I heard about this story on the homeschooling forums that I visit. This woman seems to think that what I do all day every day isn’t very valuable and is only satisfying to those who aren’t very smart.

How to Raise Kids: Stay Home or Go to Work?

Seems like she doesn’t really get it.

New species are frequently discovered as we explore the parts of the planet more thoroughly. New sealife seem to be frequently found as we dive deeper and deeper into the world’s oceans.

That said, this is one funny looking crustacean. Scientists Discover ‘Hairy Lobster’ in Deepest Pacific:

God is nothing if not imaginative.

Every year Apple Computer holds a week-long event known as the Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC). This is a conference specifically for Mac developers. I have only been to one. That was in 1995. The only thing I remember distinctly was that during those years it almost always fell such that attendees had to fly to the Bay Area on the evening of Mother’s Day in mid-May. Not a popular time to be leaving on business. I suffered the consequences the year I went.

Now, I am in a position such that I’m expected to go this year. I have been feeling lucky that for the past several years, the event has been in June. I figured I had nothing to worry about.

Today, the dates for this year’s conference were announced. Apple has decided to move it later in the summer. This year it will take place August 7-11.

Stefanie and I were married on August 11.

Pray for me.

I’ve been a Seahawks fan since the Dave Kreig and Steve Largent days of the mid-80s. It was painful to watch them through the 90s and in the pre-Holmgren days. Last year was the beginning of a payoff for all of that suffering, though. To have actually made it to the big game was the first step.

This was the next: MVP agrees to 8-year deal

As far as I can tell, they’ve kept the core of this team together: Hasselbeck, Alexander, Jones, Hutchinson, Jackson, Engram on the offense and Winstrom, Fischer, Bernard, Tatupu, Hill, Trufant on the defense.

It sure looks like they have a good shot at avoiding the usual Super Bowl loser slump. Here’s hoping I’m watching them again next February.

I knew that my teachers in high school and professors in college had different political leanings than I did. I knew most of them voted for Carter, Mondale, and Dukakis. I also believed it had become much worse since I graduated. I had no idea.

Michelle Malkin (another favorite blog) reports on this story about a high school teacher who goes way over the line. It’s bad enough that this fellow clearly has no clue how the world works or how political systems treat their citizens, but he also is unwilling to be swayed by an innocent question.

People often ask, “Won’t David be missing out by not going to school?” I guess he will. He’ll get to miss being the target of propaganda. It’s stuff like this that convinces us that David is much better off being homeschooled.