The Modernish Father

This is it – the best day of the year. Baseball is finally here again. Sure we’ve had those couple of games in Japan and that affair last night in Washington D.C.. For most of us though, today was the real opening day – a day when we’re saved from the tedious boredom of winter [...]

Here’s a quick look at what I was reading online from Mar. 20th to Mar. 28th:

I’m not dead. I’m just on strike. My computer at work cratered earlier this week. That’s a bad, bad thing when your job consists of designing, creating and maintaining web sites. Hard to do that with just a pencil and paper.

Here’s a quick look at what I was reading online from Mar. 4th to Mar. 19th:

Yesterday was St. Patrick’s Day of course, a holiday that’s okay in my book. Unlike Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day, it’s not just some excuse to make you spend money on cards and flowers. It’s generally just about having fun and acting marginally stupid. I can get on board with that. I had a bit of [...]

The Wife had a bridal shower to attend on Saturday and we were both already off on Thursday and Friday for spring break, so we decided to pack up the kids and head home for a four-day weekend. Being from the same town (and the same graduating class), The Wife and I both have a [...]

Ah, all good things must come to an end I suppose. And so today was the fifth and final day of SXSW Interactive. In some ways, I wish it could have gone on for another week. The sheer amount of “cool stuff” that I was able to take in from the various presentations and panels was [...]

Today was a very gray and very rainy day. The sun managed to poke out late in the afternoon, but for most of the day it was just cold and wet. The rain and thunder this morning apparently made for some soothing white noise, so much so that I slept through my alarm and had to hustle [...]