Today’s prompt at The One-Minute Writer is about holidays: Which is your favorite holiday, and what do you love about it? My favorite holiday has got to be the 4th of July. It’s not about eating, it’s not about giving gifts, and it’s not tied … Continue reading How to Declare Your Independence
This is a response to today’s prompt at The One-minute Writer – Do you have an accent? First of all, let me just say that I can not write for just one minute unless I am playing Scattergories. I get like two sentences down. And … Continue reading Accentuating the positive
So: how smart does a coffee maker have to be, I wonder? My coffee maker is a pretty cool gadget, if I do say so myself. It’s a Hamilton Beach Brewstation, which doesn’t use a carafe, but instead makes the coffee into a tank, and … Continue reading My Wiseacre Coffee Maker
This is one of those days. I declared that I was on a two-week beercation on Wednesday but today came up as the day we were going to help my father in-law put the dock in the river, which is never easy but seems to … Continue reading Dock day
For our first ever Surf Artist Highlight, we proudly present to you Aloha Screwdriver, a fast-paced, heavy-riffing instrumental surf band out of Alameda, California. They were started in 2009 by three guys who have been playing music together since they were teens: Donald Bell on … Continue reading Surf Artist Highlight: Aloha Screwdriver
Last week I decided to begin dedicating one morning each week to site building for the foreseeable future – until this place gets fairly robust. Since I get my choice of one or two days – my work days start early – this week that … Continue reading Site building, week 2
This is my 789-word response to today’s prompt at http://oneminutewriter.blogspot.com/2013/05/fff-fish-tale.html?m=1. Warning: I have never written flash fiction before. Little One “Absolutely not.” The Principal huffed up, pointing a fin toward the guards swimming circles around the wriggling morsel drifting near the ground. “What – why … Continue reading Flash Fiction: Little One
This is an interesting video about how 4D printing is now being developed to create structures that build themselves under certain conditions (just add water? Really?) But Rob, you say, it’s like 3D printers just came out. Now they’re talking about 4D? What gives? Let’s … Continue reading Extra dimensions: 4D printing?
Today’s writing prompt at oneminutewriter.blogspot.com is to talk about what is noble to me. I gave it some good thought, but all I could really come up with was helium, xenon, argon, radon, et cetera; I then turned to the dictionary – because I am … Continue reading The nobility of self-sacrifice
This morning I was going through my email, intending to blog something right afterward. An hour later, just getting done with email – I wanted to observe some common courtesies and take care of some business, after all – and now I have to go … Continue reading A word on password security:
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