Posted in Real Estate on Nov 19th, 2010
Seven months ago, after seeing over 80 places and spending two years looking, M and I finally bought our first place. After that much time and all that effort, it felt like a huge step for us. And it was—we were excited to own our own place, build some equity, and officially become grownups. Seven [...]
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Posted in Creativity, Uncategorized on Nov 15th, 2010
Wordle is a fun site that takes data and turns it into words. You can input a web address or other kinds of data to see what it looks like in tag-cloud format. Here is what this site looks like: Yikes! Way too much cell phone stuff and way too little about money. I better [...]
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Posted in Tips, Writing on Nov 8th, 2010
I’ll make this short—I don’t have much time. It’s 3:12AM and my wife is feeding our ten-week old daughter. In a few minutes she’ll burp up some milk and I’ll have to stop writing to make sure she doesn’t choke and die. When a life hangs in the balance, trying to find time to write [...]
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Posted in Gadget Lust on Nov 5th, 2010
That picture is of my very first smartphone: the T-Mobile G1. Weeks before it even came out (two years ago) I knew every single thing there was to know about it. I told myself I was being thorough with my research, but honestly? I was obsessed and I had a case of the gimmes. Two [...]
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