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I made some paska bread this week as it’s Easter Weekend. As per usual it was delicious. Growing up we ate Paska for the week before and after Easter every year. We’d slather it with paska spread and it was like eating dessert for breakfast. It’s a delicious filling Ukranian bread which here in BC […]
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Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein My rating: 5 of 5 stars Starship Troopers is, in my opinion, one of the three best military sci-fi novels ever written. It shares that distinction with Ender’s Game and Old Man’s war. It’s also a good primer on, in the books own words, “moral philosophy”. Though it’s main […]
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The Forever War by Joe Haldeman My rating: 2 of 5 stars The Forever War may be a Sci-Fi classic but it shouldn’t be. Throughout the book we follow the main character as he goes through a series of unconnected scenes, like a bad documentary. Seeing a bit of everything the author imagines about the […]
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Welcome to education. I’m not going to say that you are potential teachers, because many of you will not pursue that as your careers. You are however educators. I once thought that was a buzzword but it means something very specific. You are embarking on a career in education. That might be teaching at the […]
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“Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don’t ever forget that! And don’t say “I’ll never be good”. You can become better! and one day you’ll wake up and you’ll find out how good you actually became.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Today I read a list of “25 of the Most Important Things a Dad Can Teach His Kids“. I don’t agree with them all, but number one was in my opinion the most important thing you can teach. “ Winning is fun, but it teaches you nothing. Failure is the best teacher in the world. […]
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For the Win by Cory Doctorow My rating: 3 of 5 stars While not as good as Little Brother I enjoyed this book. Doctorow has somehow managed to put together MMOs with an easy to understand overview of unions and global economics. Along the way he explains the basis of why economies collapse, what inflation […]
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The Last Colony by John Scalzi My rating: 5 of 5 stars A brilliant novel. The perfect way to wrap up the trilogy (yes, I know it continues, but it was originally the end of the trilogy). Scalzi has the perfect combination of military sci-fi mixed with bits of humor, political maneuvering, and all set […]