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Conversations I'll someday have with my daughter that will make little to no sense to her no matter how much I try to explain

"I remember the day we got cable" "I remember the day I finally got broadband internet" "The Safety Dance was the first 45 single I bought" "My brother got one of the first CD players on our block" "I owned many,

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Thoughts from the bottom of a ditch after veering off the road while reading email on my iPhone while riding my road bike near a farm

Man, there sure are a lot of beer bottles and cans down here. If my 18 year old self could see me today at 36, I'm sure he'd want to know why I'm still doing stupid shit like getting so engrossed with my phone

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Perchance to dream

Slug, originally uploaded by visualdensity. I had a dream last night that we solved the energy crisis by forcing the animal kingdom to create energy for us, but the trick was picking an animal ugly and unlikeable enough that the least number of people opposed the enslavement. So in the

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The Culture War on Halloween

The culture war on Halloween, originally uploaded by mathowie. Halloween is a time-honored holiday steeped in the traditions of sharing with your neighbor, celebrating childhood with candy and decorations, and generally having a fun time as the days begin to grow shorter. There is also a culture war that seeks

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TLFT*: Michael Phelps

Watching some recent olympic track and field events still sitting on TiVo, I'm finally starting to understand how amazing it was for Michael Phelps to swim 17 races and win 8 medals and break multiple records over the span of just a few short days. For some reason

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Becoming an old (blogging) man

Today I realized that I'm part of the "old guard" of blogging because I remember a time when blogging was so new that very few sites had comments (it seems like MetaFilter was one of the first few?) and after a few years when they started

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Eleven

After upgrading my first mac (powerbook) to another powerbook, then to an iMac and finally to a Mac Pro, I realized five years of using the Migration Assistant had finally run its course. Various basic parts (mostly Keychain Access) of Leopard stopped functioning properly and since everything ran great on

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Egg McMuffin inventor dies at 89

Oh shit: Egg McMuffin inventor dies at 89. Anyone that knows me knows that I'm the biggest fan of this man's invention. I can't think of a more fitting tribute than imagining Father Guido Sarducci/Lazlo Toth is spreading jam on a McMuffin, just

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A used car scam I once almost fell for

I saw someone I know selling their old car on craigslist and it reminded me of the time I sold my last car using similar means. I almost fell for a couple guys that showed up, test drove the car, then tried to buy it at a vastly discounted price.

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What if cupcakes could somehow become more awesome? HOWTO

I'm a big fan of cupcakes, huge fan. 30lbs overweight fan. Anyway, a couple months ago, my wife gave her students some cupcakes and someone BLEW MY MIND with a simple hack that solved one of cupcakes' few failings: sometimes there's just too much frosting,

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Impassioned plea

I open my email this morning and there's a long message from a vaguely familiar name. It's dozen paragraphs long but I start to read it. The first couple paragraphs explain that I've connected with this person in the past either through some hipster

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Snigglets 2.0

Sometimes I like to make up words to match situations. Here's today's made up word/phrase: All-You-Can-Amnesia (n) Common form of memory loss often found in food service industry waitstaff. Especially prevalent in restaurants that don't write anything down when you order, often resulting

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Word of the day (that I made up)

Clothundrum (n) wittynerdyhumorousconundrumclothing

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Words to live by

I would suggest that all of you find your "accordion" -- that thing that makes you try out life's little detours -- and use it to practice your own random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. The rewards are astonishing. -- Joey DeVilla

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National Writers Workshop in Wichita

I'm in Kansas for the National Writers Workshop put on by the Poynter people. They asked me last summer if I wanted to come talk about online stuff and I said yes, but to give you an idea of how much of a lightweight I am at this

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Digg revolt

Pretty interesting community story taking place on Digg today (as much as I can gather, after Andre showed me): * user makes a post on digg linking to the encryption key that is used to crack HD DVD protection * story is pulled, user is banned, then story goes up about banning

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Thoughts going through my mind while at the dentist, listening to my iPod and on nitrous for the first time

Oh my god I love this song. Love it. The part in the chorus with the drums? Awesome! I totally need to see these guys live, I bet they're so good. God this song rocks. Man, it sounds like someone really far away is getting a gnarly scraping,

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Basketball half bakery ideas

I thought of these during March Madness games, but neglected to post it until now, so here goes, my wishlist for technology additions to the sport of basketball: 1. Put RFID tags inside the soles of players' shoes as well as embedded in the floor. Take the "3

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Decursivication (new word)

keyBob attributed his chicken scratch-like note writing to the process of decursivication.

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Not quite so modern after all

What is most amazing about Room & Board and Design Within Reach is not that they offer unique modern furnishings for your home, it's that they're based on a business model from the early 1900s. They're catalog stores, plain and simple. You go in,

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Quote from the Hodge that I just found while ego searching...

look it up -- Books: The Areas of My Expertise - washingtonpost.com It's good to know I've had an impact.

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flickr, always innovating

ho ho ho hat/beard is the best wacky easter egg feature ever. Try adding it as a note to your photos.

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Do you realize Digital Cameras used to suck?

I was looking through some old photos I took from 1998-2002, some using a 1 megapixel camera while the rest were from a 3 megapixel camera. I had seen these images dozens of times before, and remembered them as well-composed, sharp photos. I was really getting into photography back then

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BBQ 2.0

Let it be known from this day forward: barbecues (BBQ) shall henceforth be known as meat-up meet-ups. The abbreviation MUMU will also suffice.

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testing...

Just testing out MT 3.3...