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Beer and Nachos
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Leisure and Business Travel Packing List – Travel Light with One Bag!
There’s no question: overpacking tops the list of biggest travel mistakes. Thus this Web site, which offers exhaustive (some might say exhausting!) detail on the art and science of travelling light, going pretty much anywhere, for an indefinite length of time, with no more than a single carry-on-sized bag. via onebag.com Of course, why just…
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100 Thing Challenge – David Michael Bruno
The goal of the 100 Thing Challenge is to break free from the confining habits of American-style consumerism. A lot of people around the world feel “stuck in stuff.” They feel like their closets and garages are too full of things that don’t really make their lives much better. But how to get unstuck? Reduce…
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A life less ordinary?: Asking an Aspie the cure question
You’ve wondered it or been asked or even taken a stand on it: If there were a cure available for autism, would you want it for yourself if you’re autistic or for your autistic child? This question drives me nuts. In some ways, it’s like asking someone born brunette if they want a cure for…
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Neo-Minimalism and the Rise of the Technomads – Boing Boing
By definition, “neo-minimalists” don’t have an overabundance of things in their lives. But one thing they tend to have more and more of these days is visibility. Recently, The New York Times talked to some people participating in the 100 Thing Challenge about how it has affected their lives; The BBC looked into the “Cult…
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Role Playing
My friend Sheryl did a post recently that articulated a thought I myself have had for a long time, though it goes far beyond life online. In both my online and offline life, I have a number of different roles I play. There isn’t a single one where I can always speak my mind. Ever.…
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Dad Worked For A Living
I’ve been thinking about my dad a lot over the past several days. Likely it’s because I decided to rescue my dad’s blog off of Vox. I did an import from Vox, which did not go so well, so I took the blog through WordPress, which preserved the comments but left the media all over…
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Another Sunset From the Field
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Coffee!
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Fun with Blog Restoration
It seems strange to spend all this time on a blog that, in the end, my dad thought was a waste of time. That said, I didn’t have much of a relationship with my dad from about the time I was in college. The blog, which covers from about 2006 onward, has a number of…