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Since we moved to AOL, we have covered something like seven Steve Jobs keynotes or events of that magnitude. Each time we’ve had some kind of horrible outage, almost all of them due to network problems. To be fair, we didn’t handle keynotes well on the pair of Windows servers we were using before weContinue reading “Blogsmith turns a corner”

I was told two rules about editors when I joined BusinessWeek: If any of them actually knew what they were doing, they would be millionaires from playing the stock market. By the time something reaches the cover of BusinessWeek, it has already peaked and it’s on the way down. Of course, both of those rules wereContinue reading “BusinessWeek for criminals”

We got Jack a new betta fish today. I wanted to name him either “Finn Again” or “Finnn” with three n’s. Each new fish would just add another “n.” When Jack said he wanted “to call him Finn again,” I couldn’t resist mentioning my idea for his name. So his nickname is Finn, but hisContinue reading “Go fish”

Jack and I were heading off somewhere and I asked him to go give Niki a kiss. So he blew her a kiss. I wanted to make him actually go over to her to say goodbye so I told him he needed to give her a hug. He crossed his arms and blew into theContinue reading “Fight clever with clever”

I read two stories about the physics of superheroes last week. One was in National Geographic and it covered some opinions by James Kakalios, professor and author of “The Physics of Superheroes”. One of the things he says is “As any fan knows, the original explanation for Big Blue’s power and skyscraping leaps was gravity. He comes,Continue reading “The science of Superman”

Then you’re part of the precipitate.

Niki makes an awesome chicken paprikash. She learned it years ago when she was dating a Hungarian guy and she used to even make the noodles — the spaetzle — by hand. She’d make her own batter and grind it though a spaetzle maker and it would take hours. These days with two kids sheContinue reading “Well isn’t that spaetzle?”

Years ago when I came home from college, I got into a basketball arcade game called Run & Gun. It had two big screens, five-man teams and you could play two against two facing each other. Konami didn’t have licensing from the NBA, so they had teams like Chicago and Salt Lake City and theContinue reading “The Milkman delivers!”

We have another one of those CodeJams coming up soon and the pressure is on me to make it as interesting as our last one. This weekend Niki and I caught up on three episodes of Alias and three Sopranos. During one Alias they showed the Santa Monica pier, so I pointed out how we stayed nearby forContinue reading “Adventure’s his bread. Excitement’s his butter.”

A longtime reader and I have been having a debate about Krypto, the super dog that lived with Superboy (a.k.a. the Last Son of Krypton*) in Smallville. She read my post about Ace, the crime-fighting Bat hound and she took the position that Krypto was already the dog’s name before he was placed into the rocket ship thatContinue reading “You’re the Kryptonian now, dog”