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ICON 35 Report: Day One

Not the best night’s sleep I’ve ever had, but a bit of cof­fee and I was I alright. We met up with Cory around 1 and took him over to Pan­era Bread for lunch. Unfor­tu­nately I don’t think he par­tic­u­larly cared for it, prob­a­bly because the sea­sonal sal­ads have changed since I was last in […]

ICON 35 Report: Day Zero

Cory Doctorow’s con­nect­ing flight from Chicago, IL to Cedar Rapids, IA was delayed. Orig­i­nally sched­uled to arrive at 9:44pm, the flight did not get in until 11:17pm. Cory seemed kind and gra­cious, if a bit tired. The heated car seats in my wife’s VWwere a big hit. As was the procur­ing of an elec­tric ket­tle for […]

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Unexpected Consequences

For hav­ing the iPhone, I got a fit­ness app.For hav­ing the fit­ness app, I took walks.For tak­ing the walks, I noticed the hole in my shoe. For the hole in my shoe, I bought comfy shoe inserts.For the comfy shoe inserts, I walked far­ther than before.For walk­ing far­ther than before, I tweaked my ankle. I’ve started walking […]

Thanks iLounge & Mobile Line!

Some­time back (long enough ago that I’d com­pletely for­got about it), I was vis­it­ing iLounge look­ing for iPhone app rec­om­men­da­tions and noticed they were hav­ing hold­ing a give­away for some pretty nifty look­ing head­phones. To be exact, they were giv­ing away the RF3 ENVi Nat­ural Wood stereo earhook cell phone head­set. As I’d recently bro­ken my […]

Proof, I’m not 25 anymore

Michelle was feel­ing a bit under the weather today, so we stayed at home and she slept most of the day. I took the time to work on some projects around the house, which rather blos­somed into a larger effort of clean­ing up/organizing our garage. When I was younger, I could have cleared it out, […]