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Reading wise books can make you wise. Reading stupid books will rather quickly make you stupid. Reading exciting books won’t make you an exciting person, though. It will make you dull. And watching sexy movies won’t make you sexy. That’s the difference between spiritual qualities (wisdom) and sensual qualities (excitement).

Went to The Richmond Pinball Collective today. A month long family pass is only sixty USD. That’s a lot of pinball for very, very little money. It’s run by a bunch of volunteer pinball enthusiasts.

I just saw that Jason Perry is doing a workshop called “Blending Faith and Preparedness In Safety Training” in Atlanta next month. Read more about it here. I’ve been to one of Jason’s day long safety training workshops and it was easily the best workshop of any kind I’ve attended in nineteen years as aContinue reading “For Everyone Doing ACCS Atlanta Next Month”

“You all have made it to the end of another school year, and I want you to know: I have seen your sacrifices. I have not seen all of your sacrifices, but I have seen some of them. I have not seen all of your sacrifices because you are virtuous men and women, which means you doContinue reading “What Teachers Need To Hear From Administrators At The End Of The Year”

When you find someone on social media who uses TED Talk/LinkedIn jargon to talk about leadership, diversity, teamwork, or whatever, drop a link to this McSweeney’s article in the comments section…

Scenario One. Man: The reservation is under the name O’Leary for 7:30. Maître d: Your table is actually not going to be ready until 7:45. Man: That’s fine. Maître d: Actually, it’s going to be 8:00. Man: 8:00? Maître d: Actually, 9:30. Man: What? Maître d: I’m sorry, the 9:30 table is already booked, butContinue reading “If Restaurants Were Run As Badly As Airlines”

Dad: It’s been a while since we had a family meeting and I thought it would be helpful for us to talk about how things are going. If you ask me, things are going well. Really well. The raise I got in November has enabled us to purchase a new car, buy a small vacationContinue reading “For All Of Us, Really”