We had a meeting yesterday after school outlining the district's plan to trim our school by 12+ teachers (they want to make us a K-5th grade school rather than a K-8th school). One of the teachers asked, "How will this affect some other positions like th… more »

I have some free time so I'm taking an audio recording of one of Pastor Mike's sermons and encoding it as an mp3 again and again, but tweaking the settings each time. I put these sermons on our church website so I do have a practical reason for being so… more »

This American Life, an NPR radio show, has produced some really good coverage of the financial meltdown. The episode entitled Bad Bank is especially informative. The problem is that it is also really depressing. Not because of how the message is presente… more »