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25 Random Things About Me

Reposted from Facebook.

Inspired by Jessica.

  1. During my last semester of college I was a juggler and a clown in a circus. I almost didn’t graduate because I spent so much time at rehearsals.

  2. I also almost didn’t graduate because I took too many math credits and couldn’t count them all towards my total needed to graduate. A last minute independent project saved me.

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Vocabulary

Jo and I have been using What to Expect the Toddler Years as the instruction manual for The Toddler. It’s a pretty good book, and it has milestones for each month so you can tell how your kid is tracking against expectations.

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Still Another Million Dollar Idea

(I’ve got a million of these.)

This is something I’ve already posted on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc (Thanks Ping.fm!), but I thought I’d post it here as well.

It’s a book called Ikea Furniture for Dummies.

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How I Think when I’m Sick

I’m at home sick today, so I figured that I’d document how my brain works when I’m not feeling well. I still have a headache as I’m writing this (and at time also have The Toddler on my lap) so it may be a bit incoherent. Please accept my apologies in advance.

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Superhero Saturday

You think you’ve screwed up? You should see this guy.

Mr. Incompetent

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Slow Day at Work

This is an actual email thread from today, slightly edited for clarity and to protect the innocent. I should note that Steve is from New York.

From: Steve
To: All
Subject: Junior’s Cheesecake in the kitchen

…courtesy of XXXXXXXX, who helped us XXXXXXXXXXXX. We paid them thousands of $$ for XXXXX and XXXXX, and they threw in a cheesecake.

Seriously, it’s a good cheesecake, a proper NY-style cake with raspberry swirl.

-s
P.S. A bonus slice for the person who knows what the distinguishing feature of a true NY Cheesecake is.

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Seattle iPhone Development Group

Derek Del Conte has started a Seattle iPhone Developer Group at Google Groups.

Derek is one of the two founders of Innerfence, whom I met at the Seattle iPhone Tech Talk. (Technically, we met at the gathering the night before.) He’s a smart and insightful guy who knows many of the ins and outs of developing iPhone apps, especially dealing with submission / approval process.

Should be an interesting group.

Yet Another Million Dollar Idea

In 140 characters or less.

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Sometimes I make videos

I’m really just testing embedding a YouTube video.