more to get what she wanted. We could replace her main notebook computer twice with … Continue reading Chromebook casting — a Best Buy saga
A Year’s Difference
My niece Sofia returned from her year as an exchange student in Latvia. We had a party a year ago when we she left, and Saturday we had a party to celebrate her return. At the first party we took pictures with her and our two kids. Saturday I took a similar set of pictures. … Continue reading A Year’s Difference
Price Point
Okay, today's column is on informal economics. At what price will we decide that a purchase is worth going for? Retailers are doing this all the time. It even gets discussed about the pricing of ebooks. At what price will you not buy the ebook but the hard copy or no book at all? What … Continue reading Price Point
Remakes #2 — Parent Trap
This is one of those remakes where I like both movies. If made to choose, I would rate the Haley Mills original over the Lindsay Lohan remake -- but there are sections of the remake that are definitely better done than the original. Watching the opening credits of the Haley Mills version of The Parent … Continue reading Remakes #2 — Parent Trap
Remakes — #1
I thought I would put together a short piece on a movie remake, and maybe sometime soon put together another comparison of another pair of remakes. Somewhere a few years back we picked up That Darn Cat! on sale on DVD. It was a two-disk set:the 1965 Haley Mills version and the 1997 Christina Ricci … Continue reading Remakes — #1
Plethora of Missions
"Offer them food and they will come" was the joking subtitle to Sunday evenings Ice Cream Social and Missions Fair at Avondale United Methodist Church. Besides the ice cream, the key feature of the evening was a presentation and update by Larry and Kristy Schmitz of their ministry at TESOL (The English-speaking School of Lubumbashi) … Continue reading Plethora of Missions
ToonTown Rewritten Reaches 1000
Today is going to be a short look at Toontown Rewritten. This past weekend they expanded the amount of time everyone could play. If you got a slot or waited in the playline, when your turn came up you got 6 hours instead of 3 hours of play time on Saturday and Sunday. For me … Continue reading ToonTown Rewritten Reaches 1000
Organic Staff Changes
Sunday Avondale United Methodist Church had a double-whammy to its staffing. We had known before service that Michelle Hoitenga was going to be resigning after almost 5 years as a nursery attendant. But what we hadn't expected was the announcement of the resignation of our "new" organist Seth Bott after only 6 months in the … Continue reading Organic Staff Changes
Living life in the Trash Lane
The reemergence of the bicycle as a means of both exercise and transportation in the United States is also being experienced here in Kansas City. Most of the time it is met with honking by motorists at inappropriate and inopportune times (the ones most likely to startle the cyclist into a dangerous swerve that could … Continue reading Living life in the Trash Lane
At The Rainbow 