Thank you so much for the advice, the kind words, and the sympathy!
You rock, swampgirl!

In reply to this comment by swampgirl:
If he's inspired, don't stop him. Your boy sounds like a self teacher. Arrange for him to have enough of time daily for that. You don't have to have every hour planned from breakfast to dinner with a complicated regime. Have a plan for all the main subjects to be covered daily in short sessions and then give him tons of free time in cleverly structured afternoons.

My boy likes to obsess over something he's fallen in love with for a week so. During these times, I condense down the basics from his school books he needs to cover and makes sure he spends 15 or 20 mins on each subject. Then I turn him loose to be free to immerse himself in his current project.

(This past week it was a circuit board jr set It came with over 100 experiments. He wouldn't stop until he did them all. It took him 5 days. He's asking for another one with new things to make. Cool eh?)
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Ooooh, I so feel for you about the support problem. Last year we lived in the "middle of nowhere" N.C. The only group was a 40 min drive and it was Baptist. We've sensed moved to a larger area where we found a secular co-op.

If you can't stand the evangelical homeschooler's culture then sign him up for as many clubs as you can find like Scouts or 4-H.



In reply to this comment by laura:
I loved swampgirl's:
http://blog.videosift.com/swampgirl/The-Bitter-Homeschoolers-Wish-List
My son and I are loving it so far, my challenge w/ him is to s l o w down, he just absorbs everything so fast....yes, he was one of those typical cases you hear of that the kid was "just so bored that..."
Anyway, out here in the middle of nowhere it's finding support that's not religion based that is hard...

I loved swampgirl's:
http://blog.videosift.com/swampgirl/The-Bitter-Homeschoolers-Wish-List
My son and I are loving it so far, my challenge w/ him is to s l o w down, he just absorbs everything so fast....yes, he was one of those typical cases you hear of that the kid was "just so bored that..."
Anyway, out here in the middle of nowhere it's finding support that's not religion based that is hard...

>> ^Raytrace:
From digg comments:
You guys know these tax bus videos are staged, right?
Those random chicks are actually taxstars. Hardcore taxstars. I've seen all their other videos.
And although they try to depict that they ditched the girls in the middle of nowhere without paying them for their services, they are actually paid beforehand, and act that whole scenario out.
I can't believe these hardcore taxstars actually enjoy doing this kind of stuff.


Party-pooper.

From digg comments:
You guys know these tax bus videos are staged, right?
Those random chicks are actually taxstars. Hardcore taxstars. I've seen all their other videos.
And although they try to depict that they ditched the girls in the middle of nowhere without paying them for their services, they are actually paid beforehand, and act that whole scenario out.
I can't believe these hardcore taxstars actually enjoy doing this kind of stuff.
Heck I once saw a taxstar doing 3 peoples taxes at once.

You actually own that camera? Very jealous (and poor). I actually just finished shooting a short film with that camera, though my shoot was much more guerrilla-style, judging from those pictures (I had a crew of three guys, and of course, no one was paid -- and at the very end of the last day, an overnight shoot, one of the actors had a complete MELTDOWN. After we were done, there were a couple of lines I wanted to get from him, and he completely flipped out and then disappeared. It was about 5:00 AM, we were shooting in an office in the middle of nowhere, and the only trace of him were footprints in the snow going out the parking lot and all the way down the road. He emailed me a couple days later to apologize, but that was pretty bizarre, to say the least).

A minibar and tuxedo-clad butler in the middle of nowhere... awesome video.

no, but you can't grow weed for free either. light, water, nutrients... I mean unless you have some pasture out in the middle of nowhere and you don't mind shwag outdoor dirt weed. Otherwise maintaining proper PH levels, nutrients and other variables that determine the quality of the plant isn't free.

Fred: He is inthe middle of nowhere so he could try driving for fun.

Here comes some german insight:

The setup is: An identical room on the other side, and no mirror but just glass.
The "reflected" girl is acutally a twin of hers who copies her moves. (Hence the slow movements to get maximum accuracy.)
You can see it is not 100% accurate in some places, but definitely enough to freak the victims out.

Could do an entire translation if someone requests it but the story transports mostly through the baffled looks on the peoples faces.

Judging from the presenters voice this is from the german show "Verstehen Sie Spass?" with Frank Elstner.

I remember they did a few bits with twins or even triplets.
In one they ordered a huge menu at a restaurant, ate it up, went to the bathroom and switched with their empty stomached twins who then ordered the same again. And ate it!

I´ll try and find one other clip they did with a stoplight in the middle of nowhere.

Edit: Should have read comments first. I guess the explanation is already there.

eric and joe:

While I obviously can't offer proof of anything I can say this:
1) This is in the middle of nowhere
2) The camera is centered on the explosion
3) The only places in Iraq with cameras would be embassies and the such. Bases might gave gotten more advanced while I was there, but I've never seen one with a camera on it's gate.

I put my emphasis on two because it's all too convenient to have a security cam get footage that good.

"Anti-smoking laws, for example, are put in place to protect the rights of non-smokers not to limit the rights of smokers"
Anti-smoking laws for restaurants you mean? I support that restaurants have the option of not allowing smoking, so if a person wants to go into a smoke free restaurants they can, or if a person wants to build a smoke free bar. But according to the canadian laws, if I wanted to go build a bar in the middle of nowhere, allow smoking, and put giant signs everywhere saying 'PEOPLE SMOKE HERE', I can't do that. How is that not taking away rights? How the hell is that enforcing rights? People who don't smoke have the option of not going into a smokers bar.
Or do you mean the sin taxes? Because how the hell is charging smokers more protecting non-smokers rights? Or how is it doing anything but charging more because in the end it will cost the health system more?
And seatbelts? Maybe you don't live in a country with a full health system, but they do justify increasing seatbelt laws because it hurts the health system

wtf are we doing out there, manning some completely worthless little shitpile in the middle of nowhere. what a waste.

Sorry for delays everyone - I will have very little access to internet until August (as I may have mentioned somewhere before, I'm treeplanting in the middle of nowhere) so please have patience until then. Thanks!

fair enough, fair enough. I'll admit I've only been raving for 10 years, definitely not as old school as some. I'm also from Halifax, an overgrown fishing village of a city, in the middle of nowhere, so perhaps I'm easily impressed. Although, I do travel to montreal every now and again, and see some moves there.

Anyway, I guess my point is, this is a great video, and if you've seen better, then sift them. if you have better, but it's a self-link issue, send me a message and i'd be happy to sift them for you.

I'm leaving the sift soon for the summer (treeplanting, in the middle of nowhere), and I wanted to make sure I promoted this one before I forgot.