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who do you trust?

December 2, 2009

This is my first entry in the Write-Of-Passage Writing Well Challenge. Like Mrs. Flinger, whose brainchild this challenge is, I like good writing. I read blogs to get a sense of the personalities behind them, but mostly I read them for stories. Well told stories. Yes, this includes using reasonably good English and not murdering [...]

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when to intervene?

November 30, 2009

My grandma would yell “Don’t run!” whenever she spotted me moving at any pace faster than a stroll. I swear she said it every time I saw her. I thought she was being ridiculous. Clearly she didn’t want me to have any fun. Maybe I should blame her for my sedentary tendencies? But that’s another [...]

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barefoot in the world

November 29, 2009

I resisted reading Christopher McDougall’s Born To Run. I’d been wearing minimal footwear and reading about living, walking, and running barefoot or in minimalist shoes for over a year. Then along comes this book (and accompanying media blitz) and suddenly everybody’s like, “Hey, regular shoes are BAD! People run BAREFOOT or in these crazy TOE SHOES! [...]

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a shiny new home for my blog!

November 28, 2009

I took the plunge. I switched my blog from Blogger to WordPress, and full-on hosted WordPress, at that. Got myself a spiffy grown-up theme called Thesis, and even wrote some custom CSS and PHP. If you don’t blog, you probably don’t know what this means, or care. If you DO blog, congratulate me! It was [...]

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shameless plug — iCaroler for iPhone!

November 26, 2009

Hey. A bit off topic from my standard blog fare, but it’s my blog, and I say what goes here! My company, Seismic Games, just released our first app for iPhone: iCaroler! You can find out more about it at iCaroler.com, or go directly to the iTunes App Store and pick it up for yourself! [...]

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bam bam

November 24, 2009

We’ve never been really big on nicknames for our kids. I mean, we call our kids by pet names — Owen is often “O,” “Little Dude,” “Big Guy,” while Nicholas is “Baby,” “Little,” etc. But neither has really had an official nickname. Now one of them does. From this point forward, Nicholas shall officially be [...]