At first I didn't understand twitter, but I've come to enjoy it. As a hobbiest writer, I appreciate the challenge of 140 characters. Strunk said to Omit needless words, but twitter advances the concept. If I have a complex or multistep thought and want to tweet it, on a geeky level I like trying to cram …
Check work email, check personal email. My seven-month-old daughter has a death grip on my thumbs as I teach her to walk and I'm scolding the twenty-two-month daughter for purposefully putting a book on the floor in our path. (Can't step on books, instant timeout) The tone of my voice switches seamlessly between encouragement and …
One of the great joys of this modern world is the ability to discover cool video that isn't perfectly current.
I had a draft of an essay in my google docs called "Being Cool is Expensive". Couple hundred words, unpolished. Then I saw "New Device Desirable, Old Device Undesirable" from the Onion, which said everything I wanted to say, but better than I could have said it. The draft will die in my unpublished folder. Also, …
Credit scores have a lot of reach into your quality of life. Luckily, I took an interest in the topic years ago and doing so helped me get my family into a home.
My lesson of the last couple of weeks is: don't start a blog right before embarking on the purchase of your first home. I thought you just turned in a coupon at FirstHomeMart, but it turns out that it's actually somewhat involved and time-consuming. My blog's not empty, it's austere!
A few years ago, I ended up on the wrong side of this response: "Wait, I love my kids! STOP TALKING ABOUT KILLING MY KIDS!" I found this a little confusing, as we weren't talking about killing anyone. However, I've since become a parent, and I can offer an explanation and translation.
I used to write a lot of fiction. Unpaid–but I approached it with everything that I had. At the time I returned to being a full-time software engineer, I was a decent writer. Some years have passed since then.
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