Me and my little future geek.

I have begun thinking that as a geek I have a certain reputation that I must uphold in relation to raising my children. I have been thinking about my children's education. Although I know that studies have been done about children who learn a specialized skill at an early age excel at it (i.e. chess), but I was considering what I would like my children to learn and hopefully love as they grow older. One of my main passions as I was growing up was computers and as such I am devoted to learning as much as I can about them. I was considering teaching my children about the sciences with chemistry in particular. I was wondering if anybody out there had ideas that my three year old might grasp and enjoy at the same time. I know that the biggest issue at this age is not necessarily teaching them the skills, but instead instilling a love of the subject. I'm not asking anybody to do homework for me but instead I was hoping to learn from peoples experiences. The first thing I'm going to do is make some non-Newtonian fluid and let her play with it and see how she reacts between it and water.

Thoughts and frustrations

It seems to me that no matter how hard I try I have great difficulty to finding time to do the things I want to do.  One of my favourite discoveries so far has been the Evernote App (Which you can find here: http://evernote.com/evernote/).  I can't tell  you how excited I am when I'm using this app.  The ability to record interesting websites and save documents which are instantly synced between my home computer and my phone is awesome!!  I only wish they had a version for Linux so that I could bounce things between all of my systems.

On another front there are some truly awesome developing technology coming to the forefront of our society.  Flexible screens, *legal* self driving cars.  I can't wait for the next 10 years when it come to technology.  I constantly hear the fear of the future coming from many of those around me and I'm astounded that they are so worried.  Yes things might go horribly wrong but that's how it always is.  Which is worse dying in a zombie apocalypse or just getting hit by a car?  Either way dead is dead you might as well live in the moment, do what you enjoy, and forget about everything else.

Finally a funny cat gif from imgur.com http://i.imgur.com/RcOgg.gif