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Cool Creative Commons Papercrafts
A couple of years ago I discovered Rob Ives' "Flying Pig" paper crafts website. He has a bunch of paper animation kits that are all really creative and fun. You can buy them from his website, and I even found a pre-printed, die-cut kit in my local ...
Clever Disguise
With apologies and credit to xkcd Tags : carrots comics family sticks
Cool Dance Performance coming up
Blue Lapis Light is a local dance company that does things very differently. They frequently do site-specific works, and they seem to almost always do stuff that is up in the air - lots of work with ropes and fabric that they climb, swing on, slide down, ...
Map the latest crimes in Austin with Statesman.com
This is pretty cool! A Mashup of google maps with local crime data. Map the latest crimes in Austin with Statesman.com
Parenting Hack - providing quick and visible feedback
I came up with a pretty effective technique with the kids recently. We're still all working out the details, but I am so pleased with it I wanted to share it. To start off, I think my kids are wonderful. They are smart, creative, and have all kinds of ...
Austin's Most Walkable Neighborhoods
This is pretty cool - there is a website that uses a variety of different metrics to determine how 'walkable' a given address or neighborhood is. I know my current neighborhood is not very walkable at all. Would be cool to mash this up with housing prices ...
Inauguration Day Crowds in Washington, D.C. : Image of the Day
Inauguration Day Crowds in Washington, D.C. : Image of the Day
Fertile Ground goes digital
My wife Julie has been running a very successful garden maintenance business for the past 8 years or so. During that time, she has always been growing at a crazy pace. Now, with the economy slowing a bit, she is getting a bit of breathing room. One of ...
a belated apology
I was listening to a story on NPR this morning, and I am now compelled to apologize for the behavior of my older self. From the time I was 4 until I was a freshman in high school, I lived in Somerset, NJ - a small suburb near New Brunswick, home of ...
Multiple Personalities
I've been lucky over the past several years to meet more people in the Austin tech community, and to become a bit more involved in it. Recently, I was invited to start blogging with the Los Techies crew, so from now on I'll be doing my technical postings ...

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Re: a belated apology
Who is Steve?
Re: a belated apology
The world would be a much better place if more people realized it never has to be too late to say you're sorry!! Man, hearing those names, it's like instant time warp back into the past! I didn't remember that you left early in H.S, too. I moved to ...
Re: Parenting Hack - providing quick and visible feedback
Hey, Steve! Wow! My daughter dragged me kicking and screaming into the creation of a facebook acct. (I figure i get myself into enough trouble with not returning phone calls all too often!) After not logging on for some time, she decided to lay down the ...
Re: Using is.gd url shortener on the iPhone or iPod touch
Thanks for the comment - I have fixed the link.
Re: Using is.gd url shortener on the iPhone or iPod touch
You have an extra parenthesis at the end of your link and makes it not work on the iPhone. You should fix it.

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Something Pithy - my geekness knows no bounds

Wife of Steve

overheard data on XP effectiveness

MemoRanda This is a short blurb - no link available - that says that in a comparison of 5 XP projects vs 5 waterfall projects (all within a single company), the XP projects completed 25-30% sooner and had one fourth the defects of the traditional-style projects.

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