CALLING ALL NERDS!

 Feb, 27 - 2010   Technology

RUN, DON’T WALK, TO WATCH THIS VIDEO! (Then go watch the other 4 on the website https://www.symphonyofscience.com/.) Literally, one of the coolest things I’ve seen in weeks.Even if you’re not a nerd, if you have any interest in music and autotune, this is really pretty amazing.


I have a ton of work to do right now, which is probably why I’m procrastinating and surfing the internet.  But, that did mean I found this interesting article and can now share it.  The punchline? We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, […]


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f you might recall, it was early September that I posted pictures of the demolition of the back of our house.  One might reasonably expect almost 6 months to be plenty of time for an addition.You’d be wrong.  They’re still working on it.  We’ve now given up on dusting and adopted a strategy of really, […]


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It was for $10.15, and I’m very proud.  I am now a paid, published author. The Amazon image for my Kindle ebook: Outsourcing My Education In fact, out of the 394,993 books for sale at the Kindle store, mine is squarely in the top third of sales, ranked 127,224th overall.  (That’s what 32 sales since […]


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I guess that was the easy part.  We’re now going to spend the next ~4-5 months under construction as we add a master suite, breakfast room, powder room, and garage.  Luckily the whole outside part (framing/exterior walls) should be weather tight in about 5-6 weeks, so we won’t be freezing in December.  I can’t wait […]


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So when I heard those words as an admonition from the speaker at my conference last week, it finally hit home to me that this new career of mine is maybe a little different than all the other work I’ve been doing the rest of my life.  Certainly, no one has ever used that kind […]


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10 years, 50 countries

 Jun, 05 - 2009   FamilyMeTravel

This past week has marked a couple of pretty big milestones for me, which is nice because they really belong together.  Ten years prior to Wednesday, I met my wife, Karen, at the youth hostel we were both staying at in Dublin, Ireland.  That’s us on that day with my brother Paul (who I was traveling with […]


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