May 2012
1 post
March 2012
2 posts
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t...
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry (via hossgifford)
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
4 posts
Five Factor Personality Model →
Extraversion, Emotional Stability, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Openness to Experience
In some ways not editing yourself would be like a sculptor dropping some clay...
– Louis C.K. in answer to someone asking about his editing his own show, Louis (via reedit: permalink). This mirrors the way I think about writing the code for the sites I design.
Punk Disney Princesses « thaeger →
The text on the site is a little on the German side for me, but the Punk Rock Princesses are totally awesome.
November 2011
4 posts
The Nietzsche Family Circus →
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
This is fascinating →
Composite Photograph Made from 500 Self-Portraits
Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker →
The more complete the picture of his actual personality becomes, the less clear it becomes whether he was a Good Guy or a Bad Guy. But the one thing that is clear, is that he was anything but a perfect man.
And if you learn nothing else from his life, you should learn that you can achieve greatness despite your faults. And if you can figure it out, because of them.
October 2011
3 posts
Went running on the treadmill today for the first time after being sick for over a week. I felt exactly like this.
Twitter is all about “simplicity in a world of complexity,
– Twitter CEO Costolo on Apple, Privacy, Free Speech and Google; Far From IPO - Digits - WSJ
August 2011
3 posts
Flooby Nooby: The Art of Glen Keane →
Favorite annotation on this Disney Animation sketch? “Hips Wider” /via @cathicks
God created this world because after you know everything and are everything, the only thing that’s left is to help others.
Ok, brain, can I go back to sleep now?
Every Eels album is my favorite Eels album.
June 2011
2 posts
Louis C.K. on Being A Father →
“You run a landscaping business and you can’t dress & feed a four-year-old? Take it on!” ~ Louis
May 2011
4 posts
Status for the weekend
Successes: 9
Accidents: 1 Helluvalot
Tantrums: 4ish
Overall assessment of the program: Bullshit
Thanks for following. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
Tally for today
Successes: 3
Accidents: lost count
Tantrums/Melt-downs: 3
How’m I doin, Coach?
Tally so far: 8 accidents, 2 successes. Not too bad, I guess.
Thank You by Cee Lo Green on Devour.com →
April 2011
3 posts
Blake Griffin's 214 Dunks on Devour.com →
Practice makes perfect.
Badminton Jedi on Devour.com →
Lightsabers. Never not funny.
March 2011
1 post
Compassion Pit →
Learned about this site at SXSW. Interesting service that matches an anonymous Ventor with an anonymous Listener. So you can either vent about whatever or you can listen to someone vent. Fascinating.
February 2011
4 posts
January 2011
25 posts
Do work that you enjoy so you can be good at what you love.
– You Are What You Eat | Trent Walton
Mr. Mom Summary
Mr. Mom has surrendered. Katie got home this morning and I went back to work. I really enjoyed spending time with our kids. They were relatively well behaved for the week and we did lots of fun stuff. But I didn’t enjoy having to entertain my lovely kids for what seemed like all 24 hours of a day.
In answer to the question of “Did it go well?” I’d have to give a qualified...
Oh, nevermind
– Me
The Best Laid Plans
I’m nerdy for a lot of reasons, but one of the nerdier things I like to do is look up origins of common phrases. Today I decided to look up “The Best Laid Plans.” Sometimes people say that when things go wrong, “Well, you know, the best laid plans …”
So, it turns out that is from a poem. This may not be a surprise to some of the smarter set. Me? I thought it...
Day Two of Mr. Mom
Added dinner to the list of meals I feed my kids! Tomorrow is the super bonus round because I’ve got to get the 4 year old to preschool on time.
Day One of Mr. Mom
Got the kids to church on time & ready. Fed the kids breakfast & lunch (2 out of 3’s not bad). In bed only an hour and a half after bedtime. Not bad.
The older I get, the more money I’m willing to spend on socks.
– Me
Context-Free Reenactment from a Conversation I Had Earlier Today
“This sock doesn’t fit!”
Hell is Other Religions
There was a period of my life during which I was on a mission. This mission was to help people understand the life changing concepts of what it actually means to understand the word irony. But I’m not talking about the meaning of irony today. What I’m talking about today is something deeply ironic.
There was another period of my life during which I was on another mission. This mission...
Pragmatism
Someone once called me ‘pragmatic.’ And I responded, “HEY! I don’t know what that means.” He said it meant that I was practical. I thanked him and went on my way. This man was the town drunk. A few days after our conversation, he ‘cleaned up’ his front yard by lighting it on fire.
Which brings me to my point: I was recently revisiting what pragmatic meant...