Tag: parenting
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Bits of Nostalgia and Nature, Some World News, and a Really Big Wombat
Full day at the office followed by a full evening of more work on a freelance project I had hoped would be much further ahead than it is now. This whole “burning out” thing happens much more quickly than it did 20 years ago. What’s up with that? Oh, yeah… human… aging… right. Can’t run…
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Weather, Ice Bucket Muppets, Free Range Kids, More From Furguson, and Some Movies
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge continues to spread (and pull in tons of money and awareness). Now we’re up to Muppets like Cookie Monster and Kermit the Frog participating. I continue to be amused. (And, in some cases, impressed.) There’s still lots of problems in Furguson… and there are so many media-types there to get…
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Self-Image, Coffee is for Closers, An Economic Last Stand, Whiskey Lies, and Other Things
The big non-shock in the feed today is that every level of Comcast is all about sales. This hot on the heels of an 8+ minute recording of someone trying to cancel their cable service. All that sales, of course, came at the cost of actual customer service–something cable companies are notoriously bad at to…
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Discrimination, Diversity, Voices and Images From Beyond, Living Above Venus, and the Impeccable Bad Piper
This came through the feed late today: “Without a robust religious exemption,” they wrote, “this expansion of hiring rights will come at an unreasonable cost to the common good, national unity and religious freedom.” That’s the justification, in part, for a group of businesses (who claim to be religious) for asking that they be exempt…
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Working the Pole, Cat vs Lizards, Star Trek Rumors, Disturbing Statistics, New Games, and a Spike-covered Bear Hunting Suit
Ridiculously busy day, again. And my time at home after has been largely spent watching videos that have come out of E3… so many awesome looking games that I’ll likely never play (and, if I did, likely would get quickly frustrated with). I remember when computer games first became “a thing.” Right back around when…