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Marathon Training with Google’s “My Tracks” on G1 Android Phone

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Okay, first off, my memory isn’t so short that I don’t remember what I wrote in January about the intrinsic rewards of running my own race and the corresponding implication that I would likely never desire to run another marathon ever again. As it turns out, a few months later, though I still believe the [...]

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Plagiarized Through a Translator?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s something interesting: “Running My Own Race,” by LiveJournal user alexbutlervc* (not his own race, as it turns out):

If it looks familiar, that’s because it’s awfully similar to a post I wrote in January. Yes, that’s me in the picture, and even the links are mine (to my Twitter stream and my MapMyRun.com profile).
Now, this [...]

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Introducing The Back of the Napkin

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A brief, hands-on video introduction to the Introduction to Dan Roam’s excellent book, The Back of the Napkin:

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Jellyfish Zen

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Taken today at the New England Aquarium in Boston:
I don’t think you’re ready for this jelly.

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The Tortoise and the Hare: Made to Stick

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a little video I made to supplement the excellent book Made to Stick, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, using Aesop’s fable and a personal twist to help explain the key concepts of SUCCESs:

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10 Questions (From a Four-Year-Old)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

If you have a four-year-old boy, you may have seen this already, but my son tagged me and convinced me of the importance of getting answers from everyone to these important questions. So, here are my responses to just a subset of the questionnaire I take verbally pretty much every day:

What’s your favorite kind of [...]

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Of BristleBots and Folding Toilet Paper: Finding Inspiration and Controversy in Common Bathroom Materials

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on February 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Over on the Make blog (disclosure: Make is a division of O’Reilly Media, the company that pays me, though not for this blog), Phillip Torrone’s causing quite a stir in the maker and publishing communities by questioning the originality of Klutz/Scholastic’s forthcoming book/kit Invasion of the Bristlebots, a project that features, without attribution, an invention [...]

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Too Many 40-Degree Days: Thoughts on The Wire, Season 3

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I know I’m a little late to the game, but I finally got around to watching The Wire. Like most people who start watching it, I’ve become completely absorbed and managed to watch the entirety of Season 2 over a five-day business trip last month. I just started Season 3 recently and, unfortunately, I’m just [...]

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What Am I Doing?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on February 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been trying (without much success, obviously) to blog more, but I’m beginning to think I’m just much better at keeping my posts to 140 characters or fewer. That is, when I say “better,” I mean only “more reliable,” because I’m not inhibited by the perceived barrier of wit, creativity, or importance when posting to [...]

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The Kindness of Strangers

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged on January 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »

About two years ago, I posted the following video to the YouTube:

As lead editor for O’Reilly’s Hacks series of books at the time, my purpose was to illustrate the audio-visual illusion described in Hack #59 of Mind Hacks, in which Tom Stafford and Matt Webb use a classic illusion known as [...]

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