Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
A few months ago, my wife went on a kick where we watched the first few seasons of the TV show Dallas, rented on DVD from Blockbuster Online. If you watch 2-3 episodes a day of anything, you can't but help become a little obsessed. So when ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
I'm a fan of the Fail Blog, and the recent Sign Design Fail included a Google Maps StreetView link to Concord, NC, a suburb of Charlotte. They have streetview there? Apparently. I zoomed out to the entire USA and they have covered a TON of cities, many ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
As part of my husbandly duties on Mother's day, I did some cleaning and came across my pin collection. Yes, I went through a phase (that's apparently over - keep reading for details) where I would collect pins from the places I traveled to. I kept them in a little ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
I mentioned music in each of the last two posts as a digitizable creation that people enjoy enough to pay for. So what is it about music that is so great? I've been asking myself this question for years, and now seems like the time to try and ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
I've been quiet since the birth of my second daughter 3 weeks ago. A little too quiet for my taste, so here's a quick personal post (apologies to those anticipating my usual hardcore technical content).
Lots of people write their impressions as a first time parent, but there's not much to ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Something very delightful on a Friday afternoon:
Go ahead, try it, it's fun! (If I'm not #1 when you click it's YOUR fault for not linking to me more often! :) )
That was one of my New Year's Resolutions that's now resolved (be the #1 search result on Google for ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
I'm up at night watching Ice Age 2: The Meltdown and in the special features, there are set of fake 50s style documentaries on the different animals in the movie. The first one is called:
Sloths: Natures Loveable Lisper
Thanks to a wonderful naming idea from 50 years ago, we have ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Once you've read a little of Seth Godin, you feel like anything new he writes is something you could have written. There are just two problems:
You didn't write it
You're not Seth Godin
Here's my latest "I'm not Seth Godin so all I can do is comment" thought on his recent ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
With that time of the year where people mail in easy posts summarizing the "Top 10 Posts I've Written" or their "5 New Years Resolutions", there's been something conspicuously absent from reflections on 2007.
Kathy Sierra, one of the best bloggers period, suddenly and completely quit blogging and vanished from the ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
For the first time, I got to play in the snow with my daughter. Sometimes the simple pleasures are the most fulfilling.
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