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It’s one of those things that I thought was cool a while ago and then dropped it by the wayside. Now, that I’m looking back on all my posts from earlier this year, I find it pretty entertaining: especially the post about “waiting for IT to fix my harddrive.” More on that story in the [...]

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Got an email from the in-laws this morning. . . that is the edge of Bob and Kathy’s lawn in Southern Colorado. Bob snapped the photo from the kitchen window and had this to say: It has been a “wild week” here in our backyard. The black bear photos were taken an hour ago. He [...]

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Just got back from the Barnes and Noble chain bookstore with the following books: Buy, Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds (Susan Gregory Thomas) Spook Country (William Gibson); and Issue 10 of Make Magazine ($14.99 no wonder O’Reilly Media is doing so well). The grand total: $64.17. I was so [...]

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Just got the new Nintendo DS Brain Age 2 game at Walmart, you know, to help keep my mind as young and fit as my body. And after taking the first “Paper, Scissors, Rock” test the esteemed Dr. Kawashima told me that I have the mind of a feeble 57 year old. On the original [...]

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(via Gizmodo via TUAW)

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It’s odd to not know someone who has had total control over your professional life for most of the past year, but I really don’t know Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore. I read her quotes and get the sense that she is living in some kind of publishing past, when large brands meant something, and [...]

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Kevin Wilkins’ at Good Problem finds all the rare grooves.

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For the past five days we’ve had no consistent hot water. Each morning, when I get up, I’ve had to go outside into the hot water closet, pull out the push-mower and the rake, remove the cover from the hot water heater so I can see the pilot light (or rather, where the pilot light [...]

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I’m currently reading the Library of America’s new collection of four Philip K. Dick novels (Four Novels of the 1960s). The book includes the Hugo award winning The Man in the High Castle and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and Ubik). Most people know Dick as the guy [...]

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While walking with Leah the afternoon before Case was born I saw this sticker on the back of a SBC junction box. . . . Interesting commentary.

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