Category Archives: Family

What’s it like to be smart?

What’s it like to be smart?  Some quick thoughts, with a twist that surprised even me.

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Spinning Wheels of Fire

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As promised, some photos of the fun at the Supercross:   And for your viewing pleasure, a moving picture, starting 10 seconds before the final race.  Here you can see the insane fireballs and what-not.

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Revising MuddyHorse

I’m moving to wordpress to administer my whole site, ultimately.  So this is a bit in progress.  I’ll restore all the bits in a bit.  You can still find content on to the old blog if you want to, though … Continue reading

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Third Day

So, here I am, sitting in a San Francisco apartment, overlooking a trendy restaurant scene. With a macbook on my lap. I feel like I just need to tweet something.  Oh, it all makes sense now!

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I Love Apple

I love apple.  You?  Apple very Square, yet not square!  Tasty, and not tasty. And so on.  Here are some very quick impressions from almost two days.

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A Small Token of Our Appreciation

The Company was pleased with our performance last year.  So they went against everything we’ve been teaching our kids, and gave us candy pills. That’s Jelly beans on the left, mints on the right.  Or so I hope.

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Well, they're now on the list, anyway…

Alternate titles for this post: How Gamestop ruined my Valentine’s Day Gamestop Made Me Do It I’m an Idiot

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Biting the bullet

Well, we’re going to try out the WildBlue through Dish Network for internet.  *Sigh*.  It feels like a defeat.  I have only heard good things about Satellite internet from one person, and all the anecdotes online are negative.  But at … Continue reading

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Right up my alley…

Play Achievement Unlocked This game makes me so happy.  Did I mention that I got all 1250 achievement points in Mass Effect?

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Return to the Land of Unhappy Zombies

Memorial day weekend, we broke the ban on Wal-mart.  Why, you might ask?  Because of Nibbler.

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What's new is old again…

Note: This post is probably wildly uninformed. Welcome to weblogs, everybody! Then: Bush was reviled and derided for telling people to “Go shopping” after 9/11/2001. Now: Americans are ruining the economy by saving their money! Then: Americans don’t save enough. … Continue reading

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Good Luck, Mr. President

I just want to wish incoming President Obama all the best. He has made a lot of noise about changing the way things are done, and I hope he can stick to that. Along those lines, he has made a … Continue reading

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Last minute…

Just to get a post in Dec 2008, I’ll drop a quick post here. That means I’m doing regular updates, right? 😉 I have some draft game reviews sitting around, I’ll get to them soon. Have a good 2009!

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Linked to LinkedIn

This is a silly, pointless blog post to see how LinkedIn deals with blog posts.

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Loose lips sink… gaming?

One less secret I have to keep:  see Riot Games to Summon ‘League of Legends’ in 2009 – MarketWatch.  That’s for anyone who is curious about what my friend Scott has been up to and/or the game I interviewed to … Continue reading

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Lost the Plot

This post is sparked by the recent SlashDot article: How Close Were US Presidential Elections?.  And the recent presidential and vice-presidential debates.  And listening to folks in general.  Just some observations regarding political beliefs and behavior:  people don’t listen to … Continue reading

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It's all in my head

I frequently say lots of very strange things that seem unrelated to the conversation at hand.  That’s because I’m running a quite detailed conversation in my head at the same time.  I’ll try different comments and responses, and evaluate the … Continue reading

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Backported entries…

I just imported a bunch of my posts from theconans.com so as to preserve them here.  Some of them are nice, like favorite sci-fi books.  Scroll back a bit and check it out.

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Thought for the day: 2008-08-06

My daughter asked me last night: Daddy, what if the whole world was clay except for chain saws?

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Lots of photos available…

I finally got the bulk of our photos tagged and uploaded to Muddyhorse Photos.  Enjoy!  Note:  the tag plugin for Gallery is a bit rough, but that’s what we have for now.

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