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Why I am still uncool

There’s an old adage that goes, “If you can’t say it, you can’t do it.” Or maybe that’s just a line from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. At any rate, there’s a word that I’ve never been able to use as a verb and so I’ve never been able to do it properly. That word [...]

In History, Language, Memories, Society on 29 June 2006 with 1 comment

Bad finger

Lily: The middle finger is the bad finger.
Me: Oh really, how’s that?
Lily: Cause when you do this (gives me the finger) is means you don’t like someone.
Me: (Smiling) Yeah, pretty much.
Lily: (Gives me and everyone else at the dinner table the finger, big grin on her face as she does it.)

In Family, Fun, Memories on 16 June 2006 with Comments Off

Apple 2c

Apple 2c, originally uploaded by superpixel.

I took one of these to college with me in 1987. It didn’t have a hard disk. It used floppy floppies. I had an Epson dot matrix printer to go with it. It was basically a fancy typewriter.
I wonder what happened to my old 2c?

In Memories on 7 April 2006 with 3 comments

A Christmas letter to my seventeen-year-old self

Yeah, I know, not another Christmas letter! I’m sure you’ll agree this genre is played-out and hardly worth the effort. But this is no ordinary Christmas letter. Trust me on this.
So the year began with a shave and a haircut. There were ups and downs, the kids grew like weeds on a hot summer day [...]

In Family, History, Holidays, Memories on 29 December 2005 with Comments Off

Today is the first day of the rest of your life

The heartbreak a mother feels when her child goes off for the first day of school is practically a cliche: sobbing, interminable hugging, waving as the child boards the bus, running after the bus as it pulls away, etc. Well, it goes for fathers, too. And it isn’t funny so stop laughing.
This morning I deposited [...]

In Memories, Parenting on 7 September 2005 with 2 comments