by Phil Houseal | May 25, 2017 | All Articles, Education, Events
May 25, 2017–I spent the last week watching a thousand students take a test. A field test. Because the tests took place in the middle of a field on a working ranch near Willow City, Texas. It wasn’t a paper and pencil kind of test, although hours of calculation were...
by Phil Houseal | May 24, 2017 | All Articles, Philosophy
May 24, 2017–When is enough enough? I’ve been trying to quantify the exponential futility of doing more. One easy way to visualize this is knot tying. If the sole function of making a knot was to, say, fasten one object to another, we could achieve the goal in many...
by Phil Houseal | May 18, 2017 | All Articles, Education, People of the Hill Country, Philosophy
May 17, 2017–I always wanted to build a bonsai tree. So when Dietert Club Ed offered a class, I signed up. Nine other wannabe tree makers shared my interest. We were a diverse group, with several retirees, a couple of younger ladies, and one millennial. Instructor...
by Phil Houseal | May 11, 2017 | All Articles, Events, People of the Hill Country, Philosophy
May 10, 2017–Anyone who has ever owned a Volkswagen Beetle will understand. My wife does. She owned an early 1970s model, robin’s egg blue convertible. Cute, affordable, and got good mileage. But when she started dating this homeless farm boy musician, something...
by Phil Houseal | May 4, 2017 | All Articles, Venue
May 3, 2017–Back in the dark ages of computing, when screens were black, letters were green, and images were created using backslashes, asterisks, and parentheses, we nerds played “escape” games. Those early versions were crude, with simple dialogue and limited...
