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Ah Facebook, How do I Hate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways.

admin | February 25, 2010

So I just read a good post about why Twitter is so much better than Facebook.  And I don’t really want to offend all my FB friends but I’m going to risk it because I hate it so bad. Friends don’t get me wrong, it’s not you I hate, it’s Facebook.  Please just go get [...]

George Washington’s Rules of Civilty

admin | February 16, 2010

I have always had a kind of sixth sense of social civility.  I may not follow it that often, and when I don’t I have this feeling that I’m doing something wrong.   For example, I don’t like to walk between two people that are talking, even if they are standing on opposite sides of a [...]

Day and Night

admin | February 11, 2010

I read a lot of business columns. Most of the time I find wise people with good advice.  Like this guy.
http://www.tompeters.com/cool_friends/content.php?note=010640.php
I had a boss once (Curt Porrit) that told me that “the reason business exists is to make life better for people.  The question then becomes ‘does it make life better for the few at [...]

The Novelist

admin | February 7, 2010

Jonathan is 9 years old.  And he reads books.  Lots of books.  And he reads them fast.  I was worried that he skipped over things he didn’t understand because he reads faster than I do.  I wanted to know what kind of books he was reading so I tried to read the books that he [...]

Good Food – Bad Food

admin | January 28, 2010

So I started a new health/fitness/diet program.  I’m mostly making it up by myself but it goes something like this: Get up at 5:50AM and exercise, wait for at least an hour after exercising to eat breakfast, eat normal food but try to avoid candy and snacking on carbs, make sure I stop eating for [...]

Growing up with Technology

admin | January 18, 2010

I remember when I was growing up and we got our first microwave, first color TV, first push-button phone, first answering machine, the list goes on.
My son is turning 10 next month and I was just wondering what it is like to not be able to fathom a world without any of these things.
We just [...]

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