What have you got to learn? (or teach) 18

A lot of good teaching goes on at dailyKos.  But a lot of it doesn't get read by everyone who wants to read it, because diaries scroll by so fast.
This series is about diaries that teach and about things you want to learn.  Could be any subject - an academic subject, a skill, a hobby, almost anything - but not diaries that simply inform, or it would include all of daily kos.  

What I do is, each week, search for the tags 'teaching' and 'learning' and for diarists whom I know write diaries that teach.  Then I'll post the list, with perhaps some brief comment, and open the floor to people who want to learn something specific.

You can help me by tagging diaries with 'teaching' or 'learning' when you see diaries that merit those tags, by reminding me of what I've missed, by recommending this diary, and by commenting.

For a list of some series and diarists that might appeal, see my diary What are you teaching/learning? and the comments to it

OK.....here we go, alphabetically by diarist

boran2 is up to volume 91 of Saturday Painting Palooza

claude has volume XXXVI of home repair

dcoronata diaries the greatest (bird) show on Earth in Spring Migration 6 and Spring migration 7, earlier he had Spring Migration 5 about the most beautiful bird in NA

ek hornbeck continues to welcome new users

fareast continues his discussion of things Linux with Ubuntu: Sandbox edition

Frankenoid is on volume 3.11 of Home and Garden blogging

kellogg shows the importance of the rhetorical tradition in the rhetoric of now (I missed the first two in this series, will have to go back and read

Mark H continues his discussion of marine life, this time talking about piping plovers

mkfox tells of another forgotten founding father : William Samuel Johnson

myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics covered the history of vetoes

refinish69 discusses depression

retrograde showed us a new tool for using DKOS wisely: the tagfinder

In the week's Frugal Fridays sarahnity discusses frugally raising frugal koslets

tvb pinch hit in What's for dinner?

WinterRabbit wrote about the Sand Creek Massacre national historic site

But that's just part 1!  Use the comments to tell us what you want to learn.  Maybe someone here can help (it's pretty likely, actually)

•  Tip jar

  Tips, comments, recommends.....all welcome

  If you've been here it would be nice to let me know somehow....

  by plf515 on Sat May 05, 2007 at 05:55:24 AM PDT

•  Wow

  Thanks for this roundup.

  by Nelsons on Sat May 05, 2007 at 06:06:18 AM PDT

  •  You are very welcome

    glad it's useful, and thanks for letting me know.

    If you see diaries that need the teaching tag, please add it - that will help

    by plf515 on Sat May 05, 2007 at 06:15:23 AM PDT

•  Well, BJ dad and I are really going to do it.

  We are going to take introductory Italian at our local community college in the first summer session.

  by blue jersey mom on Sat May 05, 2007 at 06:07:28 AM PDT

•  I'm here!

  I read every week but am not writing much until I get the cast off my hand.  Week from Thursday.  I can't wait.

  Thanks, plf.  This is a terrific series.

  by kate petersen on Sat May 05, 2007 at 06:14:42 AM PDT

  •  thanks for letting me know

    good luck with your hand

    by plf515 on Sat May 05, 2007 at 06:16:00 AM PDT

    •  Thanks

      It's healing well and there isn't much pain, but I never before realized just how right-handed I am.  Very frustrating to not be able to do things.

      by kate petersen on Sat May 05, 2007 at 07:17:06 AM PDT

      •  You could teach people

        how to do things with their non-dominant hand :)

        I had to figure some of that out last year when I strained my right index finger--it's not easy.

        by casperr on Sat May 05, 2007 at 07:37:48 AM PDT

        •  My wife had to do this when she had a brain tumor

          removed.

          by plf515 on Sat May 05, 2007 at 07:50:26 AM PDT

          •  Oh, yikes! Is she all right?

            Mine is temporary, at least.

            by kate petersen on Sat May 05, 2007 at 07:51:43 AM PDT

            •  The tumor was removed about 20

              years ago, and so far, there is no recurrence.

              She has to have an MRI every few years, to check.  It was a VERY slow growing tumor (there were no signs of any problem til she was in her mid 20s) and they think they got all of it.

              So, she seems to be OK :-)

              by plf515 on Sat May 05, 2007 at 08:03:49 AM PDT

        •  One thing I am learning

          is that vegetables taste just as good chopped in ragged trapezoids as they do in neat little dice.  :D

          by kate petersen on Sat May 05, 2007 at 07:50:49 AM PDT

          •  Heh.

            Yeah, my left hand is pretty useless for certain tasks, too. People say you get better with practice.

            by casperr on Sat May 05, 2007 at 07:58:22 AM PDT

            •  One thing I've done

              is to practice dialing the phone and other critical tasks using my non-dominant hand - when seconds count is not the time to be learning a new skill.

              by Nelsons on Sat May 05, 2007 at 09:37:44 AM PDT

•   a great series on Kent State

  that ran here on Dkos last year is being posted at http://www.progressivehistorians.com... It's the best I have seen.

  by OneCrankyDom on Sat May 05, 2007 at 06:29:42 AM PDT

•  Good morning!

  I wish I had gone to bed last night an hour earlier than I did, rather than asking question in an Edwards disry.  Apparently they don't want my vote.

  Anyway...topic.  It's the calm before the storm.  Finals week looms.  I shall have to go write about that, I think.

  by rserven on Sat May 05, 2007 at 06:31:50 AM PDT

  •  How are you doing?

    flu?
    eyes?
    can you at least see yourself getting better?

    by plf515 on Sat May 05, 2007 at 06:36:00 AM PDT

    •  I can see myself getting lots of sleep...

      ...in a few days, but that's probably pie in the sky.

      I see the surgeon for my follow-up visit on Wednesday.  Maybe glasses are on the agenda.  It would be nice to not have to struggle to read.  Fortunately on computers I can adjust the font size.

      I'm over the flu, but still run down from it.

      The downstairs neighbors who were stealing our electricity to run their business are moving out, so there is a bright side.

      by rserven on Sat May 05, 2007 at 06:39:44 AM PDT

•  Book.

  I'm wondering if anyone here has read Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-Enchantment of the World by George Levine.  I saw it displayed at the UC Berkeley library a couple of weeks back, and it's been kind of haunting me since.  Want to get around to picking it up one of these days, but there's a bunch of other stuff that has to come first.

  by dirkster42 on Sat May 05, 2007 at 08:32:38 AM PDT