A geek and a father tries to empty out the mess that is his brain. Watch your step - it’s messy in here…
I’ve said more than once that thinking can be bad.
Not all thinking, but over-thinking.
Taking a moment, considering your possibilities, that’s usually a good start.
But you shouldn’t lose yourself in thought at the expense of action.
Even if you don’t know what to do, sometimes you just need to shrug your shoulders and throw the dice. If [...]
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Several months ago, me and Jenn and the kids were driving down the road, and I heard a question from the back seat.
“Daddy, what are you afraid of?”
“Well, I’m afraid of things happening to you guys. That’s why me and your mom are so protective of you.”
“But dad, what about YOU though? What are [...]
I love laptops.
I used to hate them – when I had to fix them. But nowadays I just get good warranties. The perks of how and where you can use laptops are just too friggin good.
Case in point:
I’m in bed. Naked. Lying on my side, typing in the dark.
My beautiful wife has her bare breasts [...]
OK – another cheat.
I had to update my resume today.
Well, skew my resume.
When they are wanting to send you off on a new contract, sometimes you get to “emphasize the relevant”. In other words, add a bunch of bullshit to make you sound more like the person they are looking for. I know – everyone [...]
from Saturday January 21, 2006 – 07:32pm (CST)
Gmail rules. Just friggin rules. I’m sure most of you know what it is, but for those who don’t, it’s Google’s email system. I’ll spare you the majority the geek stuff, but it’s at 2.6 GB of storage space and growing, it automatically saves back-and-forth e-mail conversations [...]
OK – I’m cheating on this one.
Normally I type these out especially for the blog.
This story, though, I have told many a time.
So I pulled it out of an e-mail, and cleaned it up for public scrutiny.
Some of you have heard it, so feel free to move along and save a few minutes of your [...]
This is still so weird.
I have nothing to say.
Nothing important at least.
But I’m going to anyway, I guess.
Big surprise, eh?
I’m pretty relaxed. Life is good.
I’m back on the couch again.
Green Day was on FuseTV on satellite TV in concert.
I love most of the new stuff just as much as the old. Maybe I’ll mature a [...]
This is an odd place.
I guess I should narrow that down a bit, eh?
How about good old planet Earth.
Actually that’s not really that odd. I know a lot of people are still convinced we are in some unique place in the universe. I like Carl Sagan’s view on that. Billions of galaxies, each with billions [...]
There are days when it feels like my head is going to pop.
Pow.
Boom.
Tears of blood.
Cracks in my skull.
Brain going thud thud thud.
It’s not pain, exactly. Just noise.
And it’s not loud noise. More like quantity.
I’ll start thinking about this, then move on to that.
But the first doesn’t really go away. My brain keeps going.
So I’m thinking [...]
from Friday December 30, 2005 – 04:15am (CST)
One of my first ventures into blogging…
I’m feeling adventurous. And kinda drunk.
How did I get here?
That’ll be fun. Let’s see if I can do this all Reader’s Digesty.
I was born in 1971. Which means I’m now old enought to forget how old I am. People ask [...]