Category: Personal

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Flash, the family gecko

Flash is almost too big for his home. He was half this size when we got him six months ago, and his tail is now nearly as big as his torso. Time for a diet, fatty!

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Falling In and Out of Love, with E-books | Publishing Perspectives

But what I fear, as things go digital, is that a lot of the visceral love of reading will be lost. Not the romance of paper — although, there is that — but that physical connection one gets with books from an early age. That climbing into the book my daughter is doing, the way

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Where the Wild Things Are – New [HD] Trailer

via youtube.com If this is half as good as the trailer makes it seem like it could be, I’m going to love this movie. The music is absolutely perfect. Fingers crossed…

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MetsBlog.com » Opinion: Bobby Valentine and the Mets

That said, for the most part, Valentine seems to work best with disciplined, selfless talent, most of whom are primed to buy in to his style of play.  For instance, I think David Wright would do well with Valentine, but I think Jose Reyes would struggle.  So, if the Mets intend to rely on the Gary Sheffields of the world,

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A Personal Request: Help a Special Ed Teacher Out

“It is the glory and the burden of public schools that they cater to all of our children, whether delinquent or obedient, drug-damaged or clean, brilliant or handicapped, privileged or scarred.” – Benjamin R. Barber Three years ago, my wife (Salomé) was accepted into NYC’s Teaching Fellows Program, and left the corporate world to become

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Done with Storytlr; Testing out Posterous

After a couple of weeks on Storytlr, I don’t love it. It’s much too inconvenient to use (posting via web is the only method that works well) and it doesn’t appear to have any active development going on. Also, its primary gimmick of combining sources to tell a “story” is rather limited, and isn’t terribly

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Keep it Simple, Stupid

This fervid desire for the Web bespeaks a longing so intense that it can only be understood as spiritual. A longing indicates that something is missing in our lives. What is missing is the sound of the human voice. The spiritual lure of the Web is the promise of the return of voice. “The Longing”,

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Three Rules for the National Poetry Slam

Eleven years ago next month, in Austin, TX, I took one of the most life-changing thrill rides ever when I attended my first National Poetry Slam, as a member of the 1998 team representing the Nuyorican Poets Café that would go on to become their first (and still only) team to win the Championship. The

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Not Every Conversation is Worth Having

“For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.” Alice Kahn I follow a lot of experienced marketers on Twitter, along with several whose real-world experience is questionable, and one of the most annoying memes I’ve seen is the belief that everyone should be on

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On Memorial Day

Take a moment today to remember those who died, and those who came back less than whole. It’s not just a long weekend, and it has nothing to do with politics.

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