postcards from a nut
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Make your own art! #cupcake #artwalk
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Friday was also a happy day. #latergram
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G&T + A/C = Summer
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My new book of cartoons “You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack” is out now. Details are here.
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“ I’m always glad to see a null finding reported, so I liked this paper by Robert Fairlie and Jonathan Robinson about what happened when they gave computers to randomly selected California schoolkids whose families had no computer at home. The short answer is nothing.
The slightly longer answer is that the kids reported an almost 50 percent increase in time spent using a computer, with the time divided between doing homework, playing games, and social network. But there was no improvement in academic achievement or attendance or anything else. There wasn’t even an improvement in computer skills. At the same time, there was no negative impact either. The access to extra computer games didn’t reduce total time spent on homework or lead to any declines in anything. They broke it down by a few demographic subgroups and didn’t find anything there either. It’s just a huge nada. Nothing happening.
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The most perfect description of Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch’s voice (with sample audio):
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Just a heads-up notice
I’m taking up real blogging again. Tumblr will remain a commonplace book; twitter will have my “pearls” of “wisdom.”
Visit me: lettersfromanut.blogspot.com
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“Today’s Millennial generation is being fed the message that if they don’t do something extraordinary in this life they are wasting their gifts and potential. The sad result is that many young adults feel ashamed if they “settle” into ordinary jobs, get married early and start families, live in small towns, or as 1 Thess 4:11 says, “aspire to live quietly, and to mind [their] affairs, and to work with [their] hands.” For too many Millennials their greatest fear in this life is being an ordinary person with a non-glamorous job, living in the suburbs, and having nothing spectacular to boast about. …
Maybe Christians are simply to pursue living well and invite others to do so according to how God has ordered the universe. An emphasis on human flourishing, ours and others, becomes important because it characterizes by a holistic concern for the spiritual, moral, physical, economic, material, political, psychological, and social context necessary for human beings to live according to their design. What if youth and youth adults were simply encouraged live in pursuit of wisdom, knowledge, understanding, education, wonder, beauty, glory, creativity, and worship in a world marred by sin, as Abraham Kuyper encourages in the book Wisdom and Wonder. No shame, no pressure to be awesome, no expectations of fame but simply following the call to be men and women of virtue and inviting their friends and neighbors to do the same in every area of life”— This guy makes some excellent points. (HT James Zekveld) -
“How time does fly. If this present life were all that we had, the quick passage of time would be most depressing. How glad I am that we are getting closer to the ‘beginning of eternity with Him’ rather than to the ‘end of life.” —Edith Schaeffer, in With Love, Edith
{Quoted by Mrs. Poff}
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When I start feeling like summer is coming and suddenly the weather is freezing again
