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The trials and tribulations of painting a house.

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 Ugh!  It's been a year since Typhoon Mawar and I'm finally getting around to painting the house.  The trials of home ownership.  The paint was fine for the last 10 years, but the typhoon stripped the antifungals and now we're left with stains upon stains.  Not only that, much of the paint was stripped and left an unsightly mess.   Home maintenance here I come! Fortunately, the inside of the house is in much better shape.  The wall paper is intact.  The oven still works, the water heater is fine, and thank God the AC is still working.  I don't know what I would do if I had to replace the AC units and paint the house.  I used to laugh at my dad when he had to tackle these problems, now it's my turn.  Yes, I guess it's my turn to do the Dad thing. Being in the Army and with deployable units did not prepare me for home ownership.  I stayed in apartments complexes with property managers.  If I was away for a few months, I'd just notify them.  My bills were autom
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Sal Khan

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  This was a very interesting deep dive into the education system as we know it today.  The Prussian model of education is responsible for the stratification of students by ages and the separation of knowledge into descrete subject areas.  It was a way to democratize education but a the same time stifled creativity.  Sal Khan wants us to get away from this Prussian model of education.  That model was fine for the transition from an agrarian economy to an industrial society but no longer fits for needs of a 21st computer based economy.  It's funny that he draws his inspiration from a SciFi book series, Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.  I am reminded of how many of today's inventions were inspired by Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry.  That is the society that Khan  wants to prepare us for, a technological based society where creativity is valued more than regimented knowledge.   This was an inspirational story about the founding of Khan Academy and highlights how creativity and technolo
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