… words actually. I just noticed that at some point in the previous post this blog strolled casually across the half million word mark (according to my super-official word counter-upper plugin.) It only took 3,812 days, too. The word was “this” — it doesn’t getting any more mundane than this, folks That said, I find it particularly interesting in light of the whole discussion rolling around the webs this week (presumably following some suspicious, maybe even dick-ish, moves by Facebook in further slapping down their users with their Open Graph, Open Mawed gobbling of every bit of data possible on YOU, of YOU, in order to sell YOU to their hungry customers — who is, this time, not YOU.) The discussion seems to be rolling [...]
I’m always working on some kind of little side project. It’s my compulsion. My writing and photography. Random coding projects. This blog. And the “silly schemes” project too is a kind of meta-project, itself. Many of my little projects are creative endeavors ranging from those that are vague, floating ideas existing solely in my brain to those with more structure, for which a bunch of work has been done — but forever in-progress, forever ongoing. The September Saturdays Stockpile of Silly Schemes seeks to detail the spark, struggle, and stress of those projects. In each Saturday post I hope to reveal a bit of the speculation, study, and strategy behind one particular project, summarized in a week of thought but a single post. And in [...]
So says the folks at Shaw: our signal is weak. And thus our Internetz be broke. Indeterminately. For a while, apparently. And I, with so little else to say this evening, am blogging via my droid and a(n occasionally) more reliable 3G connection. I should read a book. I should do something creative. I should turn my brain off and watch a movie. I should go for a run. I should clean the bathrooms, do the dishes, or organize my office. I should go to bed early. I should put on some quiet music and just listen. I should make cookies. I should play a board game with my wife. But, I’m probably going to obsess over my broken internet connection instead, fiddling with the [...]
For the entire month of June I’ve been writing a series of blog-a-day posts based on a set series of open-ended questions to myself. This is the LAST of those posts. It’s done! Huzzah! We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming… until next June. June 30th // Something You Want To Share We always seem to be trying to teach kids to share. It’s a mantra: Share! Why aren’t you sharing? You need to share! SHARE! And if they don’t share? Then we force them to share until they remember who is in charge. But then when we unavoidably turn into adults, sharing becomes almost like a bad word (unless it refers to cookies or other tasty carbohydrates) with all sorts of (yes) [...]
Thing is, something I do quiet enjoy thinking and writing about is parenting topics. It’s a big, important part of my life these days. But I also have to fully admit that I’ve lately been ignoring something related to that job, and the ‘other duties as required’ classification that goes along with. See, for the longest time — well, since a few months prior to this whole fatherhood gig — I have actually, diligently, been busy keeping a fairly extensive collection of writings on fatherhood. Some have been here. Some have been other places.
The problem with mobile blogging — blogging from my super-charged Andorid phone, for example — is that mobile blogs always seem half done. I mean, take right now for example. I’m writing about right now. I’m blogging the moment. I’m recording this snapshot in time. We’re sitting in Ikea. It’s a daddy day (why else would we be at Ikea) eating a one-dollar breakfast. We were just out for a swim, spent an hour at the rec centre (remind me to write more on that soon) and then scooted over here for cheap food and a eating-in-front-of-the-tv at the store adventure. But it’s only 10 am. Still early. The day is not yet half done. The adventure might be full of surprises. And now will [...]
