Before you Begin – A Brief History As sad as this is, and as many countless hours as I’ve wasted on this that I’ll never get back, I’ve resolved there is no way to make Roblox work in Ubuntu / linux – not even running in a VM on Ubuntu. If you want to read more about the vm journey,…
Category: Parenting
Making Roblox Work on Ubuntu in Windows 7 on Virtual Box
EDIT: January 10, 2021 – for the most recent updates on this topic, see this post IMPORTANT! THIS BLOG POST IS BEING TESTED NOW AND NEEDS SOME WORK. I EXPECT TO UPDATE / IMPROVE THIS AT LEAST ONE MORE TIME. IT’S HERE JUST FOR TESTING PURPOSES. NOTE ALSO THAT AS OF TODAY, EVEN IF YOU GET THIS ALL DONE YOU…
Should Yoga be Taught in BC Public Schools?
UPDATES: RESPONSES below added The following is a real dialogue between a British Columbia parent who didn’t like the idea of their child doing yoga without their permission in what they thought was a secular school. Note that the parent received no further communication after sending their time-consuming response below: Original Email written by Teacher to Parent Mrs.…
The Most Relevant Documentary of Our Age
I’ve seen a lot of documentaries, a lot of conspiracies, a lot of interesting things. Nothing comes close to the importance and relevance of this one.
Question the Magic (QTM): Hello Barbie
Thanks to my usual homeboys for forwarding this one. It’s simply…. MAGIC! HELLO BARBIE which costs a mere… oh…. HUNDRED BUCKS, will also, for that small fee, spy on your children (and you as a bonus) and report its findings to an unidentified source for not-fully-disclosed purposes. The Magic Your kid speaks to Barbie and Barbie comes back with one…
Pornography is Worse than Cancer
I know the title of this blog post is pretty strong, but it’s the truth. As I get older the burning desire inside of me for truth has been further fueled. At about the age of 11 I had my first exposure to pornography when I found a magazine under a bush near my house. The very depths of my…
McDonalds Food in Your Stomach: Pure Nastiness
If you regularly go to McDonalds, you may change your habit if you watch this video simulating a cheeseburger in stomache acid. Gross!! However, it should be stated in fairness to any company that the same results may occur if you put *any* food into straight hydrocloric acid – I don’t know. Since I haven’t done this test with a…
Overcoming the ‘spirit of christmas’ with the Spirit of Christ: Part 6 in a Series: Dealing With Pressure to Buy Gifts
If you haven’t been following the series, it started a while back now and the goal here is to shoot some ‘sacred cows’ and see if the foundation we are building on is solid, or one of ‘shaky foundations’. Here are some quick links to the series: Part 1: Roots Part 2: Tree vs Vine Part 3: Santa Part 4:…
Overcoming the ‘spirit of christmas’ with the Spirit of Christ: Part 5 in a Series: Practical Alternatives to Christmas traditions
If you haven’t been following this series, here is a quick link list to the previous articles so you can catch up: Part 1: The roots Part 2: Christmas tree versus Vine Part 3: Santa Part 4: To Pull your kid from school or not And that brings us to Part 5. We’ve established that there are good grounds to…
Overcoming the ‘spirit of christmas’ with the Spirit of Christ: Part 4 in a Series: To Pull Your Child from School or Not
Well, Christmas 2015 is now behind us. Before it gets too far behind us, let’s keep this series going so that we are better prepared next year instead of the annual tradition of scrambling trying to figure out what position to take at the end of November or early December. Here is a quick link list to the previous parts…