SQJ Taipei

Many of you who have visited us have been to the top of Taipei 101. The views are amazing… but one of the most interesting things you can see at the top is the 730 ton tuned mass damper which provides stability during high winds or earthquakes. Some of you who have visited are physics [...]

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How would your kids like to live in a house filled with puzzles, contraptions, and secret compartments which are just built into the house itself?
In our case… it wouldn’t just be my kids, but my kids’ dad too!
This article is about such a house. The parents were remodeling and asked the design firm to be [...]

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Although I’m old enough to feel old sometimes… like yesterday (after hoops and squash on Sunday)… and today (after 40k on the bike on Monday - with a cat)… I’m not probably old enough to know for sure that Ravi Zacharias is right about The Dying Art of Thinking, although I suspect that he is.
A [...]

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This was a good book. I’ve had an interest in the Normandy campaign for years, but still learned some from this book. What was most valuable for me, though, was the coverage of the Italy campaign and the German/Soviet front.
The book was edited by Tony Hall and he compiled a very nice group of authors [...]

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Patrick Cowsill has a really interesting post about POWs in Taiwan during WWII. If you remember… Taiwan was under Japanese control until the end of WWII… so the POWs were Allied forces.
Patrick’s grandfather served in the Pacific and writes…
Actually, my grandpa hated the war; he rarely talked about it.
Same with my grandfather, who also served [...]

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In keeping with the spirit of the previous post… little to no commentary… here’s a good clip about one homeschooling family…
very well done
One of my favorite parts is when the homeschooling mom says that people often ask her how she knows if her kids are learning or not… her answer? I’m with them 24/7 so [...]

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It is only one of the many benefits of homeschooling…
My personal favorite homeschool focused blog is Why Homeschool written by Henry and Janine Cate.
Henry has a nice post up today that is a good reminder of the freedom homeschooling can bring…
Henry says…
One of the more important reasons is homeschooling gives families greater freedom. This freedom [...]

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I haven’t heard much about this book yet… The Shack … but it sounds like it is getting pretty popular. It is currently #10 on Amazon.com of ALL books.
When a Christian book gets to be that popular… alarms should be sounding all over the place… see The Prayer of Jabez and Left Behind for examples.
I [...]

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Thanks to Wayne at ekklisia for linking to What Kind of Resurrection? on Dr. Darrell Bock’s blog.
Dr. Bock is one of the main speakers at the Taiwan Missionary Fellowship 2008 Summer Conference.
Although I’ve done some work on the TMF website and currently sit on the administrative committee, I didn’t know Dr. Bock had a blog.
Thanks [...]

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Not an insult… far from it.
I’ve been trying to get through about a million unread items in my feedreader and kept saving Sowell’s articles for later because they are almost always good and thought provoking and I wanted to make sure I had time for them.
The result?
If I clicked “share” on all of them (in [...]

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