2008
  (timeline)
Jul
 25
Anger Management
 
 23
If you fart loud enough, you can make your voice recognition software do stuff
 
 23
My Dream
 
 23
Mom’s worries
 
 22
The Flagmen
 
 22
Actionable?
 
 22
Calling in the Posse
 
 20
Exit Strategy
 
 20
Trying to get to Montreal
 
 20
Home Run and You’re Out!
 
 19
Sneaking around
 
 18
Tears of Rage, Tears of Pain
 
 17
Angry White Man
 
 17
Doggie Dumb Dumb
 
 16
It's not Pavlov
 
 16
Roller coaster update (with a touch of purple cow syndrome)
 
 16
No poop chute cleaning needed for eight more years
 
 15
Dreadful News for Dog
 
 15
Wall-E and Me
 
 12
Sad Dog, Happy Dog
 
 10
Getting creative at the gym
 
 8
Do bugs really hump?
 
 8
Chatty colleague pipes down
 
 7
Survived my first day back
 
 4
Bad moods
 
 4
Last and biggest gun in my posse
 
 4
Good news from Newsweek?
 
 4
The “Vanity” Poop
 
 4
Skating on thin ice
 
 1
Detachment over scary dream
 
 1
Piece of cake
Jun
 30
Hurts to walk
 
 27
How to make your coworkers think that you are very strange
 
 26
Pavlov's girl
 
 25
Gone, gone, gone away
 
 25
Rounding up a posse
 
 21
Moving on
 
 18
Loving our artists to tears
 
 18
Ain’t no workin’ stiff
 
 17
not my neighborhood
 
 17
too cool for words
 
 16
Oh, the nerve!
 
 16
Ass wipe
 
 15
Keen to be promiscuous
 
 14
Surgery?
 
 14
Written entirely without hands
 
 13
Heartbreak
 
 13
My so called "vacation"
 
 13
Hikers Stay on Trail. Prison Area.
 
 12
Recipe for curing a bad mood
 
 11
Hoist one for my man
 
 9
Summer fun
 
 8
Fallen into disrepair
 
 8
Reflections on writing
 
 8
Swapping roles
 
 5
It Doesn’t Help to Cuss at Speech Recognition Software
 
 4
Longing
 
 3
Rainy evening
 
 3
Raptors and the smell of nectar
 
 3
Update on Meep the cat
 
 2
First written blog post with speech recognition
 
 2
Writing prose using speech recognition
 
 1
Editing Photo Collections Via Voice Recognition
May
 29
Laxatives, Mmm Mmm Good!
 
 29
Hiker Hits Jackpot – B2B
 
 29
Just for Eddie
 
 28
Be Careful
 
 28
Raymond Carver
 
 25
Girl's Best Friend
 
 25
Reading
 
 25
Forest Floor
 
 25
Surfaces II
 
 24
Workplace Exteriors
 
 24
Surfaces
 
 24
Forest Wetland Meadow Garden
 
 23
A Dilemma
 
 22
The Yin and Yang of University Work
 
 21
The Art of Compromise
 
 20
The Riddle and the Discovery
 
 19
Scared Shitless
 
 18
In Another Life
 
 17
Gardening update: Compost Day
 
 17
How to brew coffee in 10 easy steps!
 
 16
Tearing Down my Beautiful Weeds
 
 15
Cats Write the Worst Code
 
 15
The World of Whites
 
 15
What if...
 
 14
A Very Good Day!
 
 14
Writing short stories
 
 11
Going beyond the avatar
 
 11
Rider cusses up a storm
 
 11
Meep
 
 8
Cube Farms – Worst Workspace Ever Invented
 
 8
The Antidote to Going Postal in my Cube Farm
 
 8
Writing my first *real* short story
 
 7
Beautiful Way to Start the Workday
 
 6
New Office Pix
 
 5
Dandelife Writing Challenge
 
 5
Being Pea Eye
 
 4
Garden Project '08 Update
 
 4
Gardening Can Cause Elevated Heart Rate in 40+ Year Old People
 
 4
Bike Pow Wow
 
 3
My Parents’ Memory of My Dad Losing His Job
 
 3
Crazy Dream
 
 2
Fridays are for Weeping
 
 1
The Quietest Corner of Grand Central Station
Apr
 30
Behavior Unbecoming of a Senior Developer
 
 30
Did Right By Molasses Tonight!
 
 30
Educating the boss about email
 
 29
Pink Floyd
 
 29
Molasses II
 
 28
Hangin’ Out in the Garage
 
 28
What is my problem???
 
 27
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing
 
 26
Garden Project '08
 
 26
Life's too short...
 
 26
Will I do it this year?
 
 24
Too Much for One Family
 
 23
Watching the Suns vs the Spurs in Game 2 of the NBA Playoffs
 
 21
Oh Boo Hoo
 
 21
Un-F***ing Believable -- More Bullshit Bureacracy
 
 20
The River Teaches Me a Lesson
 
 19
How Many Cuss Words Does it Take to Install a Thule Rack System on a Honda Civic?
 
 18
Passed the Poop Test
 
 18
Some Men Get Away with Murder!
 
 17
Go ahead, try and surprise me
 
 16
Paranoid Park
 
 11
When Language Really Matters
 
 11
Ha, ME give advice on the female mind??
 
 9
22 Hours in a Wilderness of Self Doubt
 
 8
Gifts from My Father
 
 6
Life is Full of Surprises
 
 6
Cycling Season Opens in Michigan
 
 6
Forget the Rapids; Getta Load of this Current!
 
 6
A Film Never to Watch Right Before Bed
Mar
 30
The Skeleton in Our Closet
 
 29
Life as a Dog
 
 29
Are you guys really all online??
 
 29
Spring Takes a Sucker Punch to the Gut
 
 28
Don't Be Stoic
 
 27
Am I Exceptional, or Unexceptional?
 
 25
More Dangers of Email
 
 23
Starting Out in the Evening
 
 23
Why Do They Run?
 
 22
Absent Minded, Part II
 
 20
Fine Line Between Passion and Addiction
 
 19
Long or Short?
 
 18
Absent Minded?
 
 16
The Gender Bender Revue
 
 15
Being a Bachelorette for a Week
 
 14
The Smackdown is On!
 
 14
Oh, How I Hate Killing Mice!
 
 9
Of Owls, Dreams, and the History of Britain
 
 9
A Compulsion to Write
 
 8
Dreamed of an Owl
 
 8
The Dangers of Email-Only Communication
 
 7
Brain Damaged Bureaucracy
 
 2
Being a Storyteller in a World of Bloggers
 
 1
Feelings about Dandelife
Feb
 28
Dark and Stormy
 
 19
Dandelife withdrawal
 
 15
Why This American is for Obama
 
 10
Being Green in the Great White North
 
 10
I’ll Take Your Dollar, Ask for More, and then Tell You it’s Not Good Enough
 
 9
NO-ONE Will Buy These Cube Walls
 
 7
She’s Atomic Blue!
Jan
 21
Having No Car in Sub Zero Temperatures in the USA
 
 15
My Car’s Re-Maker
2007
  (timeline)
Dec
 31
When the Mind’s Immune System Runs Low
 
 26
Eulogy for an Old Friend
 
 26
Little Yappy Dogs
 
 24
A Christmas Stocking Full of Advice
 
 22
Coal in My Stocking This Christmas
 
 9
Programmers! Are You Writing Automated Tests?
 
 9
Sicko
Nov
 30
The Nature of Evil
 
 24
Why do I prefer the present tense?
 
 23
Give to charity this year!
 
 6
Understanding a brother
 
 5
Our Gene Pool
 
 
You Said You Were Paying, Right?
 
 
Executioner of Mice Part II (Rated PG)
 
 
Flattery Might Actually Get You Somewhere
 
 
Picking up Chicks in Seattle
Oct
 14
Fall Paddling in Michigan
 
 
R U Kidding??
Jun
 
Just Lie Next Time
Feb
 
Island Cats
2006
  (timeline)
Nov
 13
We Hired the Wrong Candidate
Sep
 
How I Talked Myself into an Existential Crisis
 
 
Fox Trot
Aug
 14
The Dream Job
Apr
 24
Molasses
Jan
 17
Being Homeless in a Frigid Season
2005
  (timeline)
Sep
 
Requiem for a Dream
Mar
 7
Related to Outlaws?
Feb
 
Executioner of Mice Part I (Rated R)
Jan
 
The Chilly Boxer
2004
  (timeline)
Dec
 17
I Am Deemed By Unnamed Co Workers To Smell Bad
Oct
 28
A Very Short Friendship
Sep
 18
The Last Time I Flipped the Bird at a Motorist
 
 11
Reconstructing the Accident
 
 10
A Thousand Stinging Hornets
 
 8
Being Back at Work after Bike Accident
 
 4
Growing Back A Public Face
 
 3
Cause Of Bike Accident Revealed
 
 1
Bicyle Ride with a Fairy Tale Ending
 
 1
Putting my Shattered Face Back Together
 
 1
Bike Accident
Aug
 23
The Homewood Chronicles, Part II
 
 23
Memories of a Loving Grandfather
 
 22
The Homewood Chronicles, Part I
 
 8
Carpe Diem
2003
  (timeline)
Aug
 
My Little Social Experiment
2000
  (timeline)
Jun
 22
Four and a Half Days in the Hospital
1996
  (timeline)
Feb
 
Big Sister Chronicles, Part II: Becoming Tacha’s Big Sister
1994
  (timeline)
Oct
 
Big Sister Chronicles, Part I: Being Tacha’s Tutor
Feb
 
In the Closet with an Older Man
1993
  (timeline)
May
 
Babies are a Real Pain
1992
  (timeline)
May
 
The Hurt Inflicted by Downcast Eyes
1991
  (timeline)
Apr
 2
When My Aunt Went Around the Bend and Never Came Back
1990
  (timeline)
Sep
 10
Being an IT Person in a Non-IT Organization: Background
 
 
You Can’t Take your Software Out for a Beer
 
 
Only Two Hours Per Week
Jul
 29
What I Did after Dropping out of Ph.D. School, Part I
1989
  (timeline)
May
 
Forsaking a Dream
Apr
 25
Shunned by the Geeks
1984
  (timeline)
Jan
 3
Why I Had No Eighteenth Birthday
1981
  (timeline)
Aug
 9