Faith and Religion, Parenting

The Battle of Disciples of Christ as Parents of Children in a New Age Education System

Are you a parent of a kid in a ‘secular’ school and find that your spirit is grieved by stuff that’s happening?  You are not alone.  I also am battling this and far, far sooner than I had expected. First, a quick background: I’m a disciple of Jesus the Christ of Nazereth, aka ‘a Christian’.  I refrain from using the…

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Business, Technology

Why Yelp is No So Good

Yes, I did intend to write ‘no so good’.  I have an accent so lay off, cut me some slack and throw a dog a bone. I have meaning to post this for a long time and failed but recently there was some article about how Yelp was found to be scammy in the way it deals with reviews, so…

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Business, Technology

Telus: You Call That Tech Support?

I just had to share my horrific Telus internet tech support story.  It was so frustrating that it is interesting.  Because they have said they will be giving me a couple of months free internet, I’m not going to include a few other stories that surrounded this one, but it’s wrong for me not to share at least this one. …

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Amateur Radio

Morse Code in Music

As a licensed and active amateur radio operator, I started learning morse code a few months back.  My reasoning is that it’s like audible brail – why would I not want to learn that?  If I was fluent at it I could communicate effectively without words… Anyway, my buddy Joe found this video on youtube which actually caught me off…

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Life Skills, Pipes

The Secrets of Pipe Smoking

It was hard to come up with a title for this.  Here are some ideas I toyed with: Why Smoking a Pipe Makes You Cooler Why Losers Don’t Smoke Pipes If You Want to be 79% More Classy, Smoke a Pipe. Why your Grandpa Smoked a Pipe and Why He was Cooler Than You Why Pipe Smoke Smells Awesome and…

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