Archive for March, 2006

Monday, March 27th, 2006

Bike Riding

I took the kids on a bike ride to the neighborhood park. It was our first ride, and they were insanely cute. It reminded me of hose much I used to love bike riding. I rode constantly when I was younger, and through most of college. All that ended with a bang, but maybe I’ll [...]

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Friday, March 24th, 2006

Characters Welcome

While waiting for the bus today I saw the next star for USA’s “Characters Welcome” ad campaign. This gentleman was in his 60′s with mussy blond/white hair. He was adorned with: Yellow aviator sunglasses A pink oxford shirt Grey knit sport jacket A big red bowtie, disheveled Light blue running shorts Under those, thick green [...]

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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

decisions, decisions

In my next life I think I’ll come back as a monk. But I can’t decide if it will be the peaceful meditating buddhist kind or the ale drinking quarterstaff carrying kind.

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Thursday, March 16th, 2006

My Name

If I win the lottery maybe I’ll go back to school and finally get a degree. Maybe finish off my political science degree, then go on to a master’s or doctor’s degree in sociology or linguistics. My dissertation will be a massive study on why people who have only communicated with me in email, and [...]

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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006

thoughts from the field

I wonder if they did the wave at the colloseum?

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Monday, March 6th, 2006

more with the iTunes

You might think I had more interesting things to write about than itunes, but you would be wrong. And it’s just so easy to pick on this thing, supposedly designed by some of the best usability people in the world. Here’s today’s annoyance:First of all, and I know it’s a total nitpick, but what kind [...]

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Sunday, March 5th, 2006

Good Times, Good Times

Tonights load of laundry was full of: Isaac’s clothes, full of urine: We’re still working on the potty training at night My shirt, also urine: It’s not a real party until someone gets peed on. And it wasn’t even my own kid. Jane’s clothes, sprinkled with vomit: A 103 degree fever came out of nowhere, [...]

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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

Fun!

Today is the gnashing of the teeth, crying in the tea, wailing against the wind phase of development, wherein I make my perfectly wonderful application work in IE.

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