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P90X Works – Even if it is a Bunch of Hyped up NonsenseP90X Sí funciona – Aún cuando es un bonche de disparates promocionados

Posted 04 November 2010 | By | Categories: Reviews | 17 Comments

     Up to now I’ve refrained from writing any sort of review on P90X.  The fact is that so few people actually finish the complete program that I didn’t want to give it glowing reviews just to see people spend all that money and then leave the DVD’s to gather dust.  But perhaps I haven’t given my fellow [...]

5 Reasons American Girl Dolls are Awesome and 1 Reason they Aren’t5 Razones por las que las muñecas de Niñas Americanas son fabulosas y 1 razón por la que no lo son

Posted 12 September 2010 | By | Categories: Reviews | 11 Comments

Mothers and daughters love American Girl Dolls.  I know they do because I’ve heard rave reviews about them from parents and heard confirmation of it from little girls.  I wrote a critical post about a year ago about a particular American Doll character that had what was, in my opinion, a terribly sexist back story.  I still [...]

Poetry for Young PeoplePoesía para gente joven

Posted 23 August 2010 | By | Categories: Reviews | 6 Comments

    Poetry, for me, isn’t something I go out of my way to read.  It’s enigmatic where I prefer bluntness – prose.  I don’t like to guess at the meaning of phrases.  My favorite author is Ernest Hemingway whose writing is famously direct.  However, my resistance to it notwithstanding, poetry is something with which we should [...]

Visual Math for Kids: A Collection of Children’s BooksMatemáticas visualizadas para niños: Una colección de libros infantiles

Posted 18 July 2010 | By | Categories: Reviews | 3 Comments

   Math doesn’t have to be daily lessons of worksheets, word problems, and scratch paper.  Math can be fun.  Yes, I know that sounds like a third grade teacher desperately trying to convince her students that they aren’t in a math class.  The truth is though that Greg Tang has written a series of children’s [...]

Singapore Math: a Better MethodSingapore Math: un mejor método

Posted 07 July 2010 | By | Categories: Reviews | 17 Comments

This photo shows the Saxon math student workbook (first half of grade 2) stacked on top of the teacher’s guide for the whole year compared to both the student textbook and workbook for Singapore math 2A.  You can see, in visual format, just how different they are.        I have finally found a math curriculum my boys [...]

Disposable vs. Cloth Diapers: Cost Effectiveness and Environmental ImpactPañales desechables contra pañales de tela: Economía e impacto ambiental

Posted 05 July 2010 | By | Categories: Reviews | 12 Comments

   My boys are 7 and 6, and that means we are years removed from having to worry about diapers.  However, I remember the cost and hassle of buying and running out of them.  Most parents use disposable diapers because they’re hassle free; we used them for that reason too.  I never even considered going the [...]

I Got an iPod Touch and now I’m ConfusedConseguí un iPod Touch y ahora me encuentro confundido

Posted 23 June 2010 | By | Categories: Reviews | 24 Comments

A friend of mine sent me an iPod Touch for my birthday last week.  Do you know what I’ve done with it so far?  I added a song to it (yes, just one – and it’s a Dolly Parton song at that), used it to time 55 minutes on a spatchcocked chicken (spatchcock is indeed [...]

Starbucks VIA Tastes Okay, but It’s Still A Rip-OffStarbucks VIA sabe bien, pero sigue siendo un robo

Posted 19 May 2010 | By | Categories: Reviews | 10 Comments

  Coffee isn’t really my thing.  I drink one cup per day at the most and sometimes just 2 or 3 per week.  I’m the wrong guy to ask when it comes to the subtle textures and aromas of coffee.  I do however know what good coffee tastes like and what bad coffee tastes like.  Most [...]

I Got a Kindle and I Love itMe compré un Kindle y me encanta

Posted 26 April 2010 | By | Categories: Reviews | 14 Comments

   I bought myself a Kindle a while ago and it’s been a fantastic, if not completely necessary, investment for me.  “Why?” you ask?  Well, simply put, because I’m not the sort of person who cares for having books lying around that I never look at again after they’re read.  Furthermore, I do a lot [...]

Sugar Milk: Not a Book ReviewSugar Milk: No es una reseña del libro

Posted 17 April 2010 | By | Categories: Reviews | 7 Comments

   I don’t do book reviews.  I read books.  I either like them or I don’t and I don’t have the energy to over analyze them.  Writing is art and if you think about it too much the magic disappears.  I read a book last week called The Road by, Cormac McCarthy.  The book was [...]

2008 Toyota Highlander Rip-OffLa estafa del Highlander de Toyota del 2008

Posted 15 April 2010 | By | Categories: Reviews | 13 Comments

  This story has a happy ending.  Read the update at the bottom for the conclusion.     The recall was one thing.  I could deal with that because Toyota behaved professionally.  However, this week has been a different story as the service department at my Toyota dealership has decided to show themselves for the stereotype [...]