Laureen’s 40th birthday is coming up soon, so we’re approaching that question once again of “what are we going to do when we’ve grown up?” Right now, the answer for me is “genealogy”. For whatever reason, a rash of deaths and other related matters have put something on my conscience to try and record what …
Author Archives: lopey
Some Changes Coming
I’m starting a new project on this site, one that’s closer to the original idea I had when I chose the site’s name. This may mean a bit less personal opinion blogging, but… If I had to choose one reason why I wanted A Learning Experience as a domain, it would have been, “because I …
Deconstructing religious interpretation
The context for this post has been brewing for quite some time. It came about because I have been spending time researching arguments about Islam to investigate some claims made about that particular religion (see this, for instance). One of the concepts that people who don’t understand Islam is the notion of taqiyya. Simply put, …
Too Much Information
I’m not usually one given to nostalgia of a simpler time and place. This is our world; it’s big. It’s complex. It’s there. We deal with it, usually by carving out a niche, staying there while staying away from the ugliness that might be out there. We can visit those parts of the world through …
Review: Land of the Dinosaurs
I would like to start out by saying I’m conflicted. The desire to be nice and constructive is really fighting the desire to go all negative on this. It’s a battle where I don’t think I can find a middle ground, because the subject deserves both treatments almost equally. Laureen and I were able to …
How I spent my summer, by Jacob
Actually, I’ll tell Jacob’s tale of travels afar. Some background: my dad works for American Airlines. This allows us some prvileges that come with being related to an employee of an airline, namely flying “cheaply”. I always have to qualify it when I talk about it, because while the employee and his immediate family get …
Gallery links
Quick note: I had to explode the galleries of photos and put them back together again because the old gallery software I was using was mumble mumble vulnerable mumble security pants. http://gallery.alearningexperience.com is the base, but any prior links may have been obliterated because of category/numbering changes. If I find them, I’ll fix them. UPDATE: …
What Bothers Me
I’ve got about fifteen things churning in the back of my head, so you may see a bit more of my writing than my typical glacial pace. The first thing is this article from The Boston Globe talking about how we don’t really care about facts anymore, especially in political discourse. The reason why it …
Annual Jammy Pics
I guess this is a tradition.
Showtime for Jessie
This requires a bit of explanation, so… Jessie is in Little Gym’s dance class, which is a mixture of ballet and tap and gymnastic movement. In order to understand what it was supposed to be, the teachers sent links to the videos. Thus, we have Jessie practicing: Then came the actual show day. This is …