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Flotsam & Jetsam

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Flotsam & Jetsam · 3d ago

Ticking Tasks off the Big List

As usual, my 4 day weekend meant it felt like less than usual was accomplished because there was a fair bit of slacking involved. When I write it all down, though, lots got done. And, since I did a poor job of prioritizing, I’ll call it a productive weekend. Here’s what I intended to do: [...]
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Flotsam & Jetsam · 5d ago

The Problem With Goals

The problem with goals is that if you don’t keep moving toward them, you can’t hope to attain them. During the Purpose Party, we worked on ways to bring our goals into focus, break down what was needed to get from now to there and start taking those steps. Bruce Elkin taught us some procedures [...]
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Flotsam & Jetsam · 1W ago

everything ebook

After promoting the Kindle app in the last post, I also wrote a piece for Life as a Human about the Ebook Brown Wrapper Revolution (hint: guilty pleasures are gaining ground) that was published this morning and our most recent episode of Those DeWolfes Podcast is All About Ebooks: If you’re curious
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Flotsam & Jetsam · 1W ago

Testing, testing.

I thought it was time to roundup some cheers and jeers for web services and apps I’ve been testing out over the last few months. Some of these are web-only, some are browser-based (Chrome), and others are mobile (Android/iOS for my ASUS EE Transformer and/or iPhone). I download a LOT of free apps an
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Flotsam & Jetsam · 2W ago

Thank you, Mr. Sendak

Three authors shaped much of my early learning, inspired me to read (and write) and fueled my imagination: Dr. Seuss, Richard Scarry, and Maurice Sendak. Most will probably remember Sendak for Where the Wild things Are, a great book but far from his only great work. Pictured are some of his little b
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Flotsam & Jetsam · 2W ago

Weekend’s End

Today is the first day in two weeks I haven’t woken myself up coughing or spent half the day with Halls lozenges in my mouth or under Nyquil’s spell. It felt really good and it capped off a good weekend. Friday, I finally took a sick day. I needed it; I ended up going back [...]
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Flotsam & Jetsam · 3W ago

Feeling Mortal Today

Most days, I don’t think about death, not in a personal way at least, but I’m old enough now that people within a few years of my age are dying more regularly. Today, a celebrity, Adam Yauch has died at 47. While that’s a little older than me, I definitely consider him a peer. As [...]
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Flotsam & Jetsam · 3W ago

Donor Status: No Match.

Yesterday, news outlets teased us with Facebook’s plan to announce a change that would SAVE LIVES. We speculated about it, having fun at Zuckerberg’s expense and promptly forgot about it. This morning the annoucement was made: Zuck was encouraging everyone to add their organ donor status to their in
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Flotsam & Jetsam · 4W ago

Channeling Edgar Allan Poe

I discovered, while poking around my docs folders, a longish, rhymed poem-in-progress. As I read it I started to tweak things here and there and eventually added several new verses. I pondered it over lunch, reading it aloud in the elevator and adding more verses, and I decided that it was definitel
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Flotsam & Jetsam · 1M ago

Cyborg Body Parts – Update

On Friday, I realized I was not going to finish even the draft of my short story by our self-imposed deadline of the 21st so I cried uncle via Facebook. There were two other confirmed writers and one possible — we were each at different stages of “in progress” but no one was completely done. [...]
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