I woke up today, stood on the scale, and good news: I reached my weight loss goal!! Woo-hoo! I’ve lost 26 pounds since January 6 and now weigh what it says on my driver’s license. Now, I’m no diet guru or health expert, and I’m really hesitant to write this post because it’ll look that [...]
Read more →Great article on CNN from Joe Posnanski: There has never been a player like Ichiro, and there likely never will I’ll just say this: My favorite Mariner since Edgar Martinez, and for several seasons recently, Ichiro was the only reason to watch a Mariners game. Very glad my son’s been able to see him play.
Read more →About this time last night, I was working on a blog post for Search Engine Land about the major search engines and how much they spend lobbying the government. In looking over the numbers, I had decided that my headline was about the enormous jump in how much Google has spent in the past few [...]
Read more →Twitter has been a waste for the past 18 hours or so. Republicans are crying and Democrats are gloating, but to me both sides come out looking bad because politics and government shouldn’t be about one side winning and the other side losing. It seems to me that politics in the US has become just [...]
Read more →Winners makes the most mistakes. The doer makes mistakes. Coach Lambert taught me that mistakes come from doing, but so does success. The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that’s a very big mistake. The “coach Lambert” mentioned in this quote is Piggy Lambert, who coached at Purdue when [...]
Read more →I haven’t been overly inspired to take photos lately; well, for quite a long time, actually. Back in 2006, I took photos every day of the year for the full calendar year and posted them on Flickr. That was fun and challenging, but it also burned me out on photography. Not long ago, a dear [...]
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