Simple Autism Facts

April 2, 2009

Today, April 2, is World Autism Awareness Day. Rather than make a grand story about autism, I thought I would give you the simple facts to make you more aware. Everyday is World Autism Awareness Day in our house.
Autism Facts:

A Child is diagnosed with autism every 20 minutes
1 out of 150 children have autism
Boys [...]

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Pause button….for 20 years.

March 28, 2009

Ahhhh, the Facebook. A place to connect with friends of old and new. A place to see what is going on in your friends life. A place to upload drunk pictures from your phone.
I believe that the greatest aspect to FB is the ability to reconnect with long-lost friends. Over the [...]

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Dan Ariely on TED

March 24, 2009

I found another TED talk that is worth sharing. This one is by Dan Ariely. He’s a faculty member at MIT. His talk is about “Why we think it OK to cheat and steal (sometimes). He shares his insight to the recent round of wall street woes. It’s 18 minutes, [...]

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Saturday Night Smile

March 21, 2009

First, watch the video before you read on….please. It’s well worth the 4:30 minutes.

When I first started to watch this, I thought, “OK, some tool is going to dance at a bunch of different places around the world.” Then, I see everyone else join in, and I was moved. Some guy [...]

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Thanks, Jon Stewart

March 13, 2009

Jim Cramer of Mad Money fame came on the Daily Show to “defend” his network. As you can see from the video, he puts up very little fight because he’s got no backing. They missed the boat. Stewart asks the question that I have for years about CNBC, “Why do you take [...]

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I love you….Whiteboard!

March 7, 2009

A man can love a a piece of office equipment, can’t he? I mean guys have a favorite chair, an old calculator, a pen, right? Well, my secret love (I guess it’s not so secret now.) is my whiteboard.
I installed a new one today in my home office. And, at the [...]

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File under: Things I should have thought of.

March 3, 2009

How many times have we said, “I could have thought of that”? Well, I had one of those tonight. While doing some website research, I was checking out some design work and one of the sites I stumbled upon was this:
http://www.iwearyourshirt.com/
I can’t explain it any better, so I will quote his site:
“In this [...]

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New Bundle of Mac Software

March 1, 2009

Most of the software that I use on my Mac is from bundles. You get a boatload of apps for $49. It’s a great way for Mac users to get a bunch of really cool stuff for cheap. I think the value of this latest release is about $330 for [...]

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1/2 of All Marriages Don't Fail! Do the math!

February 24, 2009

I’m sure that everyone has heard the stat: “50% of all marriages end in divorce.” That statistic has been a pet-peeve of mine for years. It’s completely false and would like everyone that reads this to NEVER use that phrase again, please.
I downloaded several reports from the CDC and the census to get [...]

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Watching stuff being made is cool.

February 20, 2009

I’m not exactly sure where I got it from or when it started, but I have always liked something more if I see how it was made.
About 3 years ago, I was flipping channels and I happened across a PBS special on Herbie Hancock – Possibilities. It’s a documentary that shows the making of [...]

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