For about a year, I drew like a maniac and then one day I just stopped.

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Sturgeon’s Law explains everything. Continue reading →

A Buccaneer scholar is someone who takes responsibility for their own education. Continue reading →

After working much too late last night, I sat out on my newly-laid patio in my new Adirondack made from freshly-chopped-down, endangered, rain-forest hardwood wrapped in a scarcely-needed blanket with my daughter on my lap sipping rum and milk respectively. … Continue reading →

I’ve wanted to write a physics engine for years and messing with Squeak made me want to try it in Flex. It wasn’t quite as easy as Squeak but it wasn’t too hard. (It probably needs flash 10 to work) … Continue reading →

Took the kids to the Exploratorium today. It’s currently my favourite museum. Better even than OMSI (although they don’t serve beer at The Exploratorium. How come that hasn’t caught on outside Portland?)  I wish San Jose had a decent museum. … Continue reading →

But the one subject that they really need to teach more of is rhetoric. Continue reading →

Regular readers know that I am a big fan of Better Explained in which Kalid makes mathematical ideas accessible. Today’s installment: Integration is just multiplication when one of the operands is changing. Most people grok integration as area under a … Continue reading →

One problem with bringing up kids in countries where they speak funny is when you get homework like this: Underline the words that have a schwa sound and circle the vowel that makes the sound. A schwa sound? What the … Continue reading →

A degree should be sufficiently difficult to deter all but the brightest of kids. Continue reading →