Category: Family
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Om Malik
My heart goes out to my friend Om Malik’s family. Om was a wonderful person, artistic soul, and original thinker. He was always curious, generous, and warm-hearted. He loved to write and to take pictures, he loved people, and he loved to share his deeply human insights on technology and the world with everyone. I met Om…
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Behold the Schmobile!
Earlier this year, my son Ben (13) was getting ready to leave for a four week summercamp in the wilds of Minnesota. Three days before departure, disaster struck: Ben dislocated his left knee and camp was all of a sudden out. Left with four weeks of nothing to do and his siblings and many of…
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Civil war days
Last weekend, I learned all about civil war reenactment. A few hundred reenacters camped out in a big field in Duncans Mills in their full 1863 outfits, weapons, and tents. In addition to cooking and sleeping in full period character, they reenacted several historic civil war battles. I’m not sure which battle we saw, but…
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A nice long summer
Sorry about not posting for a while. It’s been a nice, long, busy summer. I traveled a lot seeing family in Santa Barbara and Switzerland (some snapshots below) and in between got to see the Automattic gang at WordCamp and our team meetup. Seems like I got to enjoy two of the benefits of being…