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Ever learned of something just a fraction too late behind “everyone else”, causing an immediate disregard for that thing?
For me, the incident I remember most was the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind album. I prided myself on knowing cool weird bands, then boom, everyone was listening to Nirvana, and I’d somehow completely missed the boat. [...]

It’s with some humor I watch the outrage around the London 2012 Olympics logo. Back in the mid-nineties, I lived in Atlanta. They were ramping up for the Olympics they were hosting. And they came up with a “awesome” mascot which was announced with great fanfare.

Yeah, that’s inspiring, patriotic, and definitely a [...]

Today Ning crossed the dad threshold. This is the point in time when someone like your dad might actually cross paths with the work you (or your friends) do.
Without you having to say “hey dad, look at this”.
I’ve personally never crossed this point with my own father. He has a rough idea of [...]

Last night I was standing in my kitchen eating some chips straight from the bag while waiting for my wife to finish making her snack. Of course, I turn the bag around and read the backside. We do this with cereal boxes, too.
Sure, we discard the plastic tube the microwave burrito comes in [...]

Tonight, since my wife had a fever, I went wandering around the house in search of aspirin. Of course I find the huge freaking tub of ibuprofen we picked up at Target a while ago. But I’m looking for aspirin. I finally open the right cabinet and find that distinctive aspirin-bottle-shaped bottle of [...]

Well, after the illness suffered by Pete, I thought the mouthful of mouse meme might’ve been dealt a death blow. Or at least a feel-like-death blow.
Then came Karen Marcelo. She’s a sneezer with a camera and a mission. She’s also a cow-orker, a cool SRL person, and the dorkbot-sf poobah.

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The other night, browsing the local Target, I came across some Archer Farms Blueberry-Pomegranate Italian Soda. My oh my, it’s tasty stuff. Archer Farms is just Target’s own store brand (aka “generic”). Historically, store brands have been simply cheaper knock-offs of some brand-name product. This is still quite prevalent in [...]