http://rreynoso.com/blog writing about work, life, and what-not Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:00:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In defensive discussions justifying my parental rights and educational choices for my children, I often find myself repeating my lists of reasons.  I have 10 solid reasons why we home-school, which I was going to post today, but then I had an internal struggle. What if people (as they sometimes do) ... http://rreynoso.com/blog/sweet-nothings/5-stupid-reasons-not-to-home-school/ Chip Reid and Helen Thomas against Robert Gibbs at the daily press briefing on the "tightly controlled" town hall meeting. Gibbs keeps saying "let's have this discussion after the meeting." Also look at how she grills George Bush and how he answers. Video after the jump. Helen Thomas ... http://rreynoso.com/blog/links-n-junk/prepackaged-town-halls/ I've been flitting around tech stores trying out multi-touch capable laptops searching, hoping, for the perfect Multi-Functional All-Purpose Swiss Army Tech Tool. What I'm hoping is that this tool replaces my leather Bible, works as a note-taking tool, allows me to design anything from articles to websites on the run, ... http://rreynoso.com/blog/design/taplet-pc-dreamin/ Mowing the lawn in the heat is awful, more so when the humidity feels like you're walking through a storm but without the benefit of rain. Mowing the lawn after several days of rain is obnoxious: not only is the grass ridiculously heavy so that your machine keeps stalling, but your ... http://rreynoso.com/blog/rants/rant-on-lawn/ No, I'm not there but I'm following the live feed on The Apple Blog and Gizmodo: 15" Macbook Pro, 7 hour battery life with an SD card slot ($1699). 13" MacBook now MacBookPro, with unibody, SD Card, 8GB of memory, up to 500GB or 256GB SSD drive with backlet keyboard and FW800. ... http://rreynoso.com/blog/design/apple-wwdc-2009/ What is the ultimate destination of your body?(online surveys) http://rreynoso.com/blog/sweet-nothings/your-body-a-poll/ russia. American capitalism is gone with "a freeman's whimper". i don't know what that means but it sounds bad. gotham. five super powers you can have. dc. sotomayor's record on the SCOTUSBlog (HT: jeremy) lawn. gorgeous desktop photos of the most hated weed. art. mail art—I'm tempted but I think I only want to ... http://rreynoso.com/blog/links-n-junk/links-n-junk-spring-is-in-the-air/ MCF's Questions and answers here and my answers after the jump. 1) If you've seen Terminator Salvation, what was your favorite homage/reference to the previous films? I pretty much liked all of them. Guns and Roses had me smiling but I was blown away by another scene that I won't say. in ... http://rreynoso.com/blog/sweet-nothings/mcfs-another-poll-of-randomosity/ This seems to be Kid week. We've done two interview with Josias (link here) and we figured we would do one this year, now that he's in first grade. What is your favorite Song? Wizards of Winter. Sy how old are you? Seven…let's just say eight because this year I will be eight. How old ... http://rreynoso.com/blog/kids/interview-with-sy-2009/ We did an interview with Elayna a year ago. Now that she's reached the ripe age of 4, we figured to ask her some of the questions again. Elayna how old are you? four How old is Mommy? I don't know. What is your favorite food? Pizza and Pasta and Spaghetti (truth about one, dead up ... http://rreynoso.com/blog/kids/interview-with-elayna-2009/