Archive for category Personal

LifePortal — Rough Draft

You know how mint.com aggregates personal banking information? What if there was a site that aggregated all kinds of information? A dashboard for your life?
A single site where you can see how much you owe on your car, when your next insurance premium is due and if there are any recalls on your car.
A single [...]

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The Best Barber for Kids in Athens

Jonah has had maybe 10 or 12 haircuts in his life. (He’s 5 years old.) Each haircut has required a unanimous act of the US Congress, the British Parliament, the UN and 17 lesser known countries. Each haircut has resulted in knock-down, drag-out, blood-curdling fits of anguish. And that was just the barber. Jonah, forget about [...]

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How to Train Your Dragon

We saw it today. It was a very good movie. I highly recommend it.

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HotWheels Color Shifter Roof

I wish roofs could use the same tech that they put into HotWheels color-shifting toys. A light colored roof in the hot summer and darker in the winter.

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This I Believe, Part I

Prologue:
I’ve been meaning to write this for a long time. The first time I can remember that someone asked me what do I believe, I honestly didn’t know the answer. Sure, I could have recited some verse or creed from my Lutheran childhood, but I know that was not an entirely accurate portrait of my [...]

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