Personal

Me and Everybody Else This Year, Just Like Every Other Year

January 7, 2007

For me, the most guilt-inducing commercial on TV these days is a 30-second spot for Home Depot called Get Organized, in which a family is franticly searching their house for a list of New Year’s Resolutions that they have somehow misplaced. The irony is that Number 3 on the four-item resolutions list is “Get organized”. [...]

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God’s Speed DVD Box Set…Or Whatever It Is I’m Buying

October 24, 2006

I don’t know why I’ve never noticed this until now.

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Switching Switched to Prepaid Cell Phones

June 12, 2006

Many thanks to you all for your input. I’m happy to announce that the search is over, and Cindy and I have both gotten T-Mobile prepaid plans. I had thought that I would have to buy a new phone to replace my Cingular Nokia 6102, which is fairly new. I called a few cellular phone [...]

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Switching to Prepaid Cell Phones

June 6, 2006

We currently have a two-phone $39.99 a month plan with Cingular, made available through Cindy’s employer. The only difference between the employer-sponsored plan and a typical Cingular plan is that the employer-sponsored plan doesn’t require a two-year contract. It may be the only difference, but it’s no small difference. For two years now, Cindy and [...]

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You Are Already Naked

April 21, 2006

Todd sent me a link to Steve Jobs’ Commencement address he delivered at Standford June 12, 2005. It’s just three stories from his life. “That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories,” Jobs says, but most Mac users know that a simple, understated approach often yeilds the best results and has the greatest impact. Here’s [...]

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Showing Some Moleskine at Ikea

April 4, 2006

As Cindy mentioned, we went to the new Ikea store in Dallas (actually, it’s in Frisco, but nobody knows where that is) over the weekend. Now, for people who have access to Ikea stores, this isn’t a big deal. But for us, it was like Disney World, or the Vegas of inexpensive furniture. Just imagine [...]

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My Personal DNA Map

March 20, 2006

Via Cindy, by way Pink-Dog, per Shelley. My Personal Dna Report

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8-Year Anniversary

March 14, 2006

Cindy and I have been married for eight years as of today. And because the traditional 8-year anniversary gifts are bronze and pottery, I’ve been spending the morning planting tubes of sun tan lotion in terra cotta pots. Cindy will be so surprised! (Just kidding.) Of course, Cindy and I have never been that hip [...]

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