Interesting charitable group

This year for Christmas, my sister went the route of making a charitable donation in our name instead of giving Wiley and I Christmas presents. She choose a very interesting group to donate to, called Donors Choose. They accept proposals from teachers in the NYC area requesting things they would like for their classrooms (these seem to range from basic supplies to equipment for after school clubs), based around things they need or specific things they would like to teach. As a donor, you can look through the proposals and choose to fund the ones that interest you the most. I've spent this morning lookig through the proposals, and found about 10 that if I could, I'd fund in their entirety.

It seems like a pretty nifty group - you can find something that matches your interest, and it feels a look more personal than sending a check off to a large charity. Of course, it helps that schools are a soft spot for me.

Anyway, this seemed like such a neat idea, I just wanted to tell other people about it.

First Night

I just talked to my Dad, and he's going to come up to Boston for New Year's Eve. We're going to do First Night activities for the afternoon, then he'll watch Widget for the evening while Wiley and I go to the party that Dave Shih is having.

Anyone who's Boston-ish want to join us for the afternoon? I expect we'll be getting downtown around 12:30 or 1:00, and probably mostly sticking around the Hynes area. Heck, anyone want to come to Dave's party (he said we could bring random people if we wanted *grin*).

I think this is going to be a lot of fun!