Wandering Road

Somebody created two flow charts explaining the scientific method and the faith method.  I thought it was very funny!  And very true when you look at some of the fundamentalist religions.  I recently read something about a representative in Alabama or Georgia declaring that the earth did not revolve around the sun.  I think we […]

This is a great story of how some brave passengers and flight crew took down a man who was hijacking an airplane.  Here’s a snippet:

Speaking to the gunman during the hijacking, the pilot realized the man did not speak French. So he used the plane’s public address system to warn the passengers in French of […]

(Note: If you read my blog, then you most likely read my husband’s blog, and thus know that we are starting the adoption process.  So I’ll save myself from typing and skip making that post myself.)
I recently came across a great site for parents called Parent Hacks.  I like to think of it as LifeHacker […]

I just learned through Lifehacker that the NPR program “Fresh Air” is now available through podcast.  I am so excited!  I love “Fresh Air”.  It is my favorite NPR program.  Unfortunately, I rarely get to listen to it since it is on between 11 and 12 here in Dallas.  Now I’ll get to hear it […]

A very interesting essay in The Guardian by a woman who suffers from body integrity identity disorder or BIID.  I’ve heard of BIID before.  It is when a person has a desire to remove one or more healthy limbs from their body.  They feel that the “real” them is a person without an arm or […]

Another free software recommendation courtesy of Lifehacker.  Launchy is a launcher app for Windows.  You can think of it as an alternative to using your start menu or desktop icons.  I don’t know about you, but my start menu keeps growing larger and larger.  I try to control this and organize it into a folder […]

I recently discovered the free app KeePass through Lifehacker. KeePass is used to help manage all your various login ids and passwords. If you are like me, you have many different ids and passwords for countless websites. This site requires your id is an email address, this site requires your id is […]