I pulled up to the stoplight at Congress and Riverside. My windows were down for the first time in over a week. Nice, dry, sunny air breezing through the car. Then I remembered I had an “I Voted” sticker in my pocket. By the way, I can’t say enough good things about early voting. I […]

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Ghosts, goblins, witches, ninjas, Power Rangers (not naked), wizards, princesses, Ace Frehley, bears, lions, ghouls, and a handful of costumes that I couldn’t quite make sense of. And if that’s not enough, you should have seen what the kids wore!
Seriously though, last Friday night was the Halloween Hootenany at Julien’s school. He went as an […]

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So we were on our way back from Longhorn Halloween and we pulled up to a stoplight not far from home. In front of us was a car, an 80s issue Nissan Maxima, with what appeared to be about seven people crammed into it. Seven adults. From the looks of it, it was about five […]

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So I know this guy, he’s the husband of one of my wife’s colleagues (in academia, co-workers are called colleagues). I met him in May at Ari’s birthday party. Very nice guy. He specializes in helping technology-based businesses operate more efficiently. I’m guessing these are companies that rely heavily on machinery or electronics to produce […]

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It’s pretty dark when we leave the house in the mornings. The sun usually isn’t up until I’m sitting at my desk sorting through email. My office faces west. All that separates my building from the Texas capitol is a vast lawn, so I have a great view of the pinkish rotunda from where I […]

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Last Sunday found me backing my car in and out of my driveway at dusk. I doubt any of the neighbors noticed, but if they did, they probably didn’t think much of it, knowing full well that I’m more inclined toward eccentricity than to reason. But there was a truly good reason for what I […]

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Guess what? The Google cache of the page I linked to yesterday, the one with the “regrettable” Microsoft switch rebuttal, has been removed. Did Google take it down because of traffic concerns (could Google really suffer from the Slashdot effect? Doubtful), or did Satan have something to do with its removal? I’ll let you decide. […]

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I’m sure you’ve all heard about the recent Micro$oft switch snafu (thanks to Ari for pointing this out to me). If not, details are here, here, here and here. Good luck. Basically, Micro$oft tried to counter Apple’s switch ad campaign by making a confessional-type switch ad themselves, only the person they pictured in the ad […]

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I can think of few things that would make me more proud. Ari and I just attended our first parent/teacher conference for Julien. He is currently reading at Level 5, which is the end-of-kindergarten level. His teacher believes he can be up to Level 10 by January and, with our help, up to 16 by […]

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Considering that I’ve been wreaking havoc on the file structure over here at /odd/, I’ve built up a little search feature (you can also find it under Etc. to your right) to help you locate your favorite Chatter posts (and I know you have many). For example, you can search for Ari and get a […]

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