Category: miscellaneous
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90 second book review: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An oldie but a goodie this week. This was another one that was on my “to read” list that made it’s way on to “to buy” list as a result of a quarterly trip to Half Price Books and then on to my “reading now” list as I was looking at my stack before a…
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Adventure Time x Mad Max
As a fan of both this is pure genius.
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Chatting with Mason about Home Education
Mason and I are going to give a go at a weekly podcast just chatting about the last / next week of home education. It’s mostly just to give us an anchor, which is code for saying I am not sure that anyone else will find this useful or interesting. But here is the first…
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90 second book review: The Obstacle is the Way
I first heard of Stoic philosophy a little over a year ago. It immediately appealed to me (another book I just started would say that was more intuition than reasoning, but that review will come later) and I downloaded a copy of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (the link is to the translation that everyone says you should…
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CDG is finally not a nightmare
After 15 years of flying through CDG in Paris and bitching about it almost every time, I have to give them credit: I was able to get off my regional connection, go through passport control, take a bus, NOT have to go through security a second time and get to my gate in less than…
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BMW Bikes
Nur Auf Deutschland
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90 second book review: The Market for Liberty
I finished reading The Market for Liberty, by Morris and Linda Tannehill a few days ago on my Kindle (available as a free epub and PDF at the previous link). This was another one of the suggestions I took away from a conversation or session at Porcfest. Overall it was a quick and easy read…
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Random pic outside a grocery store in Germany
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Reddit proves the stoics right
This post on Reddit is exactly why the stoic practice of recognizing your own mortality is so important. You don’t need to be dying (even though we all are) to live with this perspective.