The First Female Doctor

September 9, 2011
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During VEDA, my friend Kitty announced her goal of being the first female to play the eponymous character on Doctor Who. She expressed her desire in this video (link opens in a new window). Earlier today, my friends @Dutchface and @tomfromhr and I had a little bit of “back and forth” about this topic (starting [...]

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A letter to my unborn daughter

September 8, 2011
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Tomorrow (September 9th) is the due date of my unborn baby girl (who is currently nameless). Today my wife sent me a link to a list of 50 Rules for Dads of Daughters. Besides make me almost tear up at work, it got me to thinking. So here is a letter to my little baby [...]

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The Great Google Plus Experiment

September 6, 2011
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I’ve been using Google Plus since the beginning of July. I’m a big fan of it and have decided to try to make it my main “social media” platform. To test this theory out, I am going to be taking a hiatus from Facebook for the rest of the month of September, using Google Plus [...]

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That’s my philosophy, Marti

September 5, 2011
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The BEDS prompt for today is to share a “favorite quote”. Now, given that it is Labor Day, it seems only appropriate to share a quotation (quote is a verb, quotation is a noun) that is inspirational. I am not going to do that. I am totally rebellous* like that. My quotation comes from the [...]

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Suburban Annoyance

September 4, 2011

One of the biggest differences between the suburbs and the city….in the burbs, organizations (such as churches or neighborhood associations) assume all members have been there for 20+ years and “know how things are done”. In the city, details are spelled out. For example: suburban church says “nursery will be open in September”, meaning “after [...]

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Getting Wheezy

September 3, 2011
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So there’s this YouTube dude called Wheezy Waiter. I even met him a couple of weeks ago. But in spite of that, he’s really cool. And funny. Check it out. If 200,000 people watch one of his videos, Intel is going to donate a crap-ton* of money to DonorsChoose.org, which gets technology into classrooms. Where [...]

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August Recap

September 2, 2011
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I can’t believe it’s September already. This summer really went too quickly. Of course, I think we say that every September. So what did August hold for me? VEDA As you are aware, in the month of August I participated in VEDA – Vlog Every Day in August. I even managed to almost do it [...]

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