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• Round Robin Date Nights

  From February 06, 2010 @ 6:00 am

  We’ve been placing a lot of pressure on my sister and her husband to help us have a date night by watching Fiery. They’ve been awesome about it so far and we’ve been able to have date night a few times since Fiery has started to primarily eat when she’s hungry rather than nurse. This does, in my mind, place a fairly large burden on them, however, and I’ve been trying to think of a fairer way for parents of young children to have date night without having to resort to professional (or unprofessional) babysitting services.

  How’s this for an idea?

  Have a sort of round robin affair within a circle of friends who all have kids. The way it would work is thus: One family is up, all the other family’s can drop their kids off at a predetermined time (say, 6 o’clock). The one family can have activities or whatever and a large but simple to prepare dinner (grilled cheese?) that can be shared by all the kids. All the other families can go out and plan to be back no later than a given time so that the family hosting the children can expect when to be relieved (say, 10). That gives all but one family the opportunity to go out for the night. Rinse and repeat.

  If you have a large group of friends, you’d only be up every couple of weeks. With five families, you’d have to watch about 10 kids every 5 weeks, and 4 weeks in a row you could have date night. That seems like a win. You could even organize this in your church depending on how much you trust your fellow church goers. If your circle is too big, then just split it up so that the family responsible for watching the kids isn’t overwhelmed.

  Or…

  We could always go with The Baby Sitters Club.

• Mr. Miyagi: King of Task Based Exercise

  From May 05, 2009 @ 6:00 am

  I won’t in any way claim to be physically fit. In fact, my health has always somewhat boggled my mind. I’m currently a trim 275, I can bike 50 miles in a day no problem going 13 or 14 MPH, I can set up and tear down a sound system, I can ‘run’ a mile in around 8 minutes, and my wife doesn’t think I’m all that fat. Oh, and I love to eat meat and recently a good glass of wine or bottle of beer is a welcome accompaniment to my evening meal.

  I know… Not a exactly shining example of davidic perfection.

  I would like, though, not to blame this on my sin of gluttony love of food/lack of discipline/flat feet/lack of friends to do it with/lack of money for a gym membership. Instead (don’t worry, I won’t dodge), quite simply this comes down to the fact that I hate exercising for no other reason than my health. I loathe the gym for this reason. It’s literally a place that you go to do nothing but exercise for a few hours. I don’t know if any amount of podcasts or audio books could make up for the frustration that would build within me (I’m getting frustrated right now!). What I need, if I’m going to exercise at all, is task-based exercising.

  Task-Based Exercising

  Task-based exercising is something that makes a ton of sense to me. Let me describe it at it’s heart. For people like me who just refuse to be motivated by health alone, what we need is a task to accomplish that’s also a work out. For example, I hadn’t gotten on a bike in years and then I found out that my work and school were only ten miles away from where I lived. The budget was tight and so I said to myself, “I can bike ten miles. How hard can it be?” So bike I did.

  And it was wonderful!

  I was getting a 20 mile bike ride in 4 days a week, which is the kind of bike ride that most people don’t have time for. Plus, because I was biking instead of driving, I was able to, for the most part, bypass hairy traffic situations. This didn’t end up saving me time (it took me about 20 minutes longer to bike in than to drive in, for those who are interested), but it did keep me moving rather than sitting in a car in stop and go traffic and it was fun. There’s very little as satisfying as when you’re riding along and the sun’s coming up over the horizon and you’ve got morning dew in your beard and… Sorry about that. I’ll try not to fantasize in here.

  I had a task to do: Get Tim into X (where X is School or Work). I chose to do it by biking. It would have been easier to drive (albeit much more expensive. One day I’ll actually chart out how much money I think biking saves me) but I seized the opportunity at minimal cost to myself and I got in much better shape.

  Mr. Miyagi

  

  This article’s title is, for the 1 uncool person that reads this blog, obviously a reference to the incredible, classic 80s movie, The Karate Kid. It’s a story about a rough and tumble teenage boy who gets transplanted from all he knows to a strange new place where he must face the evil teenage gangs of the underworld and save the fair princess who has a crush on him.

  OK. Exaggeration.

  But really, it’s an awesome movie. Best part? Mr. Miyagi. See Daniel does really move across the country and face a rough group of martial arts savvy kids in his new school who don’t take a liking to him (also, dirt bikes.). Daniel is unable to stand up for himself and gets the crud kicked out of him. Miyagi San takes pity on him and offers to train him in the mysterious ways of kick-buttery.

  How then does he approach this task of all tasks? Task-based exercising of course! Mr. Miyagi doesn’t teach Daniel a bit of karate for a solid half of the training montage. Instead, pointing to a humongous collection of cars (where did he get all those cars!?), he delivers to Daniel the now famous line, “Wax on, Wax Off.” A whole slew of these scenes ensues. Daniel’s stuck painting fences, waxing cars, and sanding floors (while Mr. Miyagi is off either getting drunk on sake or catching flies with chopsticks, presumably because they annoyed him and not because he was, erm, hungry…).

  Eventually, Daniel snaps. He was all excited when Mr. Miyagi offered to help him and instead he figures that Mr. Miyagi was just looking for cheap labor.

  But then Mr. Miyagi totally jumps him! And out of nowhere Daniel’s blocking all of Miyagi’s stuff! And it’s then revealed, of course, that what looked like nothing but chores to Daniel were actually secret ninja arts of death to Miyagi San. Then Daniel asks, “Have any more cars?”.

  That’s not exactly how it goes down. But it could have been.

  Reality

  Unfortunately, since we moved I haven’t been able to bike into work anymore. The distance went from a truly manageable 10 miles to a whopping 25. I actually tried to do it for a little while (when our minivan finally broke down), but the combination of 50 mile trips on the bike per day and a circa 5 hour in-transit time quickly defeated that effort. I really do believe that eventually I’ll be able to do it (According to Wikipedia, typical reasonably fit riders should be able to ride at about 20 mph. I could deal with an hour.) However, without a task to do, I don’t really bike anymore. I don’t do yard work. I don’t break down or set up the sound system all that much anymore. Basically I’m back to square one.

  However, recently I worked up the muster to actually try to start jogging. I set up a little nearly mile long loop through a park right near my house that I can do in about 10 minutes (hey, I’ve got 10 minutes a day.) and running is a much better work out than biking is (I can’t run the full mile and I’m pretty darn winded afterword whereas, like I said, I can bike for pretty much as long as I’m wiling to go for).

  So yeah, my advice boils down to this: If you have trouble selling yourself on exercising for nothing but your health, choose a harder way to do something that you’re already doing if you can.

  Errata

  1. I was sad to hear, although I have no idea why I was surprised, that Pat Morita, who played our beloved Mr. Miyagi, passed away on November 26, 2005.

  2. I haven’t read Leo’s Blog in awhile (it had kind of descended into a long series of 10-ways-to-do-x-better when I finally unsubbed) but I still think he’s a capital guy with a great family and a good head on his shoulders about productivity and life. He’s a big fan of what he calls Functional Workouts. It’s very similar to my idea of task-based exercising. Also, a lot of his exercise material is really worth reading if you have a rainy day to kill.

  Have any exercise related tips or sites of your own to share?

• I’ve got a system…

  From November 12, 2008 @ 12:30 pm

  Wow… This comic summarizes my life so well right now.

  Fail.

• Web Productivity with Firefox, Morning Coffee, and Ctrl Navigation

  From August 04, 2008 @ 6:00 am

  I have a confession to make: I’m a tab browsing nut! My morning browsing typically looks like this: Pop open Firefox, open up Gmail, GCalendar, GReader, Twitter, and Remember the Milk, Read my mail and open any links that look interesting in a new tab, switch to GReader and pop through my feeds and open up all of the interesting stories (typically over 25 which is when Firefox starts blocking the popups from GReader (I’ll give a big hug to the person who can tell me how to turn that feature off)) in new tabs, then start going through the web pages and, if I think some things are really interesting, e-mail them out to people I think would be interested in seeing it, closing tabs along the way. This process has never been very efficient, and beyond that for the rest of the day as I found myself jumping to Wikipedia or to the Java documentation or to The Google to research some other topic, I would often want to shoot an e-mail out to someone or draft something up in Burning Ones or shoot a quick twitter off and that would entail opening a new tab, typing in the URL or otherwise creating a tab that I use quite often. All of this has changed, however, thanks to some extensions that I’ve found that make the whole process of tabbed-browsing much more painless.

  First off, the problem I was attempting to solve was that on a regular basis I wanted to begin browsing, not with a simple homepage, but with a set of pages. This comes from my proclivity for having 10 apps open up anytime I log in to my Mac or PC at work. I simply have a bunch of things that I want to be able to access immediately. It’s the same when I get online. I knew of no way to do this in Firefox.

  Getting set up with Morning Coffee

  Enter Morning Coffee. Morning Coffee, according to the addon website,

  lets you organize websites by day and open them up simultaneously as part of your daily routine. This is really handy if you read sites that update on a regular schedule (like webcomics, weekly columns, etc.).

  The interface is really slick. I added it’s quick access icon to my Firefox toolbar and quickly navigated to all of my common access sites and added them to Morning Coffee everyday. You’ll quickly notice that this is just one way to do it. Have a web comic that you access every M/W/F? There’s a pre-made entry for that. Something more complex? Add it to the days individually. Once you’ve configured MC with the sites you want on the days you want them, simply set Firefox to open to a blank page when you start it up. After it loads (it’ll be nice and fast since it won’t have to render a site), click Morning Coffee and boom, all of your sites open up. However, that’s where the real fun begins.

  One of the options in Morning Coffee is to open the sites in a random order. That’s all well and good and I happily selected it when I first started using MC. I did this under the misguided assumption that it would add some spice to my browsing routine by introducing some anarchy to the situation. However, by deselecting this and combining it with a few other tools, you can get a surprisingly powerful effect that I’ll attempt to cover here.

  Tools Of Power

  Leaving MC for a little bit, let’s talk some Firefox pillow-goodness. An intrinsic feature of Firefox that is not terribly well documented is the feature that allows you to navigate your tabs by pressing Ctrl and the number of the tab you wish to navigate to. If you want to get to the fifth tab over from the left, you press Ctrl-5 and voila! you’re there. Obviously this can only work for a small number of tabs, but the good Firefox developers thoughtfully hotkeyed Ctrl-9 to automatically take you to the rightmost tab. It’s like magic really. But how useful is this? I mean, who wants to count over from the left every time they want to go to tab. It’d be quicker to use the mouse. And, if you have as many tabs as I tend to have open, you haven’t got a prayer to only use the keyboard to jump around because you simply won’t be able to see all the tabs. Enter the next uber-sw33t extension: Fancy Numbered Tabs.

  Fancy Numbered Tabs replaces the close tab graphic on the tab with the number of the tab in the Ctrl Navigation engine. This means that with a quick glance at the tab bar, you can see which number to press to go to the tab you want.

  So What?

  OK, so those too things combined would be pretty nice alone, but then came the break through in my head. It goes back to the fact that I wanted to be able to quickly access quite a few things that lived in my browser. GMail was a must, GCalendar for quickly adding events as I heard about them, GReader for when I wanted to spend a little time reading some feeds, Twitter, Remember the Milk, etc. etc. All of the sudden I realized that with the proper configuration I could set up an environment where I would always know exactly how to quickly access my mail or any other site that I wanted to with the quick press of two buttons.

  The strategy is as follows. Hearkening back to the fact that Morning Coffee can open your sites in a specified order, I simply unchecked the random opening feature so that GMail would always be tab 1 if I opened it with Morning coffee. GCalendar is tab 2. GReader; tab 3. And so on. Firefox, by default, opens links in new tabs and popups at the end of the tab list, not directly to the right of the tabs that they’re in. What this means is that wherever I am, so long as I haven’t closed any of my standard tabs, I can quickly access my mail or my calendar or anything else that I want that kind of access to because it’s always in the same location.

  That felt pretty melodramatic with the set-up that I did, but let me tell you, I find browsing to be much more efficient now that I’ve done this. It’s configurable to match any browsing habit, and you can even quickly reset your browser because Morning Coffee will replace all current tabs with it’s own setup whenever you click its icon.

  To quickly wrap up.

  1. Install Morning Coffee and create the site list. If you have constant sites for every day, make sure they’re in the same position (early in the list) for every day. Then add day specific sites on top of those sites, etc.
  2. Set Firefox to open to a blank page
  3. Install Fancy Numbered Tabs
  4. Begin tab browsing productively

  Just to mention: an alternate way that you can accomplish this that I’ve only heard of is that apparently Firefox can accept multiple sites as it’s home page. This would be nowhere near as configurable as going with Morning Coffee, but may be easier for some.

  Extensions I’d Love To See

  One extension I’d love to see that would make this even better would be for a way to sync Morning Coffee data between multiple installations of Firefox. The fact that I have to set this up on every computer I use on a regular basis is a bit of a pain. Of course it’s also nice to be able to have separate preferences between work and home and such. It would just be a nice option to have. I’d also love to able to set Morning Coffee to a key combination for really easy activation. Also, some sort of integration with the Firefox homepage preference so that I can have Firefox automatically load whatever is in Morning Coffee would rock pretty hard.

  Anyway, let me know if this helps anyone by leaving a comment or shooting me an e-mail. I’d love to hear from you. Are there any ways that you’ve found to be more productive while tab browsing? Let’s hear your ideas!

• Question: Is it possible to have GMail do time based tasks on sets of e-mail?

  From August 01, 2008 @ 6:00 am

  Problem

  I’m subscribed to a bunch of e-mail lists and other notifications of the sort that has come to be known as Bacn. There have been plenty of lively discussions about the problem of bacn and how to properly deal with it. The attitude I’ve adopted is that I don’t let any bacn enter my inbox. I have a filter set up that labels all incoming mail that I have identified as bacn (thankfully, bacn is much easier to identify than it’s drunken monkey uncle, spam) as such (‘Bacn’ if you must know the actual label used) and then immediately archives it. This is handy because I can know that if I have something in my inbox, it’s probably something I care about right now (thank you, GMail, for your awesome spam protection). Despite bacn being something I’m interested in, without proper attention it’s alarmingly easy to have hundreds of messages pile up in a matter of days. Seeing that I have 200 items it my bacn box can be quite discouraging so I end up not reading any of them. This is what I’d like to solve.

  Assumptions

  I’ll assume that bacn is consumable media. If I miss some topic that get’s covered on css-d, I know that A) I can search for it later and B) It’s more than likely to come up again. If I get a notification that someone wants to become my friend on Facebook and I miss it, I know that another notification will eventually come through and I’ll go to the site and find a friend request. In other words, bacn is expendable to the max, it’s just something that can interest you in the moment and is probably enlightening at the same time.

  Solution?

  What I’ve come up with is something I know I could do in Mail.app on my Mac (if i used that anymore) but I have no idea how to do in GMail. I basically want to say the following: Delete all messages that match a certain criteria (label=bacn;date received prior to midnight this morning) at such and such a time or even on a recurring basis. This would be somewhat trivial in a desktop app but how to do it in GMail is truly beyond me. Possibly with Greasemonkey somehow? Anyway, this is where I turn it over to you. Any thoughts? Is this something you’ve figured out how to do? Let me know in the comments or via e-mail.

• To Focus (part 2): Using Routine to Harness the Power of Habit and Get Things Done.

  From April 03, 2008 @ 8:11 pm

  A Short History: Waking Early and Routine.

  I was reading this article over on Zen Habits the other day and made the decision to attempt to become an early riser again. I have always struggled mightily with the ability to wake up. Probably due to my propensity to go to sleep late (because I, for some reason, associate late nights with freedom and adulthood, more on this in some other post), I have always woken up in the morning feeling like a ton of bricks had been repeatedly dropped on my head all night. I don’t know what a hangover really feels like (having never had an occasion to get one), but if it’s anything like what I wake up feeling like, it must be terrible.

  Months ago, I decided that I wanted to change this. I have always wanted to be an early riser, but I never have been able to truly follow through. I actually believe that God had told me that he wanted me to start waking up early (4:00 AM to be exact). I said, “Great!” assuming that since it was a command from God, he would magically make me wake up every morning and I’d feel great after a night’s sleep for the first time in my life. Well, that didn’t happen. After about a month, I gave up. I simply refused to consistently make decisions to get me in bed on time, and while I still believe God wanted me to wake up at that time, he will not interfere with our free-will in that manner.

  So, all of that to say that I’m back at it. Leo’s article inspired me and I decided to go for it. The key tip for me was waking up earlier by slowly making incremental steps backward, rather than attempting to make one huge leap backward. The last time I tried to do this, I literally went from waking up at around 10 and going to sleep around 1 or 2 every night to trying to wake up at 4 and going to sleep at 9 or 10… In One Night! Obviously, this didn’t work (well, it worked for about a week, until going to sleep at midnight and waking up at 4 took it’s toll). Some other tips from that article also up for honorable mention are putting the alarm clock far from your bed, leaving the room as soon as you turn the alarm clock off, allow yourself to sleep earlier, and last but no where near the least, Do Not Let Yourself Rationalize!

  Coupling The Desire To Wake Up Early With A New Lack Of Fear For Routine.

  Now I’m faced with a decision. How do I get myself to wake up early and still get things that I want to do done. After all, I’ve come to the conclusion that I need no small amount of sleep (curse all of you 5 or 6 hours a night people! ;) ); I’ve got to get a solid 7 or 8 hours every night or I start loosing it. Even at that rate, I still seem to benefit from more sleep in the day. My current answer? Routine. The only way I can see at the moment to guarantee that day after day I’m doing what I want to do is to establish habits in my life that allow me to naturally and effortlessly attain my goals.

  For those of you who know me, this is a pretty big deal. I have always been a vocal opponent of habit and routine because I associate it strongly with thoughtless living. I hate thoughtless living. I don’t like what it does to people. Thoughtlessness is what allows people to be in this magnificent journey called life and yet be totally unaware in the moment. Always thinking about the next period of life, never satisfied in the now, never able to appreciate life or situation. I don’t want to live like that.

  However, I have decided now that there are two types of habit. For the sake of simplicity we will refer to them as bad and good habits. A bad habit is what I would associate with the above. Generally, they are formed unintentionally by simply doing the same things over and over again. Also, they have a tendency to be things that we would rather not do but have extreme trouble breaking away from specifically because they are formed naturally by what we do without thinking. A good habit, to contrast, is a habit that one forms intentionally to help accomplish a goal in there life. We all have many bad habits; God formed us to be creatures of habit so it’s only natural. However, I find that many people (myself very much included) do not take this and realize that this same facet that can produce so much entrenched evil in their life can be harnessed purposefully for good.

  This realization has made me loose my fear of habit. There are still clear dangers (I’ll discuss the ones I know about later), but I believe that they are outweighed by the benefits. And, more pointedly, the very practice of forming a habit in your life gives you practice for how to break habits you don’t like.

  How Am I Actually Implementing This Principle Right Now?

  Briefly, the main problem I have encountered to date with attempting to create routine in my life is what I term “Variable Days”. Simple concept: My days do not look the same. There is a certain amount of built-in, non-voluntary routine (school Tuesdays and Thursdays. Work Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Prayer meeting Monday Night. etc.) however this is very hard to build a routine around simply because of the length of time the cycle takes to repeat itself. Getting your brain to fall into a routine over the space of a week is much harder to do than creating routine over the space of a day that repeats. So, what I have done is attempt to identify constants over the space of every day that revolve around behavioral triggers. These are events that happen every day that I see as useful hook points for a routine execution. There are three that I’ve identified so far: Waking Up, Getting Home, Going to Sleep. I’ve started with Waking up and Going to Sleep.

  I was originally planning on actually telling you all about my routine, but since I suddenly realized that that would qualify easily for TMI and a 10 on the boring scale, I’ve decided to simply describe the structure of the routines. I actually wrote out my routine in NeoOffice Writer and printed a bunch of copies. The actually format is pictured here (along with the actual routine). I then posted those all over the house, especially along my routine route. It was important in the development of the routine that each event naturally flow into the next, i.e. I shouldn’t go to the kitchen, start something there, go back to the room, get something that I could have brought with me in the beginning, and then turn around and go back to the kitchen. I should leave each area ready for the next.

  Then, when each trigger event happens (Waking up, 8:00 p.m. hitting), I simply glance at the first item on the list and the next and attempt to go through the motions. As much as possible, I attempt to wean myself from the routine sheet as the brain eventually has to learn how to do this on instinct rather than just because the paper says so.

  Conclusion.

  I’d have to say that the biggest deterrent I have encountered so far is when I mess up and don’t follow my routine. It’s really easy to get really down on yourself when you don’t follow through, especially because so much of your desired activities are wrapped up in your routine. I don’t know how to get over this at this point, but rest assured I’m being encouraged by my friends and family. Any encouraging comments would be helpful, as well as any thoughts you have about routine in your own life. Is it good, is it bad? Do you have any routines that you wish you could break out of?

  Anyway, can’t wait to hear about it!

• To Focus (part 1): Haiku Productivity

  From February 21, 2008 @ 6:07 pm

  So, I have recently come up against the brutal realization that I do not have any natural focussing ability. I am naturally a scatter-brained and dilluted individual. This really hampers my ability to get anything done. It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s just that as I go about doing anything my brain is constantly flitting around to other things. I don’t think this is necessarily all bad. I appreciate the way God has made me and I believe that it does have some purpose. But when I need to get something done, I have to have a strategy. Over a few articles I’m going to attempt to document the strategy that I have taken up in the name of accomplishing the tasks I have set before me. You’re reading part 1: Haiku Productivity.

  Haiku Productivity

  What is Haiku Productivity? It’s first and foremost a fantastic little idea that I read about over on Zen Habits (via Life Hacker). A Haiku, of course, is a poem that forces extreme brevity upon the author and can produce some of the most charged words possible because, quite literally, every syllable counts. The basic idea, applied to productivity, is to “intentionally bind ourselves” to doing only a small number of things.

  If we’re honest with ourselves, we can only focus on a small number of things at a time before our activity degrades to mindlessness. It’s probably less than you think it is, too. The strategy, then, is to deliberately reduce the number of things that we are doing at any given time in order to do the things we are doing better and with greater effect. I’m taking this idea and running with it in the following ways.

  Divide My Life Into Areas

  First, I have divided my life into rough areas. It’s kind of funny because when I was a bit younger and even now I fiercely opposed compartmentalization. Here I am doing just that. However, I’m not compartmentalizing the important things so much as I am attempting to figure out what exactly it is that is important to me.

  I have divided my life into areas such as God, Friends, Family, Games, Computers, Reading, etc. Within each area I have listed subjects that I want to be focussing on. For instance, in Family I have maintaining relationships as one of my goals. In God I have being discipled and personal prayer. In games I have lists of all of the games I would like to play on each system I have access to that I already have (coincidentally, this has stopped my impulse to buy new games because I have about 100 games that I want to play that I already own!).

  2 Focus Subjects per Area

  Second, I have structured things so that I cannot divide my focus amongst too many subjects within a given area of my life. The rule is: Focus on no more than 2 subjects in any one area at a time. This is because I don’t believe I can adequately address anything if I’m focusing on any more than one other subject within that particular area. What that translates into in the Computer area is that I am only focussing on Web Application Architecture and Design Patterns. Other areas are the same.

  2 Areas a Day

  Third, I allow myself to focus on no more than 2 areas a day. For instance, on Wednesday my focus is Computers and Reading. I attempt to focus my free time for that whole day on just those subjects. The rule from above still applies to this; what that means is that in any given day I am at most focussed on 4 total subjects, with the most at a single time of 2.

  See Subjects through to completion

  And last, for each area of focus I must complete the subject before I am allowed to move on to the next. In other words, unless something drastic has come up that forces me to change one of my subjects, I see that subject through to it’s completion. This forces me to allow a given subject to take as long as it’s going to take. In the past, I have been plagued with the feeling that I can’t ever complete something because I believe that I should be able to get it done faster than I am. It always perplexed me when people talked in terms of months and years. For me, I always expect myself to finish something in a week or two. No more! I will let each subject draw out as long as is needed for me to complete it.

  Well, there it is… That’s how Haiku Productivity looks for me. It might seem a little complicated, but when you want to do as much as I want to do, I don’t know how else to structure it.

  Have any suggestions? Leave ‘em in the comments.

• Global Warming: What is real?

  From December 12, 2007 @ 1:36 pm

  Hey everyone,

  Finals week is really finally almost over and then I’m home free for the Christmas break! That means that maybe I’ll get around to updating this site and writing a few blogs here or there. Wouldn’t that be novel?

  Anyway, I was just taking a small break from work and browsing through my RSS feeds. I’ve noticed that there has been a slew of news items about global warming lately. This probably corresponds to Gore’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize. This article, in particular, caught my attention.

  So, acknowledging that there is probably a good deal of fear-mongering going on here as well as other humanist agendas, but also acknowledging that there has to be some truth here (unlike what the conservative groups tends to preach), I feel as though I really have to start taking this serious and doing some research on it. Unfortunately, I don’t really know where to start. I’m looking for just a basic introductory book on the subject, somewhat like this book is for IDvEvo, only about climate change. After that, I would like to read a book or a white paper or something that is pro human-caused climate change, and a book that is against. Unfortunately, after some very cursory searching on google I couldn’t find any obvious books like Evolution vs. Creationism.

  Has anyone heard of anything that they could recommend to me?

  Love ya’ll! Wish me luck on my last final tomorrow!