101 Secrets A Good Dad Knows

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My son-in-law loved it

Great for Moms, Too!!!

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I'm a new dad.

A perfect gift for a new dad!

101 Secrets A Good Dad Knows
Walter Browder , and Sue Ellin Browder
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
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Dads have a special way of relating to children. They tend to rough-house and tease children more than moms do. It is usually a father who teaches a child how to shoot a free throw, catch a frog, or fix a broken bicycle chain. Knowing how to do these things raises a child's self-esteem, increases self-confidence, and fosters self-reliance because they expand a child's ability to cope with and understand the world.

Each of the 101 secrets in this wonderful gift book is explained in short descriptions accompanied by a drawing and a fact or tip. Many of these skills involve a simple secret to do them successfully. Knowing these secrets will enable any dad to look like a hero to his children.

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How to fly a kite
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How to skip a rock
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"The perfect gift for any father, grandfather, or mother who wants to teach children skills that will increase self confidence, raise self-esteem, and foster self-reliance." - Nashville Lifestyles

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My son-in-law loved it.......2006-06-26

I bought this for my son-in-law who is a new father, and he loved it. It's a very light read and fun to go thru.

Great for Moms, Too!!! .......2005-11-14

We picked this book up at the bookstore one day as an afterthought on our way out...and WE LOVE IT! It is full of interesting and useful techniques, tips, and tricks for a wide variety of skills. This book is marketed for dads, but I guarantee you will love it if you are a mom, too. Each "how to" is succintly explained in 1-2 short pages, often with illustrations and perfect for busy parents on the go. Click the picture of the cover above and take a look at the table of contents for this book. You'll find yourself interested in learning many of the skills! Absolutely one of our favorite parenting books to date!

Worth buying and reading..........2005-08-26

After reading this book, I found some of the 101 secrets to outstanding and others to be unuseful. However, the ones that were outstanding really have really made an impression on my 2 yr old and 4 yr old.

I'd suggest purchasing this book. It's an easy read.

I'm a new dad........2005-08-02

Great read for the new dad or the old dad. Have fun sharing the wisdom of our elders.

A perfect gift for a new dad!.......2004-03-10

I love this book! I give it to every friend of mine who is becoming a father for the first time and I've seen this book make a man cry! It's a wonderful sweet book that makes a great gift. I highly recommend it.

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101 Secrets A Good Dad Knows

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Dad stuff. (Hot! Products).(101 Secrets a Good Dad Knows; The Home Schooling Father)(Book Review): An article from: Practical Homeschooling

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Dad stuff. (Hot! Products).(101 Secrets a Good Dad Knows; The Home Schooling Father)(Book Review): An article from: Practical Homeschooling
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The Silence Became Twice as Silent.

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SLIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT is a compilation of 564 student bloopers assembled over 40 years of college English teaching by now-retired Professor William Betts. The book is very neatly organized into 19 chapters, each introduced by one or more epigraphs. Imaginative illustrations add to the fun. In black-and-white, on top-quality paper.

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The Silence Became Twice as Silent........2003-11-27

There are over 500 student bloopers collected in this little gem of a book. About half are just unbelievably funny, while most of the rest are forgettable, somewhat amusing blunders. This book definitely has it's charm, and is neatly categorized into types of errors. My favorite two chapters are 'Pure Poetry' (example: "The grinding teeth of society cut into his rationale.") and 'Long Live Mrs. Malaprop', which contains these two among other wonders of the written word: "I came to college to get a more contraceptive view of life.", and "He was jewish, and was not circumlocucious till he was twelve."

There are several books of this genre, and I think the best currently in print is "Non Campus Mentis: World History According to College Students," which I believe has the most amazing collection of writing seen in a university since Pedro Carolino ("English as She is Spoke") taught in Portugal. Nevertheless, a delightful collection, that is to be read slowly to savor.

Slips of laughter.......2002-10-02

I found this an uproarously funny collection of writng bloopers. Anyone who has a sense of humor, be it latent warped will chuckle, laugh out loud and remember similarities from his English Composition days. The comments from the Professor in the margin are perfection. I can almost visualize him in the wee hours of the morning grading such "slips" and adding his humorous remarks. For an example, "The odor of smoke could be smelt on my hands." The Professor's margin comment is " It could have been herring." Another favorite is, "Even though I set and think, My hopes for answers sink and sink. So with the hour drawing neigh I'll take my "F" And say good-bye." Dr. Betts' marginal comment is "The grade is "F", be not distraught. At least you didn't get a nought."

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Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman's unique personality and how that personality has been at turns a driving force and a drawback in terms of the movement's overall success. Free as in Freedom examines one man's 20-year attempt to codify and communicate the ethics of 1970s era "hacking" culture in such a way that later generations might easily share and build upon the knowledge of their computing forebears. The book documents Stallman's personal evolution from teenage misfit to prescient adult hacker to political leader and examines how that evolution has shaped the free software movement. Like Alan Greenspan in the financial sector, Richard Stallman has assumed the role of tribal elder within the hacking community, a community that bills itself as anarchic and averse to central leadership or authority. How did this paradox come about? Free as in Freedom provides an answer. It also looks at how the latest twists and turns in the software marketplace have diminished Stallman's leadership role in some areas while augmenting it in others. Finally, Free as in Freedom examines both Stallman and the free software movement from historical viewpoint. Will future generations see Stallman as a genius or crackpot? The answer to that question depends partly on which side of the free software debate the reader currently stands and partly upon the reader's own outlook for the future. 100 years from now, when terms such as "computer," "operating system" and perhaps even "software" itself seem hopelessly quaint, will Richard Stallman's particular vision of freedom still resonate, or will it have taken its place alongside other utopian concepts on the 'ash-heap of history?'

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Free/Open/Proprietary Software vs Hardware.......2007-08-21

Let me just say that RMS and myself differ widely on many issues. I initially got this book from my local libary so I could gain insight into RMS's mind and determine why "free software" is so important.

I came away with a better understanding based on his childhood thru college years. It seems to me that his father played a very pivotal role in his early development by taking every opportunity to belittle him and make him feel as though he were insignificant. His mother was so very proud of him that her accounts of his talent are almost mythical. IMHO I think much of what he became was governed by him wanting to distance himself from his father and at the same time live up to his mother's respect. The divorce only enforced his view that his father was very much like a proprietary technology and his mother was very much like "the world is your oyster" now go make a name for yourself and MAKE people happy.

The arguement that software should be "free" or "open source" minimizes the amount of time that actually goes into creating a large piece of software. Throughout the book I was looking for that one "killer" app that RMS created from nothing and I was not able to find it. I'm not talking about seeing something and knowing that you can do it better. I'm talking about actually seeing a problem and creating a software solution where none existed before. I didn't see that. Furthermore, I kept wondering where RMS was getting the funds to continue on his journey only to discover that he was staying at different places for free, people were probably buying him breakfast, lunch, and dinner, etc. He was supporting himself by lecturing and winning awards of some kind or another. Certainly $240K is enough to live on for a few years.

Towards the end it became clear that in the end nothing is truly "free" or "open." Take for example many of the people who work on "free" or "open" software, first many if not most rely on code that has been "opened" and they are using it as a springboard and many of the "researchers" who develope software do so within institutions where they are paid a salary or grant, or something...where does that money come from? It comes from people who pay taxes...who work for companies with proprietary technology including software, hardware, materials, processes, etc...they have trade secrets and patens. In addition much is made about the viability of creating profit through "free" or "open" business models. Sure you can get some money by consulting/supporting your "free" or "open" software, but that is miniscule to the amount you can get by selling software...the two just don't compare.

For the commercial proprietary companies mentioned like IBM, Sun Microsystems, Netscape, etc. Well at the heart of these companies is hardware and patented proprietary technology. If you can't beat the competition on one level then the next best thing is to increase the markets perceived utility of your products by giving them away and "opening" them up so that by some chance you can leverage the increased awareness and creativity by latching on your hardware products...just along for the ride.

The only truly "free" or "open" sources I would credit with being as such are those where the person has created from scratch their own ideas and used those ideas to write code that is open to anything including non-peer publishing. Also this person would be in no way receiving any $$$ from any source that has ties to proprietary technologies including stock grants, trust funds, donations for speaking engagements where the donors are associated with such proprietary technologies.

Will "free" or "open" software prevail...to a small degree perhaps? Will they become the defacto standard within software...I don't think so? Why not...well given that Navigator was 30 million lines of code it would take a small army of people a very long time to replicate that if they didn't use some other code as a base, and given how many egos there are within the developer communities I just don't see that kind of collaboration occuring in a short period of time. Firefox has become a hit after this book was published, but it is basically Navigator with some other stuff. OpenOffice.org is the same way though this is just an attempt on Sun's part to entice users to their side or at the least reduce the reserves of their competitors.

In the end this book does a good job of solidifying for myself, at least, an understanding of why RMS is the way he is and why profit ultimately provides the largest innovations within the mainstream while also providing the inevitable end to companies who attempt to drive a wedge between an idea and reality.

Wait until the free energy, free material reorginization, and free will movements start. Imagine telling a company that those digital documents which contain all their IP need to be made public if they concern a new way of generating power, imagine material reorganization such that devices can be created from some basic materials...free those designs...they're digital after all, imagine people exercising their "will" to no longer live under communist rule...China is in for a big change!!!

One of the worst biographies ever.......2007-07-05

I am finding it difficult to finish this book (@ chap. 8).
Apparently, Stallman is perfect and doesn't do anything wrong, and if it appears so it's because it's done for a reason. This is by far the least critical biography/history ever.

He is classy.......2006-11-04

It's great to read the story of the master who began this Free Software revolution!

You'll learn a lot about RMS, but at the same time be tired by the simple level........2006-01-28

FREE AS IN FREEDOM is Sam Williams' biography of legendary software developer and political thinker Richard Stallman. Founder of the GNU project, Stallman is little-known outside of a relatively small world of computing cognoscenti, but without him Linux and many other modern computing innovations would hardly be possible. In an interesting twist, the publisher O'Reilly has released this book under the GNU Free Documentation License, meaning that the book may be freely copied and sold.

The book goes from Stallman's youth in New York of the 1950s and 1960s all the way to the "free software" vs "open source" debate continuing into 2001. Strangely, the late 1980s are treated skimpily; the reader basically goes from the 1983 announcement of the GNU project to the introduction of Linux in 1993 in a couple of pages. A strength of the book is the range of Stallman's acquaintances that Williams was able to interview: many of his fellow students at Harvard and co-workers in MIT's AI lab contributed to the book, and even Stallman's mother gives a great deal of comment. Stallman is a notoriously difficult person to get along with. Williams frankly discusses the possibility that his lack of social skills is due to autism, but notes that against this Stallman shows marvellous ingenuity in computing. Williams does try to walk a tightrope here between dispassionate reporting about a controversial figure and giving him too much praise. Whether you admire Stallman as a modern-day saint or despise him as a pinko Communist, you'll be comfortable with the tone of this work.

The book was clearly written for a hardly-technical audience. Concepts like the Emacs editor are gently described in depth that will tire us readers who have been using it for years. The book also could have benefitted from more proofreading. There are some typos, and redundant introduction of commentators who were introduced already one or two pages before. So, this is an imperfect biography. I enjoyed it and learned a lot about a fascinating figure, but it would be nice had the book included a little more detail about GNU's formative years and hadn't assumed a non-technical audience.

Very Good Book.......2005-03-28

I find Stallman and Linus a very interesting comparison, especially their motivations. Williams has done a good job of providing the reader insight into a leading thinker in our time. As with most leaders there are those who think he is a genius, those who think he is a fool and those who think he is evil. The choice is of course dependent upon how closely the leader agrees with the observer.

"Free as In Freedom" paints what seems to be an accurate if not overly flattering portrait of RMS. He comes off as a brilliant but deeply wounded and vicious person. RMS describes those who disagree with his philosophy as engaging in evil. Not in doing something he believes is evil. The great contribution he made began as a temper tantrum as a result of people being hired away from the MIT AI Lab and Stallman not having access to tools that had been paid for and provided to him previously. One of the most remarkable facets about Stallman is that his temper has benefited so many people. Most of us just throw the &^%##@ driver in the *&^%##@ lake !

Stallman is a major contributor in our time and this is an excellent book. If you are interested in the Free Software/Open Source movement this is a must read.

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