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Today in 1994: A Story
This is my attempt to tell you what I did on January 19, 2012 using only the language available in 1994: I woke up this morning at 5:20, a full 10 minutes before the alarm clock on my dresser was to go off. My wife didn’t want the alarm to wake the baby so she…
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Gateway Board Games
A non-exhaustive list of board games for new board gamers. Gateway Games (1 to 1 1/2 hours playtime / Simple Rulesets) Settlers of Catan (Mayfair) Carcassone (Rio Grande) Pandemic (Z-Man) Ticket to Ride (Days of Wonder) The Adventurers (AEG / Fantasy Flight) Dominion (Rio Grande) Robo Rally (Avalon Hill) Dixit (Asmodee) Dvonn (Rio Grande) –…
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The Glee Freaks and Geeks Mean Girl Graduate
Recently I finished watching the first three seasons of Glee, followed by Mean Girls and The Graduate, and topped off with a little Freaks and Geeks. I couldn’t help but create connections where no connections actually existed and I have diagrammed them here in this venn: Apparently I wasn’t the first person to notice that…
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The Settlers of Catan
I was browsing the Amazon Best Seller lists and noticed that Settlers of Catan was the number 2 item in the Toys and Games category. I’ve played many, many hours of and even once had a blog devoted exclusively to Settler’s of Catan (until their lawyers told me to shut it down). I recently even…
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One Night – a Rock Musical
This is a story about three boys and one girl who meet on a train “one night” This is a “jukebox musical” compilation I made on Spotify which weaves a story out of pop songs. You can listen to it on Spotify here: One Night [Act I] 1. Some Nights by Fun – Three boys…
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Change in Tune
Lyrics are starting to lean towards sticking together, forgiveness, and “home”. In Fun’s We Are Young, they sing, “I know you’re trying to forget…I’m trying hard to take it back…I’ll carry you home.” In Phillip Phillips’ Home, he sings, “Don’t pay no mind to the demons, they fill you with fear….just know you’re not alone, cause I’m…
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For Those About to Make, I Salute You
In the late 70’s there was a DIY revolution happening in computers at a time when early adopters were literally building their own PCs. A few of these builders got the notion to turn this hobby into a business and we got businesses like HP and Apple out of it. Now the same type of…
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Things have changed. Times are different.
Business owners used to be able to pay the Yellow Pages once per year and get business all year long without having to do anything. Things have changed. Times are different. You now have to do content marketing, social media marketing, traditional marketing. Social media is complicated: http://www.businessinsider.com/social-media-marketing-landscape-complicated-2012-5
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The Future Was Now
In the summer of 1988, my parents bought a Chevy Suburban and drove our whole family down to Walt Disney World (the only time we ever went). My dad worked for GM at the time and so when we got to the Epcot Center, we got to cut in line to the now closed, World…