Tips for Teaching Computer Mouse Skills to Toddlers
Just a few weeks in, I don’t have to supervise or intervene often while Anneliese is playing her “letter games” on Starfall.com. But it took some work to get there, and I learned a few things about teaching computers to toddlers. Here are some tips:
Making the World a Weirder Place
In the spirit of this XKCD comic, I decided to try to make the world a weirder place beginning with my order of humidifier filters from iAllergy.com.
Working with ELCA forms on Linux
If you’re a Linux user, you can do almost everything the ELCA requires you to do – except submit all those pesky required forms, which are in Formatta Filler format. ZootLinux has good, simple instructions on getting Formatta working via wine on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04.
This Week on Twitter
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Down in Dubuque, Phone number fumble
Just a brief note to say that we’re in Dubuque, unpacking, and all is well. We got into town on Friday night and had the truck unloaded in under 90 minutes with the help of Arlyn, Sarah, Chuck, Karen, Ken and our families. Thank you! Jennifer’s Dad and family returned to Arkansas on Saturday, and [...]
Pullin’ up Stakes
Well, according to the calendar it’s moving day, so we’re on our way back up to Dubuque and Wartburg. It’s hard to leave a community you get to know over the course of a year and move someplace different yet again. And even though I’ll know a bunch of people from my own class, I [...]
Saturday Stretch, End-of-internship Edition
‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.’ – Revelation 3.20 (NASB) I want to leave a legacy. How will they remember me? Did I choose to love? Did I point [...]
Saturday Stretch
And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them. – Acts 19.11-12 (ESV)
Saturday Stretch, Tuesday Edition
Okay, okay, I confess: with the holiday weekend, I didn’t get around to writing up the Saturday Stretch until now. So much for weekly disciplines! ‘Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear.’ – Matthew 6.25a [...]
Saturday Stretch
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely,* and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith…” – Hebrews 12.1-2a