‘Stranger Danger’ and the Decline of Halloween – "We can kill off Halloween, or we can accept that it isn't dangerous and give it back to the kids. Then maybe we can start giving them back the rest of their childhoods, too." Amazing Beans: Black Lentils/Kidney/Garbanzo – Giving this a shot soon. YOU are Superman – Mamapedia™ Voices – “If eight park moms and one visionary principal could pull our Read More ...
Mick Foley penned a great guest post for GeekDad on “The Talk”: Have a talk with your kids. Tell them about some of the unfortunate realities of life, and assure them that you’ll be there for them in good times and in bad, in sickness in health. Let them know that a parent’s love is indeed unconditional and that they can turn to you in any situation. Just don’t let Read More ...
Twister MC has some good advice on what to do about your passwords and protecting your accounts with multiple passwords, but… Remembering multiple passwords suck, especially the harder they are, but it’s important that you take your security into your own hands. There’s an easy way around that–come up with your own “password algorithm” and remember that instead of the actual passwords. Here’s an example: Begin all of your passwords Read More ...
Today’s event hosted by Microsoft and Facebook highlighted some changes coming to Bing that will factor in your social group opinions, Facebook “Likes”, into your search results. That’s great, and it’s definitely a step in the right direction, but… Just because your FB friends like something doesn’t mean it’s something you would like. Being friends with someone doesn’t necessarily mean you respect their opinion on sushi or books. How about Read More ...
Top 5 things to HATE about Marathon Runners -Ha! Best list since “Stuff White People Like”. I made every annoying thing on this list! Amusing Ourselves to Death – Awsum. Higher education bubble poised to burst – "The people running America's colleges and universities have long thought they were exempt from the laws of supply and demand and unaffected by the business cycle. Turns out that's wrong." Market: Over 12 Read More ...
Ok, not really in this instance, but a couple of years ago I wrote a little post on why I give full articles in my feed. I think that, at least for the time it was written, this was a reasonable and logical notion. Things are different now. At the time, RSS was the best thing going. For many of us, it still is. I love RSS and Google Reader Read More ...
If you go door-to-door campaigning, or if you have people going door-to-door for you, it’s probably not a good idea to wear mirrored sunglasses. You may be knocking on doors in an area that is safe for your candidate, simply reminding people to get out and vote on election day, but even if those people agree with (most) of your positions, there’s a chance they’ll be distracted and put a Read More ...
Speechless. The American Postal Workers Union has extended its internal election after thousands of ballots appeared to have gotten lost . . . in the mail. I can hear it now: “We’ve reviewed your X-Rays and have concluded that they never arrived in the mail. Please go back to the end of the 6 month waiting list for more X-Rays.” “But why couldn’t they just email the X-Rays? Why can’t Read More ...
My buddy IB Del.icio.us’d this for me…a good read (and there’s a podcast too). First of all, let me say I’m glad something like this could never happen in our country: The only reason they enter the picture now — or ever — is because in 1992, there happened to be a new finance minister who knew nothing about economics. So the gist of the story is that these guys Read More ...
First, let me say that this was a very well run race. Everything went smoothly as far as I could tell, there was a small army of very supportive and helpful volunteers, and the course was set up as a great venue for spectators to view the race. I’m not sure about the accuracy of the distances, but I’ll get to that later. In the end, that doesn’t really matter–everyone Read More ...
It’s been four years since I’ve done an organized triathlon. Ick…that means four years of no open-water swimming. It also means four years of not packing for a triathlon or setting up a transition spot. I’m probably overthinking this, but I thought it would be a good idea to make my packing list official, that way I can make notes as I go and also refer back to it for Read More ...
