Image via Wikipedia I spoke at my high school graduation. Along with our valedictorian and a few other people who applied for the job, I gave a speech that was mostly a rehash of my application to get into college. I reprint it here to make sure that the absolute …
The wind must have grabbed it while we were out. It must have taken hold of the oversized umbrella and flipped the entire table, shattering the glass top directly on the deck. It must have done this because when we came home we found the thousands of pieces and the …
Image by Getty Images via @daylife The shipment of iPads came in. The ones that my father was looking forward to. The one that meant a message from Apple was was sent out to his email address. I was notified because he was notified. And I went and picked it …
Image via Wikipedia During my first year of college, I decided that I was going to work out every day. And I did. I ate whatever I wanted, but I worked out for at least an hour. I would start off by running on the treadmill or doing the stationary …
Image via Wikipedia My children take turns with the best of them. They have a strong instinct for when it is their turn, but they will (if prompted and given a reason to do so, sometimes) give other people a chance to play with an important toy or go down …
Image by sociomantic via Flickr Many people are uninterested in social networking. For as many people that are joining Facebook every day (about 500 million total have done so), there is an enormous amount of people who want nothing to do with it. Moreover, there are even more people who …
Image via Wikipedia For my tenth birthday party, I received a set of black roller-skates. Not rollerblades or inline roller hockey skates, but rather old school roller-skates with different colored neon wheels. I was cool. I rode my skates around the local roller rink as much as I possibly could, …
When I jailbroke my ipad, I pretty much had two goals in mind. The first was to see what multitasking really looked like on an iDevice and to get the TV Out feature for all applications. Both of these things will be available in future releases of the OS, so …
Image via Wikipedia My children have trigger words. Certain phrases cannot be said in their presence. If these words are uttered within earshot, the response is so immediate and severe that you will wonder if there will ever be another state of mind for them. These are words like “ice …
I know the answer to this question is obvious. I know that pictures are beautiful and artful and they capture perfect moments in time. I get that. They will always exist regardless of how easy it gets to take and share video. The still image will still reign supreme in …