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I caught some of the game on the radio on the way to one of Jack’s friends’ houses. I saw bits and pieces of the game, probably none of the more significant plays, but we had a great time with the kids. I saw a few seconds of Prince’s half-time performance and I’m pretty sureContinue reading “Anonymous Rex”

One of the great things about a wedding or birthday party is that you get to do a crowd mashup, taking people from all the different areas of your life — work, school, families and beyond — and slamming them together. We had a party for Jack’s fourth birthday yesterday and afterwards some of theContinue reading “Walks of life”

We have some balloons floating around the house from some kids thing we went to recently. They are the metallized nylon or foil kind that you see in hospitals (often wrongly called Mylar balloons), not the choking-hazard balloon animal kind and they have kids characters on them like SpongeBob and Dora. Jack said something to me aboutContinue reading “I Love Wiki”

We should have been home from our trip by midnight last night, but we got home closer to 4am. There were delays leaving Colorado and then even more once we were in Chicago. It could have been way worse, but both boys were fantastic considering the circumstances and we spent the whole trip with our favoriteContinue reading “Colorado getaway, getaway”

Yep, that is the question. We’re on a family vacation in Colorado where Jack is going to learn to ski. He’ll be four in a few weeks and we felt we were running out of time to get him started on his Olympic training. The trip involves both skiing and tubing, so Niki got JackContinue reading “Tubing or not tubing?”

I had an odd dream with Jason in it last night. An appearance like that doesn’t happen as often as you’d think it does. I was in a supermarket and he kept sending me a shopping list to my BlackBerry, complete with photos of sushi he wanted me to buy. At one point in the dream heContinue reading “Get out of my dreams, get into my church”

When Weblogs became part of AOL Jason and I had been equal partners, but someone had the bright idea to have me report to him. So my reporting structure at AOL looked like this: Brian Alvey > Jason Calacanis > Tina Sharkey > Jim Bankoff > Ted Leonsis > Jon Miller. Earlier this week, thatContinue reading “Just add drama”

I get that people are supposed to die, but slow it down already! Earlier this week Martin Nodell, the creator of Green Lantern, passed away at 91. A few weeks ago we lost Dave Cockrum (co-creator of X-Men characters like Colossus, Storm and Nightcrawler) to diabetes. My sister once bought me a t-shirt that had one of hisContinue reading “Ah, sweet mystery of life at last I’ve found you”

I found out from his obituary (below) that Michael was one of the founders of a charity called Take the Lead which is “dedicated to provide direct services, support and care for all qualified participants in the sport of dogs who suffer from the devastating realities of life-threatening or terminal illnesses.” In keeping with this week’s “It’s a SmallContinue reading “Take the Lead”

I have all these posts I want to write about hanging out with my old college friend Chris and his family at Disney and my family and my Blogsmith dev team (who is staying at a nicer hotel here than we are), but I’m still in shock. I was listening to the big band stationContinue reading “Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think”