Archive for November, 2008

Brain chart

November 21st, 2008

The kids have a behavior chart in their classrooms and each of them has a clip with their name on it. They “clip up” for good behavior and “clip down” when they get into trouble… Me: So, how was school today? Did you clip up? Son: No, I clipped down… But! But, Dad! Clipping down [...]

Learning the guitar, a progress report

November 19th, 2008

I started playing late-August of this year and I try to practice a little every day. I still love playing it. It’s a very relaxing hobby. This is a little bit of I’m Looking Through You by The Beatles.

A new way to wake up the kids

November 18th, 2008

I need to enunciate more clearly or Jott is going to get me in trouble with the wife… I said “Opera,” not “Barbara.”

In the age of Google, who cares about the BBB?

November 17th, 2008

I just got off the phone with the Better Business Bureau. They called to ask if I wanted to become a member. I thought about it for a second and couldn’t think of a single reason I would want to. The guy might as well have been trying to sell me encyclopedias or typewriter ribbon. [...]

One million visitors

November 16th, 2008

I just wrote a post on BigHugeLabs.com about how I’ve had 1,000,000 unique visitors over the past 30 days. That’s a million individual people. The more I think about it, the more it blows me away. Until the internet came along and changed everything, the only way for a person to reach a million people [...]

Recent Tweets

November 1st, 2008

My wife finds it amusing to make door-knocking sounds while I’m waiting for UPS (because she is lovely and talented and pure evil). Homework saps my will to live. Is it poor form to drink straight from the shaker? One of those days. It’s cute how the WordPress folks are trying to preemptively curtail 2.7 [...]