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Category Archives: Family Life
Lessons I’ve learned from running a startup
• April 7, 2011 • Family Life, Projects, Work and Business • No comments
In July 2006, I co-founded a startup along with three of the smartest guys I’ve ever met. Four and a half years later, the company has just recently launched something that I’d consider pre-alpha. Although I’m no longer with the company, I truly wish the remaining team the absolute best. We had some groundbreaking and [...]
Nothing Lasts Forever
• January 7, 2011 • Family Life, Personal • No comments
“There’s things I remember and things I forget / I miss you, I guess that I should / Three thousand five hundred miles away / But what would you change if you could?” — Raining in Baltimore Fourteen years ago, we met when I gave her a wedgie in the middle of our high school [...]
The Great Buzz Cut of 2010
• June 29, 2010 • Family Life • No comments
When I got home this evening, I set down my backpack and began catching up on the day’s events with my family. Generally it’s a story of errands and the like, but then Matthew started telling me about how he wanted to look nice this evening. He was telling me about how he’d selected a [...]
The Boy™ turns 5!
• June 16, 2010 • Family Life • 1 comments
In September 2004, my wife came in from the bathroom and announced to all of us sitting in the living room that she was pregnant. Fast-forward to today, and my son is turning 5 years old. It’s been a wild 5 years so far, and he’ll probably even live another 5 years before I kill [...]
Dog Vomit
• May 29, 2010 • Family Life • 1 comments
“Daddy, daddy! Jack is throwing up!” Jack is our dog — a 10 pound terrier-chihuahua not much bigger than a cat, that we named Jack Bauer for the sake of amusement. I sighed, paused my game of Call of Duty, and went to find the dog. Generally, dog vomit involves wiping it up with a [...]
Observations of a 4-year-old
• May 23, 2010 • Family Life • 1 comments
My son’s observations on the life of a 4-year-old is a constant stream of humorous material.
Those kids and their Wiis
• April 26, 2009 • Family Life • 1 comments
I remember back to the late 80′s when I would play Super Mario Bros. with my friends. The one defining aspect of playing that game back then was that I would try to make Mario jump by jerking my controller up in the air. Of course this didn’t do anything, but it was just a [...]
Is Today The Day? It Is!
• June 16, 2005 • Family Life • 6 comments
Ryan talks about what he believes will be the day his son is born.
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