t’s that time again: time to take a look back across 2012 and see what I’ve managed to do (or not do) as a kind of overall assessment for the year. I’ve decided, this year, to evaluate things in a single “highlights and disappointments” post instead of several separate posts so that I don’t flood…
n Sunday, Kelly and I left the kids with their grandparents for a few hours and escaped to see The Hobbit at the local theater1. It was playing in 3D/48fps and that is how we saw it. The theater was at a large, outdoor shopping mall here in southwestern Florida and while the mall was packed…
ince today is Christmas Day, I am taking the day off to be with my family. I didn’t write a new Going Paperless post this week, but since we’ve reached the end of the year, I thought I’d share the list of the top 10 Going Paperless posts for 2012. I started writing these posts…
e are about to head out to drive through a neighborhood awash in Christmas lights and decorations. When I get back there will be company over and so with this post, I am officially heading offline until Wednesday morning. As I mentioned, I do have scheduled posts (and tweets) through Tuesday, but they are scheduled.…
(Read part 1 and part 2) veryone collapsed after the long day we had roaming the parks. We woke up at 7am and were out the door before 7:30am. Indeed we were at the Barbados bus stop walking onto a bus to the Magic Kingdom by 7:32am1. I think I was most excited for this…
will be completely offline Monday and Tuesday, December 24-25. This means off the blog, Twitter, Facebook and, yes, even email. I have a handful of blog posts scheduled for those two days, as well as some scheduled tweets (Buffer is a lifesaver), but the point is that they are scheduled ahead of time. I will be…
y, oh, my, I have a ton of reading to do! I am probably half a year behind in science magazines. Several months behind in my science fiction magazine reading. I have two-and-a-half books to read for my next book review column at InterGalactic Medicine Show. And to top it all off, I am feeling the…