Today is the anniversary of when Melanie and I got married. In typical fashion, we’ve approached the anniversary with a sort of nonchalance which is atypical of what most people do. Our first anniversary was celebrated by buying a grill and then getting food to cook on it. Our second anniversary was also a grilling [...]
Jul 282010
Writing Away From Home
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Jul 272010
First of all, how do you like the slightly new look? Personally, I like it so far and look forward to touching up the header/footer a bit to make it a little more polished. As some of you may know, right now I’m sitting in a hotel room in a suburb of Madison, WI. My [...]
Last night as I was reading through a preview of my most recent post I noticed something unusual. Different, in fact. My eyes hurt. It wasn’t from what I wrote, but rather I found that the font I had been using made it difficult to read without some squinting and other uncomfortable adjustments. It began [...]
Jul 222010
I really had no intention of blogging again today but while cruising one of the blogs I frequent, I saw the unraveling of a commenter who clearly was acting like a petulant child. It was, in a word, inspiring. Well, to the point that I was inspired to create this very post. Without further ado, [...]
There’s been a fair amount happening lately at home to slow down posting on the blog. Time again for one of my famous bulleted lists. Audrey turned five months old. Melanie took some adorable pictures of her which I need to get up on the website as well. Look for that in a couple of [...]
Wednesday Music Interlude
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Jul 142010
Thought I’d put something up today about a couple of great songwriters that I’m really enjoying right now. I’ve included clips of two women writing some great music. The first clip is from Zoe Keating who does some beautiful, avant-garde cello music. I have her album One Cello x 16: Natoma which is gorgeous and [...]
Jul 082010
Where was Jimmy Carter when you needed him? I mean, really needed him. Not since Sadaam Hussain’s final “democratic” vote have we seen such blatant voter fraud, almost reaching the vaunted levels of South Carolina primaries. This year at CONvergence, it was a three way race (isn’t it always) between Ming the Merciless, the Wicked [...]
I had hoped to have something of a running commentary here about CONvergence, but alas, I found myself too cheap to pay the hotel $10 a day for internet access. I barely spent any time there anyway, so it would have been pouring money down the drain for about an hour of access all weekend. [...]
Recovery Time
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Jul 052010
I had thought that I’d just need a few hours to catch up before doing a big ol’ rundown of my CONvergence experience. Sad to say, I still feel like I’m catching up. I did finally get the little tasks I wanted to get done off the list, but writing a long blog post about [...]
Busy at the CON
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Jul 022010
Short post today. Mostly because I’ve had to resort to typing on my iPhone which blows goats, in not so many words. I’m at CONvergence right now and loving the energy here. However, it turns out that Internet connections come at a cost. I’m not motivated to shell out $10 a day to stay sort [...]
